Namiko SAITO -Robotics & AI

Robots I Use in My Research

NEXTAGE OPEN @Waseda&Edinburgh

Tasks: Food transfer, Pouring Liquid, Cutting ingredients, Tool selection & use

TOROBO Arm @Waseda

Task: Wiping 3D objects

iCub @iit

Task: Pizza cutting

Dry-AIREC @Waseda

Tasks: Cooking

UR5e @AIST

Tasks: Scanning

Articles

2024

 https://morikatron.ai/2024/05/icra2024/

2023

2022

https://www.nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/00635176

2021

2020

2019

2017

2016

Hobby

1. Robot Contest 

F^3RC (freshman's robocon)

Collecting robot

Collect empty cans in the field

The first robot I made

NHK student ROBOCON 2015

Badminton robot

Control two robots to play a doubles match

micro-mouse robot

Explore the maze and race towards the goal

NHK student ROBOCON 2016 ECO robot

This is not powered.

The hybrid robot push it with the wind.

Run through hills and zigzag roads.

NHK student ROBOCON 2016 Hybrid robot

Push the ECO robot with the wind

Climb the pole

Practice for NHK student ROBOCON 2015

Robots vs humen in badminton

The field of NHK student ROBOCON 2016

I was the sub leader of the team and joined as a representative team member.

2. Exhibition in Maker Faire

We made a shining and rotating model with the theme of "fair at night." [[video]]

Exhibited in

Research on the Innovation of Society 

1. Namiko Saito, Peizhi Zhang, Hiroaki Hayashi, Shigeki Sugano and Kinji Mori, ``Innovation by Connecting People, Skill, and Value: A Community Platform for Collaborative Job Hunting,'' In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2023), pp. 1-6, 2023. (in Mexico City, Mexico) doi: 10.1109/ISADS56919.2023.10092110.

2. Namiko Saito, Peizhi Zhang, Tamon Miyake, Shigeki Sugano and Kinji Mori, ``A Life-linkage Platform Service Supporting Diverse Lifestyles based on Individual Demands,'' In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2018), pp. 1-6, 2018. (in Utrecht, Netherlands, Acceptance rate: 56%) doi: 10.1109/ISADS45777.2019.9155840

Other Activities

1. Olympic & Paralympic TOKYO2020 volunteer

Support field of play in table tennis team

2. TV appearance

2022 4/6-5/25 NHK Eテレ 「魔改造の夜技術者養成学校」出演

https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/6LQ2ZM4Z3Q/