Department of Medical and Robotic Engineering Design,
&
Department of Applied Electronics (Concurrent),
Faculty of Advanced Engineering,
&
Division of Implementation of Sustainable Technology in Society (Concurrent),
Research Institute for Science and Technology, Organization for Research Promotion
Tokyo University of Science (TUS),
6-3-1, Niijuku, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
Email: akishige.yuguchi<at>rs.tus.ac.jp
IEEE
IEEE-RAS (The Robotics and Automation Society)
SIGdial (The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue)
RSJ (The Robotics Society of Japan)
JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Graduate School of Information Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Supervisor: Prof. Tsukasa Ogasawara (Current: Professor Emeritus)
Department of Information Science,
Graduate School of Information Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Supervisor: Prof. Tsukasa Ogasawara (Current: Professor Emeritus)
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems,
Faculty of Informatics and Engineering,
The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan
Supervisor: Prof. Masahide Kaneko (Current: Professor Emeritus)
Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team, Guardian Robot Project,
RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan
Engineering Product Development (EPD) Pillar,
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan
Intelligent Robot Dialogue Laboratory,
Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team, Guardian Robot Project,
RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan
Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team, Guardian Robot Project,
RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan
Department of Medical Technologist,
Japan Medical Tech's College, Japan
Robotics Laboratory,
Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
Robotics Laboratory,
Graduate School of Information Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Graduate School of Information Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
for Mayuki Toyoda, Akishige Yuguchi, Sung-Gwi Cho, Yuki Sato, Jun Takamatsu, Atsushi Nakazawa, Takahiro Wada, and Tsukasa Ogasawara, "A Robot Hand Reproducing the Beginning of Humanitude’s Touch Motion,"
in the 2023 JSME Annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH2023), Nagoya, Japan.
for Akishige Yuguchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Koichiro Yoshino, Sung-Gwi Cho, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara, "Comparison of the Beginning of Touching Motions by Humanitude Experts and Novices Through the Contact Surface of an FTIR Sensing System,"
in the 24th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2023), Niigata, Japan [Website].
for Nobuhiro Ueda, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Sadao Kurohashi, and Koichiro Yoshino,
"Construction of Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Comprehensive Reference Analysis in the Real World,"
in the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2023), Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan [Website].
for Shota Kanezaki, Kanta Watanabe, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Marie Katsurai, and Koichiro Yoshino (Team ToastedMarshmallow),
"Multimodal Dialogue System Based on Predictions of Dialogue Act and Entrainment,"
in the 5th Dialogue System Live Competition in part of the 13th Dialogue System Symposium, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan [Website].
for Taiki Nakamura, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, and Koichiro Yoshino,
"Operative Action Captioning for Estimating System Actions,"
in the 253rd IPSJ Meeting for Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIGNL), Kyoto, Japan [Website].
for Mayuki Toyoda, Akishige Yuguchi, Sung-Gwi Cho, Yuki Sato, Jun Takamatsu, Atsushi Nakazawa, Takahiro Wada, and Tsukasa Ogasawara, "Analysis of Hand Contact Surface for Touching Motion Toward End-effector to Reproduce Humanitude’s Touching,"
in the 22nd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2021), online, Japan.
for Tetsuya Sano, Akishige Yuguchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara,
"Human-like Eye Movement Behaviors for Android Robots Based on Human Observation,"
in the 19th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2018), Osaka, Japan.
for Akishige Yuguchi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Ming Ding, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara,
"Gaze Calibration for Human-Android Eye Contact Using a Single Camera,"
in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2017), Macau SAR, China.
for Team NAIST-Panasonic, in Nagoya, Japan.
at The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan.
in the 25th Intelligent Robot Contest 2013, Sendai, Japan [YouTube].
in the 25th Intelligent Robot Contest 2013, Sendai, Japan [YouTube].
from Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Project theme: Operation of home appliances for cooking using service robots and ontology
Budget: 550,000 JPY
from AIP Network Laboratory, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan.
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Project theme: Understanding and realization of eye behaviors using android robots for attentive listening
Budget: 1,000,000 JPY
RSJ International Committee
9th Workshop of Robotics Ongoing Breakthroughs (ROOB2025)
2025 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2025)
2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025)
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
2023 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2023)
16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2026)
4th International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2026)
15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2025)
2025 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2025)
Augmented Humans International Conference 2024 (AHs 2024)
14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2024)
3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2024)
13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023)
Augmented Humans International Conference 2023 (AHs 2023)
Augmented Humans International Conference 2022 (AHs 2022)
2nd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2022)
1st International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2020)
2025 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2025)
Cooperation between Human and Machine
2024 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2024)
Cooperation between Human and Machine
2023 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2023)
Cooperation between Human and Machine
International Sessions in the 43rd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ 2025)
2025 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2025)
International Sessions in the 42nd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ 2024)
2024 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2024)
2023 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2023)
23rd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2022)
Journal paper:
Scientific Reports
2024: 1 paper
Advanced Robotics (International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan)
2023: 1 paper (Full paper)
2022: 1 paper (Full paper)
Conference paper:
2026 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2026): 2 papers
34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025): 1 paper
15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2025): 2 papers
2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2024): 1 paper
3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2024): 1 paper
14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2024): 2 papers
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2023): 1 paper
11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023): 1 paper
32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023): 1 paper
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023): 1 paper
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023): 1 paper
Augmented Humans International Conference 2023 (AHs 2023): 1 paper
13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023): 2 papers
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023): 1 paper
14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022): 2 papers
10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2022): 2 papers
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022): 3 papers
2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2022): 1 paper
2022 International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2022): 1 paper
Late-Breaking Reports Track of 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022): 1 paper
9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021): 2 papers
30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021): 3 papers
2020 International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2020): 1 paper
2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ARM 2019): 1 paper
All Japan Micromouse Competition (44th)
All Japan Student Micromouse Contest (39th, 40th)
East Japan Regional Micromouse Tournament (40th)
Japan Open (National) Competition
Regional Competitions in Kansai Block Area
Regional Competitions in Kanto Block Area