Guardian Robot Project
News
- November 14, 2025New! An article by Dr. Sato and his colleagues has been published in Frontiers in Nutrition
- November 12, 2025New! An article by Nguyen et al. has been published in TOMM
- November 7, 2025New! Papers authored by trainee Inazumi, researcher Kruengkrai, Team Director Yoshino, and other members from the Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team have been presented at top-tier conferences, including ACL.
- October 23, 2025 A research by Mr. Hou et al. was presented at ICCV2025
- October 1, 2025 The robot “aiai” is featured in a video
- September 2, 2025 ”Indy” was featured on TV TOKYO's “Ohasuta”.
- August 27, 2025 An article by Dr. Tang et al. has been published in Sensors
- August 8, 2025 An article by Dr. Tang et al. has been published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports
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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.
