Associate Professor Kohei Nakajima (University of Tokyo), a member of this research project, in collaboration with Masayuki Ushio, the lead author from Kyoto University (currently a principal investigator at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and others, reported that networks existing in ecosystems have computational power and that this power can be used […]

Associate Professor Kohei Nakajima (The University of Tokyo), a member of this research project devised a new learning algorithm suitable for physical deep learning by extending a biologically-inspired training algorithm in collaboration with Assistant Professor Inoue (The University of Tokyo) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and they confirmed its effectiveness. By applying this learning […]

The HSR Community 2022 Annual Meeting was held on November 23, 2022, and the research group led by Prof. Tamukoh, a member of this project, received a perfect score along with the Matsuo Lab. of the University of Tokyo and tied for the Best Poster Award. Prof. Tamukoh’s research group presented an object recognition system […]

The research group led by Dr. Takahashi at the University of Tokyo, a member of our project, discovered that rats move their bodies to the beat of 120-140 BPM music, just like humans. They also reported that brain activity in the auditory cortex of rats is synchronized to the tempo of the music, and showed […]

A paper [1] co-authored by Professor Yuichi Katori, who is a member of this project, has received the Japanese Neural Networks Society Best Paper Award. The award is given to particularly outstanding papers published in ”Neural Networks”, a highly influential journal in the field of neuroscience and neural networks. The award ceremony was held at […]

NEURO2022 was held in Okinawa, Japan from June 30 to July 3, 2022. Mr. Yu Yoshino, a first-year master’s student under the supervision of Prof. Katori, received the Junior Investigator Poster Award. This research verified the short-term memory capacity of a reinforcement learning based on reservoir computing, and demonstrated its autonomous mobility performance in a […]

The RoboCup Japan Open 2021@Home Open Platform League (OPL) was held online on March 22th and 23th, 2022. Team Hibikino-Musashi@Home won the second place in the main competition and they won the first place in the Technical Challenge. In RoboCup@Home OPL, participants compete in performance of tasks using their originally developed hardware. Hibikino-Musashi@Home was able […]

The RoboCup Japan Open 2021@Home Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL) was held at Tokyo Big Sight from March 9th to 12th, 2022. Hibikino-Musashi@Home won both the competition and the Technical Challenge. In the RoboCup@Home DSPL competition, participants compete in accuracy and speed to clean up a messy room using the Human Support Robot (HSR) developed […]