2025

IROS Workshop on Robustness

Jiayi Wang, Namiko Saito, Henrique Ferrolho, Sethu Vijayakumar, Adrian Rofer, Yue Gao, Hangxin Liu, Yao Su and Song-Chun Zhu, ``The Art of Robustness: Surviving Failures in Robotics ,'' 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) (In Hangzhou, China. Acceptance rate: 86/118)

https://art-of-robustness-iros2025.github.io/

Humanoids Workshop on Locomotion

Yuki Onishi, Taisuke Kobayashi, Takahiro Miki, Namiko Saito, Junzhe He, Joonho Lee ``Harmonising Practical Robustness and Theoretical Reliability in Legged Locomotion: Fusion of Reinforcement Learning and Model-based Control ,'' 2025 IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (In Seoul, South Korea)

https://sites.google.com/view/humanoids2025-ws-harmonising/home

2024

IROS Data Curation Workshop

Namiko Saito,  Mohammed AlSada, Hiroki Shigemune, Ryosuke Tsumura, Satoshi Funabashi, Tamon Miyake, and Tetsuya Ogata, ``Collecting, Managing and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robots ,'' 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) (In Abu Dhabi, UAE. Acceptance rate: 57/78)

http://iros2024ws-data.site/

ICRA Cooking Robotics Workshop

Namiko Saito, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Naoaki Kanazawa, Marina Aoyama, and Sethu Vijayakumar, ``Cooking Robotics: Perception and motion planning,'' 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). (In Yokohama, Japan. Acceptance rate: 73/140)

https://sites.google.com/view/icra2024cookingrobotics/

2025

• 2025年度 中高生対象:理研AIPダイバーシティセミナー　第4回ロボットが見て、聞いて、考える時代へ, (Link), December 2nd, Online.

• 【第88回産総研人工知能セミナー】フィジカルAI：ロボット, ``Designing and Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models for Embodied AI'' (Link), Sep 12nd in Tokyo Japan.

• Panel discussion in cvpaper.challenge Conference summer 2025 (Link), 「ロボティクスとPhysical AI －物理世界を理解し、操作するAIの限界と可能性－」, July 19th in Tokyo Japan.

• Talk at Robotic Manipulation lab, The University of Osaka, ``Embodied AI: Teaching Robots to Perceive, Plan, and Act in the Real World'', June 27th in Osaka Japan.

• Ada workshop 2025 (Link) at Microsoft Japan, ``My Journey into Robotics and AI'', Tokyo Shinagawa.

• Ada workshop 2025 (Link) at Microsoft Beijing, ``My Journey into Robotics and AI: Empowering Robots to Live and Work Among Us '', April 11th, 北京微软大厦 (Online) 

• Engineering day 2025 at Microsoft Japan, ``Embodied AI: Teaching Robots to Perceive, Plan, and Act in the Real World'', March 26th, Microsoft Japan, Tokyo Shinagawa.

• Microsoft Project Green 2025, Workshop: Spatial Intelligence for Robotic and Interactive AI System, ``Teaching Robots to Sense and Think: Bridging Perception, Action, and Task Planning in the Real World'' March 11th, Seatle Microsoft Redmond.

2024

• Invited from Prof. Fumiya Iida, Talk at Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab in University of Cambridge, ``How to select and use tools?: Acquiring Relationships among Tools, Objects, Effects and Actions with Predictive Deep Learning'' November 22nd 2024 in Cambridge, the UK.

• Invited from Prof. Gordon Cheng, Talk at School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) at Technical University of Munich (TUM), ``How to select and use tools?: Acquiring Relationships among Tools, Objects, Effects and Actions with Predictive Deep Learning'' November 11th 2024 in Munich, Germany.

• Talk at The German Aerospace Center (DLR), ``How to select and use tools?: Acquiring Relationships among Tools, Objects, Effects and Actions with Predictive Deep Learning'' November 5th 2024 in Munich, Germany.

• Invited from Dr. Lorenzo Jamome to talk at ARQ: Advanced Robotics at Queen Marry University of London, ``Contact-rich Manipulation & Cooking Robot Mastery'' June 17th 2024 in London, the UK. 

• ATR International Mini-Symposium on Robot Learning, ``Long-horizon Robot Manipulation using Hierarchical Motion Planning with Subgoal Prediction,'' at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) May 20th 2024 in Kyoto, Japan.

2023

• The first International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), ``Robot active perception and motion generation for deformable object manipulation using multimodal deep learning,'' July 18th 2023 in Beijing, China.

2022

• Workshop by JST Moonshot Program in ETH Zurich, ``Realtime Perception and Motion Generation using Attention Mechanism with Multimodal Deep Learning'' September 23th, 2022 in Zurich, Switzerland.  

• Talk at Honda Research Institute Europe, ``Multimodal Deep Learning for Motion Generation'' June 13th 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.

• Invited from Prof. Gordon Cheng, Talk at School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) at Technical University of Munich (TUM), ``Goal of Moonshot Program: Multimodal Deep Learning for Motion Generation'' June 6th 2022 in Munich, Germany.

• Workshop of "Toward AI-embedded robots in 2050" in IEEE ICRA 2022, ``Smart Robot that is Close to One Person for a Lifetime'', May 27th 2022, in Philadelphia, the USA. https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/icra2022ws-ai-robots-2050/

2019

• WiDS (Women in Data Science) Tokyo@WASEDA 2019, "Messages from Brilliant Women to Female Students and Researchers Acquiring Knowledges and Skills of Data Science and Business" at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan