About

This lab started at Kyoto University in April 2018.
Previously our research was based at ATR-IRC. We are one of the leading groups in the HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) domain.

We welcome newcomers to help build this lab with us!
If you’re interested, please feel free to get in touch.

News

Thursday March 5th, 2026 :  

Our paper is published in a prestigious journal, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

Ryotaro Muramatsu, Dražen Brščić, Takayuki Kanda. How Can Robots Acquire Venue-Specific Social Strategies? The Case of Robot Clerks Learning Sales Negotiations, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Doi: 10.1145/3772064

Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Francesco Margoni, Shoji Itakura, Takayuki Kanda. Human Perception of a Robot as an Authority Figure, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Doi: 10.1145/3786200

Tuesday December 9th, 2025 :  

The following papers have been accepted to a prestigious conference, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2026).

S. Edirisinghe, S. Satake and T. Kanda,
“Welcome to the Shop! Field Trial of a VLM-powered Autonomous Shop Worker Robot”

R. Chen, T. Minato, J. Even and T. Kanda,
“Don’t Say That! Proactive Support for Appropriate Power Use with Avatar Robot”

X. Pan, M. Doering, and T. Kanda,
“Communicating Object Relations through Robot Gestures”

A. Takeda, S. H. Seo, S. Satake, and T. Kanda,
“Immersive Social Teleoperation Interface With Automatic Ingroup Navigation for Intuitive Communication”

T. Furlanis, D. Brščić, and T. Kanda,
“Robotic Bias and Its Dimensions”

Friday September 19th, 2025 :  

Our paper is published in a prestigious journal, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

Rui Chen, Takashi Minato, Takayuki Kanda. “Wow, You’re Really the Champion of the ‘Resting Competition’, Huh?!”: Robot Knows How to Use Irony Effectively, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Doi: 10.1145/3759157

Joshua Ravishankar, Malcolm Doering, Takayuki Kanda. Online Continual Learning for Automatic Error Prevention in Data-Driven HRI, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Doi: 10.1145/3759160

Yuan-Chia Chang, Daniel J. Rea, Chi-Jung Lee, Takayuki Kanda, Bing-Yu Chen. Designing Authoritative Presence in Social Robots, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Doi: 10.1145/3748262

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