Y. Motomura

About

Y. Motomura is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction and autonomous mobile robotics, best known for developing the Jijo-2 office robot—a landmark platform that integrated speech recognition, dialogue management, and statistical learning to enable natural communication and environmental learning. Motomura’s major contributions lie in creating robots capable of robust, life-long navigation and service in dynamic office environments, combining probabilistic mapping with spoken dialogue to reduce location uncertainty. Their work on Jijo-2 (104 citations) and its integrated natural spoken dialogue system (60 citations) established foundational methods for robots to answer queries, provide route guidance, and perform delivery tasks through conversational interaction. Motomura further advanced robot localization by applying probabilistic frameworks to omnidirectional camera images, and explored novel actuation with a small spherical stepping motor. With over 200 total citations across these key papers, Motomura’s research has significantly shaped the fields of service robotics and human-robot dialogue, demonstrating how robots can learn from and collaborate with humans in real-world settings.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Jijo-2: an office robot that communicates and learns

   104 citations · 2001
2. 2
   Integrated natural spoken dialogue system of Jijo-2 mobile robot for office services

   60 citations · 1999
3. 3
   Combining probabilistic map and dialog for robust life-long office navigation

   31 citations · 2002
4. 4
   Appearance Based Robot Localization

   11 citations · 1999
5. 5
   A small-sized spherical stepping motor and the controls

   2 citations · 2003

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