🔬 University#29 Osaka, Japan· Est. 1994
Osaka University — Intelligent Robotics Lab (Hiroshi Ishiguro)
World leader in android (human-like) robotics. Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro's lab created Geminoid — a robot replica of himself — and Erica, one of the most lifelike robots ever built.
android robotssocial robotshuman-robot interactionteleoperation
Notable achievements
Geminoid robot twins, Erica (most lifelike android), Telenoid remote presence robot, groundbreaking uncanny valley research.
Notable work
GeminoidErica androidTelenoid
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
HRI
Open access
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang
2026
HRI
Open access
Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations
Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GesVLA: Gesture-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Embedded Representations
Wenxuan Guo, Ziyuan Li, Meng Zhang +7 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1 more
2026