Osaka University

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

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...

03 July 2014, by Nathan Labhart

ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”

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 “...

22 May 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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

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....

15 May 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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

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...

21 November 2013, by Nathan Labhart

Actroid-F android gets a brother, and sight

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...

02 September 2012, by John Payne

Toddler robot with realistic facial expressions

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 ...