【Event Report】 RIKEN Symposium held on November 20, 2025: "Technology Development and Demonstration Research for Robots That Sense the Human Mind: Joint Research Results Presentation by GRP and Kyoto University"

We successfully held the event as follows. We would like to express our gratitude once again to all the speakers who took the stage and everyone involved.

0. Opening Remarks

Michihiko Minoh Project Director / Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

1. Mechanism by which robots learn from humans in real environments

Yutaka Nakamura Team Director / Behavior Learning Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Hisashi Kashima Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Shin Ishii Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Takashi Minato Team Director / Interactive Robot Research Team & Man-Machine Collaboration Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN
Jun Morimoto Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

2. Visual understanding for robots and connection to the world inside the brain

Yasutomo Kawanishi Team Director / Multimodal Data Recognition Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Ko Nishino Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Yukiyasu Kamitani Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

3. Design of robot support behavior based on the user's internal state

Takashi Minato Team Director / Interactive Robot Research Team & Man-Machine Collaboration Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Rui CHEN Researcher / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Yuichi Nakamura Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

4. Real-time, real-world robot dialogue intelligence

Koichiro Yoshino Team Director / Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Sadao Kurohashi Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Tatsuya Kawahara Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

5. Guardian robot: A platform for robots that interact with humans in real environments

Yutaka Nakamura Team Director / Behavior Learning Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

6. Modeling and understanding the human mind: Implications from psychology to robotics

Wataru Sato Team Director / Psychological Process Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Shinya Nishida Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)
Ritsuko Iwai Research Scientist / Guardian Robot Project, Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters, RIKEN
Takatsune Kumada Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Presentation Materials (in Japanese)

7. Closing Remarks

Tatsuya Kawahara Professor / Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

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