Projects

Ongoing Projects

  1. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST) “Creating a Proactive Society through Behavior Transformation in Co-living with Self-Mirroring Twins“　(Oct. 2025-Mar. 2031, PI: Tetsunari Inamura).
  2. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Designing artificial faces and bodies with functional expression structure（Apr. 2025-Mar. 2030, PI: Hisashi Ishihara), which is Planned Research E01 in the research area Face-body design: deepening and sublimating face-body based on practical, empirical and constructive research (PI: Masami Yamaguchi).
  3. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Constructive Understanding of Body Schema during Remote Operation Using a Cerebellar Reservoir Model and Its Verification through fMRI Measurement（Apr. 2025-Mar. 2028, PI: Park Jihoon).
  4. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Reservoir computing-based adaptation in body-control-environment coupled dynamical systems under unknown and perturbed conditions（Apr. 2025-Mar. 2027, PI: Yuji Kawai), which is Publicly Offered Research in the research area Multicellular neurobiocomputing: Understanding and advancing towards biological supremacy (PI: Yamamoto Hideaki).
  5. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (RISTEX), Transdisciplinary Study on the ELSI of Building Intimate Relationship between Humans and “Co-Habitant” Robots（Oct. 2023-Mar. 2027, PI: Tatsuhiko Inatani)
  6. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (PRESTO), Computational studies of movements, cognition, and emotion by whole-brain prediction of the cerebellum（Oct. 2023-Mar.2027, PI: Yuji Kawai)

Past Projects

  1. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Human-like continual robot learning based on three-level computational energy cost regulation（Apr. 2022-Mar. 2026, PI: Erhan Oztop).
  2. NEDO Innovative AI Chips and Next-Generation Computing Technology Development/Development of Next-generation Computing Technologies, Research and Development and Commercial Application of Ultra-low-power Edge AI Chips Based on Neuromorphic Dynamics (Apr. 2022-Mar. 2025, PI: Takashi Morie)
  3. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (RISTEX), Rule of Law in the Age of AI: Distributive Principles of Legal Liability for Multi-Species Societies（Jan. 2020-Sep. 2023, PI: Tatsuhiko Inatani)
  4. NEDO Development of Core Technologies for Next-Generation AI and Robotics, Research and Development of Empathetic Intelligence Technology for Personal Interaction (May 2018-Mar. 2020, PI: Minoru Asada)
  5. NEDO Innovative AI Chips and Next-Generation Computing Technology Development/Development of Next-generation Computing Technologies, Exploration of Neuromorphic Dynamics towards Future Symbiotic Society (Oct. 2018-Mar. 2023, PI: Minoru Asada)
  6. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST) “An exploration of the principle of emerging interactions in spatiotemporal diversity“　(Oct. 2017-Mar. 2024, PI: Ichiro Tsuda)
  7. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (RISTEX) “Legal Beings: Electronic personhoods of artificial intelligence and robots in NAJIMI society, based on a reconsideration of the concept of autonomy“　(Oct. 2017-Mar. 2020, PI: Minoru Asada)
  8. MIC Research and Development of the next generation AI 1.I Brain type cognitive classification technology inspired by the human brain cognitive mechanism (2017-2019, PI: Masayuki Murata)
  9. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST) Cognitive Mirroring: Assisting people with developmental disorders by means of self-understanding and social sharing of cognitive processes (Dec. 2016-Mar. 2022, PI: Yukie Nagai)
  10. JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research “Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process from Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction“　(Apr. 2012-Mar. 2016 PI: Minoru Asada)
  11. “Division of Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics“, Institute for Academic Initiatives, Osaka University. (2012-2016)
  12. Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, a MEXT Grant-in-Aid Project. “Constructive Developmental Science” (2012-2016)
  13. Core to Core Program “Competitive Partnership on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics” (2012-2016 Coordinator: Minoru Asada) An international exchanging program me with IIT (Italian Institute of Technology, Prof. Giulio Sandini) and University of Washington (Prof. Andrew Meltzoff)
  14. JST Strategic Basic Research Programs ERATO ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project（Sep. 2005-Mar. 2011, PI: Minoru Asada)

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