About Us

Since 1992, we have been focusing the emergent robotics that seeks for the design principle of robot behaviors through the interaction between the robot and its environment. 

 We take the cognitive developmental robotics approach through which we try to understand the development of increasingly complex cognitive processes in natural and artificial systems and how such processes emerge through physical/ social interaction.
 Please check our research topics here, and our previous papers here.

News

- We would like to invite you to our symposium on our new project. Visit here to check details and register to attend free of charge(Oct. 15, 2012).

- We welcome anyone with interest in our lab. Please check here to contact us.

- Child robot Affetto was published in French newspaper "Le figaro" (June 28, 2012)

- Specially Appointed Associate Professor Yukie Nagai received the best poster award at 12th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Baby Science (July 4, 2012).


News History

Prof. Minoru Asada

asada received Ph.D.  in control engineering from Osaka University in 1982. Since 1997, he has been a Professor of the department of Adaptive Machine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University.  He was the president of the International RoboCup Federation (2002?2008) and was the Research Director of “ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project” of ERATO (2005-2011). CV