Our goal is to contribute to our society by proposing AI-based algorithms for robots that can coexist with humans.

To achieve this goal, we believe the following three sub-goals need to be completed:

•  1. Robots need to understand humans.
  •      ex) Action recognition, Emotion recognition, Human pose estimation.
•  2. Robots need to behace like humans.
•      ex) Task and motion planning, Human-like motion generation, Imitaion Learning.
•  3. Robots need to interact with humans.
•      ex) Behavior planning for natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Human-Human Interation to Human-Robot Interaction.
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• To this end, we research AI-based Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Motion Planning algorithms.
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• Note that our final objective is to build a system for natural HRI, by making good use of advanced AI-based perceptual abilities to plan appropriate robotic behavior.