【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