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Satoshi Funabashi
Assistant Professor - AI & Robotics
Department of Intermedia Art and Science, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics, Waseda University Program for Leading Graduate Schools
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Email: s-funabashi[at]aoni.waseda.jp
Twitter:@funabashihand
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Affiliations
Laboratory
Intelligent Dynamics and Representation Lab. (Prof. Tetsuya Ogata), Waseda University
Collaborate with Intelligent Machine Lab. (Prof. Shigeki Sugano), Waseda University
Internship at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) (Prof. Edward Adelson), M.I.T.
Society
IEEE, AAAS, The Robotics Society of Japan
Short Bio
Satoshi Funabashi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ogata Laboratory, Waseda University, Japan. His education includes a Ph.D., M.Eng. and B.Eng. from Waseda University under the supervision of Shigeki Sugano. His research interests focus at the symbiotic and co-working robots such as humanoid robots and robot arms. Currently, his projects are for control methods of two-fingered grippers and multi-fingered hands with several types of touch sensors (6-axis force/torque sensor, distributed 3-axis tactile sensor) by recurrent and convolutional neural networks.
His main focus for research development is how to build deep neural networks according to robotic configurations represented by tactile sensors.
Key words: Symbiotic robots, object manipulation and recognition, tactile sensing, deep learning, machine learnings. Morphology adaptation.
Education
April, 2017 – March, 2021
Doctor of Engineering, Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Advisor: Prof. Shigeki Sugano
April, 2015 – March, 2017
Master of Engineering, Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Advisor: Prof. Shigeki Sugano
April, 2015 – March, 2021
Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics, Waseda University Program for Leading Graduate Schools
April, 2011 – March, 2015
Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering,Waseda University
Advisor: Prof. Shigeki Sugano
April, 2007 – March, 2010
Joso-Gakuin High School
Research Funds & Fellowships
April, 2024 – March, 2027
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (KAKENHI), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
April, 2022 – March, 2024
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (KAKENHI), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
April, 2020 – March, 2022
Strategic Basic Research Programs ACT-I Information and future Acceleration Phase, Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan.
October, 2018 – March, 2020
Strategic Basic Research Programs ACT-I Information and future, Japan Science and Technology , Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan.
April, 2017 – March, 2020
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC1, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
April, 2015 – March, 2021
Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics, Waseda University Program for Leading Graduate Schools.
Academic Activities
Internships
Visiting student, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America (November, 2018 – April, 2019)
Student studying abroad, University of California, Davis (U.C.Davis) (August, 2015 – September, 2015)
Editor
Associate Editor (Robotics and Automation Letters in the area of "Cognitive Robotics" )
Paper Reviews
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , IEEE World Haptics, Conference (WHC), Measurement, Robotics and Automation Letters, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), HardwareX
Conference Committee
Student Member, The 37th annual conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
Event Organization
Chairperson, Global Robot Academia Laboratory, Waseda University, Japan (October, 2017 – March, 2018)
Vice-chairperson, Global Robot Academia Laboratory, Waseda University, Japan (April, 2017 – September, 2017)
Startup Activities
Tokyo Robotics Inc.
Website: https://robotics.tokyo/
Video: Deformation and slip detection with tactile sensor array
XELA Robotics Co., Ltd
Website: https://xelarobotics.com/en/home
FingerVision Inc.
Website: https://www.fingervision.jp/en
Other Activities
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