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Intelligent Robotics Lab
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The lab builds robots and androids that interact richly with people and uses them to study humans.
AboutAbout the lab
Building robots that engage richly with people
The Intelligent Robotics Lab aims to realize intelligent systems that will support the human society of the future, and it researches the creation of humanoid robots that interact richly with people.
Building on sensor engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, the lab advances research and development of perceptual information infrastructure and intelligent robot information infrastructure.
Because developing humanoid robots is closely tied to the fundamental question of "what is a human being?", the lab sets up experimental fields in real-world settings such as street corners and hospitals and conducts social experiments with robots.
The lab's website introduces it under the name "Ishiguro Lab."
Key terms
- Android
- A robot with a humanlike appearance. In this lab, it is used for research on dialogue with people and on understanding humans.
- Geminoid
- An android that closely resembles its human model. It serves as a research platform for understanding humans.
- Perceptual information infrastructure
- An information infrastructure that supplements the perceptual abilities of people and robots with many kinds of sensors and supports their activities.
NewsLab news
Held a lab tour for prospective students (Nov 25)
Prof. Ishiguro received the Ichimura Prize in Science for Distinguished Achievement
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies humanoid robots that interact richly with people, aiming to realize intelligent systems that support the human society of the future. By verifying its research results in the real world, it explores what a near-future human society that applies intelligent systems should look like.
*Illustrative imageAutonomous androids that converse naturally with people
The lab studies the android "Erica," which converses naturally with people using not only speech but also gestures, facial expressions, gaze, and touch. By developing functions for dialogue in specific situations and with multiple people, it aims to create autonomous robots that coexist with humans.
Androids that look just like people
The lab uses the "Geminoid," an android that closely resembles its human model, as a research platform for understanding humans, and examines various research questions with methods from engineering, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Using teleoperation systems, it also investigates the effects on the operator.
MembersFaculty
The Intelligent Robotics Lab consists of faculty members, project faculty members, visiting faculty and researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, administrative assistants, and collaborating researchers from within the university.As of 2026
- Professor (Distinguished Professor)Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Assistant ProfessorTakahisa Uchida
- Assistant ProfessorKazuki Miyazawa
- Project ProfessorNaoki Saiwaki
- Project Assistant ProfessorHideki Tachibana
- Project Assistant ProfessorKoji Inoue
- Project Assistant ProfessorKento Ikeda
- Project Assistant ProfessorHitaka Asai
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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: “Kaspar (android)” 384 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Autonomous androids that converse naturally with people: “Humanoid robot at Science Square Tsukuba” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Social Robotics Lab): “Nadine Robot” Nadiathalmann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Dialogue Intelligence Systems Lab): “The Talking Furhat Robot” Guojing92 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab): “FEAT” Bravegirl2003 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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