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Intelligent Robotics Lab
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The lab creates autonomous robots that support people’s lives, through experiments in the real world.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating robots that work, through real-world experiments
The Intelligent Robotics Lab researches and develops technologies for robots that move autonomously and support human life.
Using mobile robots as an example, robots that travel to a given destination indoors or outdoors and perform necessary tasks, the lab centers its work on the technologies that make this possible.
The lab conducts its research from the standpoint of “experimental robotics,” advancing by repeating experiments in real environments.
The “task-oriented approach,” in which the task and environment are first specified concretely and the necessary technologies are then identified and developed, is also one of the pillars of the lab’s methods.
Key terms
- Mobile robot
- A robot that travels by itself to a destination indoors or outdoors and performs tasks
- Experimental robotics
- Robotics as an experimental science. A stance of repeating experiments in real environments to evaluate what robots can do and where their limits lie
- Task-oriented approach
- A method in which a robot’s task and environment are first specified concretely, and the elemental technologies needed to achieve it are then identified and developed
NewsLab news
Lab information sessions and tours held for third-year College of Information Science students (Oct. 16 and 22)
A student received the Outstanding Paper Award at ICCAS2025
A master’s student received the IEEE SMC Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award at SMC2025
A doctoral student received the JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division Young Fellow Award for Outstanding Presentation at ROBOMECH2025
A student received the IEEE RAS Japan Joint Chapter Young Award at ICRA2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab’s research themes fall into three pillars: realizing advanced operation of autonomous robots through task orientation and system integration; developing new elemental technologies for mobile and intelligent robots; and developing the autonomous mobile robot “Yamabiko” as a research platform. These overlap in content and field, but the lab uses this division to make the purpose of each research theme clear and to avoid research whose “purpose is unclear.”
*Illustrative imageAutonomous robots that work in real environments
The lab deals with autonomous navigation in real indoor and outdoor environments, robots that coexist with people and work in living spaces, and robots that work as a surrogate body at remote locations. Mapping and self-localization in unknown environments, cooperative exploration by multiple robots, and autonomous mobile machines for construction and farm work are also covered.
*Illustrative imageNew elemental technologies for mobile robots
The lab develops elemental technologies such as the architecture and controllers of autonomous robots, the mechanisms and control of wheeled mobile robots, sensors and environment recognition, self-localization, environment map generation, and human interfaces and teleoperation.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping the research robot “Yamabiko”
The lab develops “Yamabiko,” a wheeled mobile robot used as a research tool. It has put in place a standard locomotion control system, environment model maintenance and path planning, a self-localization subsystem, and a communication network among multiple robots.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Intelligent Robotics Lab consist of faculty, faculty from collaborating labs, researchers, and doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkihisa Ohya
- Assistant ProfessorAyanori Yorozu
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “MIREA Interdepartmental educational and scientific laboratory Intelligent Autonomous and multi-agent robotic systems 6” Нечаева Лилия Александровна / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Autonomous robots that work in real environments: “Autonomous Drilling Rover” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- New elemental technologies for mobile robots: “Small wheeled robot chassis displayed on shelves” Mrshaxas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing the research robot “Yamabiko”: “Cow-Shaped Robot” Tessa Bury / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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