RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project Robot System Team
Team Director: Kei Okada (D.Eng.)
Research Summary

We will develop highly efficient, robust, and innovative robot platforms that can operate in real environments, and promote the construction of AI models rooted in real-world experiences and memories, as well as robot behavior generation systems based on these models. We also aim to conduct interdisciplinary research with various scientific fields, including the humanities.
Main Research Fields
- Informatics
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Humanities & Social Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Intelligent Robotics
- Intelligent Information Processing
- Intelligent Information System
Keywords
- Intelligent Robot System
- Human Friendly and Supportive Robot System
- Robot Hardware Design
- Social Robotics
- Robot Programming Platform
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
*Naoaki Kanazawa, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yoshiki Obinata, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Real-world cooking robot system from recipes based on food state recognition using foundation models and PDDL"
Advanced Robotics, Vol.38, No.18, pp.1318-1334, 2024 - 2.
*Naoki Hiraoka, Hirokazu Ishida, Takuma Hiraoka, Kunio Kojima, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Sampling-Based Global Path Planning Using Convex Polytope Approximation for Narrow Collision-Free Space of Humanoid"
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol.21, No.06, pp.2450005, 2024. - 3.
*Tasuku Makabe, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Development of the Assembling System for Structure Transformable Humanoid with Attach-Lock-Detachable Magnetic Coupling",
Proceedings of The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.2433-2440, 2024. - 4.
*Aoi Nakane, Iori Yanokura, Shun Hasegawa, Naoya Yamaguchi, Kunio Kojima, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"WARABI Hand: Five-fingered Robotic Hand with Flexible Skin and Force Sensors for Social Interaction"
Proceedings of The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024 - 5.
*Annan Tang, Takuma Hiraoka, Naoki Hiraoka, Fan Shi, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kunio Kojima, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"HumanMimic: Learning Natural Locomotion and Transitions for Humanoid Robot via Wasserstein Adversarial Imitation"
Proceedings of The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024 - 6.
*Akihiro Miki, Yuta Sahara, Kazuhiro Miyama, Shunnosuke Yoshimura, Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Kento Kawaharazuka, Shun Hasegawa, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Designing Fluid-Exuding Cartilage for Biomimetic Robots Mimicking Human Joint Lubrication Function"
Proceedings of 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics, pp.452-459, 202 - 7.
*Aiko Ichikura, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"An exploratory analysis of the harmonious bond between home robots and their owners in Japan"
Proceedings of 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024 - 8.
*Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Adaptive Body Schema Learning System Considering Additional Muscles for Musculoskeletal Humanoid"
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.7, No.2, pp.3459-3466, 2022 - 9.
*Kunio Kojima, Tatsuhi Karasawa, Toyotaka Kozuki, Eisoku Kuroiwa, Sou Yukizaki, Satoshi Iwaishi, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Ryo Koyama, Shintaro Noda, Fumihito Sugai, Shunichi Nozawa, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
"Development of Life-Sized High-Power Humanoid Robot JAXON for Real-World Use"
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2015), pp 838-843, 2015. - 10.
*Kei Okada, Mitsuharu Kojima, Yuichi Sagawa, Toshiyuki Ichino, Kenji Sato, Masayuki Inaba
"Vision based behavior verification system of humanoid robot for daily environment tasks"
2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2006), pp 7-12, 2006.(2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots Best Paper Award)
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Kei Okada
- Team Director
Contact Information
#73A2, Engineering Building No. 2,
7-3-1, Hongo,
Bukyo-ku, Tokyo,
113-8656, Japan
Email: kei.okada.zz@riken.jp