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Symbol Emergence Systems Lab
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The lab builds AI and robots that understand the meaning of words and act on that understanding.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the intelligence that creates language
The Symbol Emergence Systems Lab aims to build AI and robots that can understand the meaning of words in the real world and act accordingly.
Through this, the lab also aims to understand humans and to create a future society in which people and machines live in harmony.
Human language and conversation are also thought to be intelligent functions that society acquired through evolution and development.
The lab studies not only individual cognition but also the emergence of communication through group learning.
Key terms
- Symbol emergence
- The emergence of new systems of symbols and meaning, such as language, as multiple individuals interact
- Multimodal
- Handling a combination of multiple types of information, such as language, images, sound, and motion
- Agent
- An entity, such as an AI or robot, that makes its own decisions and acts on them
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research rests on three pillars: symbol emergence robotics, the emergence of language and communication, and real-world applications of AI technology.
*Illustrative imageSymbol emergence robotics
Humans acquire models of the world through interaction with their environment, and learn words. The lab develops AI and robots that adapt autonomously in physical and symbolic environments, and aims to understand humans through them.
*Illustrative imageEmergence of language and communication
The lab explores mechanisms by which multiple agents create new systems of symbols and meaning through interaction. It also studies the design of systems that make a society where AI and humans coexist better.
*Illustrative imagePutting AI to work in the real world
The lab researches and develops multimodal language understanding, cognitive architectures, and interaction design for next-generation service robots, as well as machine learning techniques for manipulating everyday objects and automating scientific experiments.
MembersFaculty
The faculty of the Symbol Emergence Systems Lab are Professor Tadahiro Taniguchi and Assistant Professor Masatoshi Nagano.
- ProfessorTadahiro Taniguchi
- Assistant ProfessorMasatoshi Nagano
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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: “Robot de serveis Pudu 2022” Marc Auledas-Noguera / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Symbol emergence robotics: “Hold my cup, Baxter!” QuarkyTale / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Emergence of language and communication: “Human Language Families” JFDP13 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Putting AI to work in the real world: “CIMON, an AI-powered robotic techology assistant, is pictured after being activated (iss073e0384104)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Learning Machines Lab): “3d-printed-humanoid-robot-manav-mumbai-techfest-2015” Jasonprost / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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