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2025-1-23 RoboRoarZ Singapore 2025
GV will give a talk at the RoboRoarZ Singapore 2025 "Hey Robot! Hold my hand and let’s go for a walk!". @online

2025-2-12～13 Paris-Saclay Summit
GV will give have a public discussion with David Doucet on "Will robots soon be able to read our emotions?" at the Paris-Sacaly Summit 2025. @EDF Lab, France 15:30~16:15 André-Marie Ampère Room

2025-2-28 GVLab Seminar
Dr. Amel Achour-Benallegue from AIST, Japan will be visiting us and be our guest for the February GVLab seminar. She will be talking about "Movement perception: Different perspectives". @13:00～14:00 Hybrid Eng. Blg 2 room 31A more details
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recent news

2025-1-15 New member
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dominique Lestel, from ENS, France as a Tokyo College Professor for 6 months. Welcome back!.

2025-1-1 Best wishes for the new year!

2024-12-3 New member
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jeff Lui as a visiting scholar for a year.

2024-10-21 Visiting professor
We are pleased to have Prof. Lorenzo Jamone from Queen Mary University London, UK, visiting us for 2 weeks. Welcome!

2024-9-30 New team members
We are happy to have one new master student, and two new visiting students for 6 months from Ecole Normale Superieure, France and Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Welcome!

2024-9-5 Award
GV was awarded the 第17回 功労賞 by the Robotics Society of Japan for initiating and actively participating in the creation and the activities of the working group to reduce gender gap.

2024-8-1 New team member
Prof. Vincent Hernandez is joining us as a Lecturer. Welcome!

2024-4-1 New students
Welcoming 3 new master students, 4 undergraduate students and 3 more internship students this month, as well as a new visiting professor. Check our people page.

2024-3-22 and 26 Graduation ceremony
Congratulations to our undergraduate students at UT and our master and PhD students at TUAT for successfully finishing their research with us!

newly published

Smart Health
K. Kamikokuryo, G. Venture, V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Adversarial AutoEncoder for Human Activity Recognition: application to a low-cost commercial force plate and inertial measurement units, 100537, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2024.100537

Robotics and Automation Letters
C. Tsuji, E. Coronado, P. Osorio, G. Venture, Adaptive contact-rich manipulation through few-shot imitation learning with tactile feedback and pre-trained object representations, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 240-247, 2025. 10.1109/LRA.2024.3497713

Sensors
T. Rousseau, G. Venture and V. Hernandez, Latent Space Representation of Human Movement: Assessing the Effects of Fatigue, 24(23), 7775, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24237775 open access

Machines
G. Hanks, G. Venture, Y. Hu, Comparing Skill Transfer Between Full Demonstrations and Segmented Sub-Tasks for Neural Dynamic Motion Primitives, Machines, 12(12), 872, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12120872 open access

ELSI-RRI panel discussion (in Japanese)

Robotics and Automation Letters
S. Shimizu, K. Ayusawa, G. Venture, Fast Direct Optimal Control for Humanoids Based on Dynamics Representation in FPC Latent Space, 9(4): 3823-3830, 2024. 10.1109/LRA.2024.3371291

In Orange Prof. Venture's schedule, in Yellow Prof. Uchiyama's schedule, in Green lab related events, in Blue TUAT related events, in Pink conference related important dates.