CREATE ADVENTOR & UWaterloo MME Presents: Prof. Eiichi Yoshida

Join us in person, or online for a talk by Prof. Eiichi Yoshida from Tokyo University of Science. 

Link to Talk

Abstract: Recent advent of artificial intelligence and the rapid progress on motion capacity of humanoid robots are bringing a strong attention expecting industrial and social applications. Despite their highly dynamic motion ability, humanoid robots need further improvements in motions involving contact with their body. We humans generate such contact-rich motions with ease while solving the complex problem of combined discrete contact sequence and continuous dynamic motions is extremely hard. In this talk, I will present ongoing research to address the following challenges: collecting whole-body contact motion data from humans, learning behaviors from those data and synthesizing multi-contact humanoid motions. 

Biography: Prof. Eiichi Yoshida is a Professor at the Tokyo University of Science since 2022. He received PhD. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1996. He then joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, and served as Co-Director of AIST-CNRS Joint Robotics Laboratory from 2004 to 2021, at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France and AIST, Japan. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received awards including Best Paper Award in Advanced Robotics Journal, and the honor of a national medal from the French Government. His research interests include humanoid robotics, human modeling, and task and motion planning for robots.