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.
Notable achievements
Geminoid robot twins, Erica (most lifelike android), Telenoid remote presence robot, groundbreaking uncanny valley research.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Safety-Critical Adaptive Impedance Control via Nonsmooth Control Barrier Functions under State and Input Constraints
Faisal Lawan, Xiaoran Han, Joaquin Carrasco +2 more
2026
SANTS: A State-Adaptive Scheduler for World Action Models
Yirui Sun, Guangyu Zhuge, Keliang Liu +4 more
2026
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li +6 more
2026
The influence of sense of agency on learning structured regularities: an artificial grammar learning study.
Haxhi R, Woźniak M, Wykowska A
Psychological research · 2026