Guardian Robot Project
News
- February 21, 2025New! Call for Application! R-IH Summer Program Internship 2025
- February 17, 2025New! An article by Dr. Shimokawa et al. has been published in Sensors
- January 24, 2025New! An article by Dr. Diel et al. has been published in Scientific Reports
- January 20, 2025 An article by Dr. Kawamura et al. was selected as an "Editor's Choice Article" in Sensors
- January 14, 2025 The demo paper by Drs. Yasutomo Kawanishi et al. has received the Best Demo Honorable Mention award at MMM2025
- December 17, 2024 An article about the Guardian Robot Project was featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun.
- December 6, 2024 The interview article with Dr. Sato has been published in “RIKEN Close-up Kagakudo”
- October 18, 2024 An article about the "R-IH Summer Program Internship 2024" has been published in RIKEN Research
Pamphlet (Japanese Only)
Videos
Demonstration of simple dialogue with GRP’s facial expression robot Nikola.(Dialogue is in Japanese.)
Butsukusa2 helps you to find things in a room
Video introducing GRP shown at IROS2022
Butsukusa 1 demo video
A two-minute demonstration of the first demo machine for explaining the concept, which was made by combining commercially available products.
About GRP
The Guardian Robot Project aims to develop an autonomous robot that can be close to people and make people feel the "heart". Once such a robot is realized, it will be accepted by people and will play an active role in every aspect of our homes and society!
An autonomous function
What has been lacking in the development of robots up to now is an autonomous function that can gather information about its surroundings and act according to its own objectives.We are trying to make a breakthrough in robot development and artificial intelligence research by elucidating and constructing this function.
Robot form
There is more than one physical form of a robot. Depending on the purpose, there can be an exoskeleton wearing type whose main purpose is to support human movement, an autonomous driving type that can move around. There can also be a variety of "forms," such as an interactive type that can accurately carry out conversations with people. If the form is different, the control must be different. Therefore, a certain degree of control is left to each robot, and higher level control is done centrally. The novelty of our research lies in this method.
Six teams are working together
To realize autonomous functions, higher-order functions such as "initiative," "purpose," and "intention," as well as external recognition functions that support these functions are necessary. In the Guardian Robot Project, six teams are working together to elucidate and develop all these functions.
What is a guardian robot?
A robot that accompanies people and supports them in a casual way.
We named it 'Guardian' because it is like a human guardian who adapts to the individual.
