Koh Hosoda
The University of Osaka, Kyoto University, University of British Columbia, Google (United States), Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan, Osaka Gakuin University, Handan College, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Initiatives (Denmark), Ube Frontier University, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, Judd Systems Technologies (United States)
Papers
188
Total Citations
5,301
H-Index
33
About
Koh Hosoda is a pioneering roboticist whose work spans cognitive developmental robotics, visual servoing, soft robotics, and biologically inspired locomotion systems. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to cognitive developmental robotics (CDR), a field exploring how higher cognitive functions emerge through physical embodiment and developmental processes — work that has garnered over 546 citations and profoundly shaped how researchers think about machine cognition. His 2002 paper on Jacobian-free visual servoing (345 citations) demonstrated that robots could achieve sophisticated visual control without prior knowledge of their kinematic parameters, a landmark result for adaptive robotic systems. Hosoda has also made substantial contributions to social robotics, developing constructive models of joint attention and infant vowel acquisition that illuminate the origins of human communication. His engineering versatility is evident in work on anthropomorphic soft fingertips, pneumatic musculoskeletal robots, and miniature insect-inspired millirobots capable of multi-modal locomotion (270 citations). Across more than two decades, Hosoda has consistently bridged neuroscience, developmental psychology, and robotics, producing research that not only advances autonomous systems but deepens our understanding of biological intelligence itself.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Cognitive Developmental Robotics: A Survey546 citations · 2009
- 2Versatile visual servoing without knowledge of true Jacobian345 citations · 2002
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- 4Designing minimal and scalable insect-inspired multi-locomotion millirobots270 citations · 2019
- 5Anthropomorphic robotic soft fingertip with randomly distributed receptors225 citations · 2005
- 6A constructive model for the development of joint attention212 citations · 2003
- 7Pneumatic-driven jumping robot with anthropomorphic muscular skeleton structure157 citations · 2009
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