Osaka University

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

Nathan Labhart 03 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...

ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”

Nathan Labhart 22 May 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20 In this guest lecture, Minoru Asada from Osaka University, Japan, talks about combining developmental psychology, neuroscience, and robotics into “...

ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”

Nathan Labhart 15 May 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-20 In this guest lecture, Yukie Nagai from Osaka University, Japan, talks about teaching infants and robots, attention, and scaffolding....

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence”

Nathan Labhart 21 Nov 2013

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05 Animals and Humans utilize their compliance: muscular system and soft skin. The compliance plays an important role to exhibit intelligent behavior. T...

Actroid-F android gets a brother, and sight

John Payne 02 Sep 2012

http://youtu.be/DF39Ygp53mQ AIST has developed a male version of its Actroid-F, introduced last year. Actroids imitate the movements of people they are watching, and are currently being placed in hos...

Toddler robot with realistic facial expressions

John Payne 16 Jul 2012

http://youtu.be/Quai3SpKD08 On which side of the 'uncanny valley' would you place the robotic child in the above video? Researchers at Osaka University are developing a robot in the form of a 1-to-2 ...