About Our Lab

Interactive Robotics Lab (Yoshida Lab) has been established in 2022. Based on principle of "Making robots more intelligent by understanding humans better," we aim at cteating smart robots intereacting and cooperating with humans naturally based on profound insight toward human behaviors.

Interactive Cyber-Physical System

We can take advantage of "digital twins" that can simulate the real world with flexibility to create various novel ideas and hypotheses in different situations, while humanoid robots can be regarded as "physical twins" to validate the new theories and to improve the quality of simulations.
By combining digital and physical twins as "Interactive Cyber-Physical Human (iCPH)" in this manner, we address the challenges of deeper insights into human and better performance of interactive and intelligent robots.

Deeper understanding human through humanoid research

The central interest of our research is humanoid robotics. The close shape and structure of a humanoid makes it a perfect tool for human understanding. It is actually not easy to make a humanoid move like a human: behind the movements we humans are making naturally, there are complex synergy of neural and muscular and systems working with physical body in harmony.
It is therefore important to measure and analyze human motions. We set a number of hypotheses on underlying principles of human motion, which we try to validate by using this iCPH framework. Our challenges include the prediction of human motion and behaviors by accumulating those insights and development of robots that can smoothly and naturally interact with humans.

We start our research by questioning what we think is natural, to set problems hidden in our proximity in life and solve them with robotics technologies.
We look forward to work with motivated students and researchers to tackle these exciting challenges.