Akishige Yuguchi
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
Papers
13
Total Citations
56
H-Index
5
About
Akishige Yuguchi is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, android communication, and assistive care robotics. Based at the intersection of social robotics and human-centered design, Yuguchi has made notable contributions across three interconnected domains: touch-based care delivery, expressive android behavior, and intelligent home appliance operation for service robots. Among his most impactful contributions is a series of studies examining how robots can replicate pleasant stroke touch — a fundamental caregiving technique — with results demonstrating that robot-delivered touch produces subjective and physiological emotional responses comparable to human touch, even in older adult populations. This work directly addresses critical caregiver shortages in aging societies. Yuguchi has also advanced the naturalness of android communication through rigorous evaluation of eye contact, blinking, and gaze calibration behaviors, helping establish frameworks for more lifelike human-robot interaction. Additionally, his development of ontology-based frameworks and motion primitives enables service robots to operate diverse home appliances more flexibly and autonomously. With a growing citation record across publications from 2017 to 2024, Yuguchi's research reflects a consistent commitment to making robots more socially capable, physically expressive, and practically useful in everyday human environments — particularly for vulnerable populations.
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Top Papers
- 1Pleasant Stroke Touch on Human Back by a Human and a Robot7 citations · 2023
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- 3Delivery of pleasant stroke touch via robot in older adults6 citations · 2024
- 4Quantification of Elegant Motions for Receptionist Android Robot5 citations · 2017
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- 9Gaze calibration for human-android eye contact using a single camera3 citations · 2017
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