Our Laboratory members received several awards at the RoboCup Japan Open 2023, which was held at the Shiga Daihatsu Arena from 3-7 May 2023.

The awards at this competition were:

・2nd place in RoboCup Japan Open 2023 @Home Domestic Standard Platform League Open Challenge

　OIT-RITS, joint team of Osaka Institute of Technology and Emergent Systems Lab: Demonstration of  “Action planning using large-scale language models based on knowledge acquired in the field environment”.

・RoboCup Research Award

 International Conference paper, “S. Hasegawa, A. Taniguchi, Y. Hagiwara, L. El Hafi and T. Taniguchi, “Inferring Place-Object Relationships by Integrating Probabilistic Logic and Multimodal Spatial Concepts,” 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-8″

・Robotics Society of Japan Award
　Research Associate Professor Yoshinobu Hagiwara’s co-authored book “Introduction to AI Robots: Making and Learning with ROS2 and Python” (Publisher: Kodansha, Authors: Kosei Demura, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Masutani, Too Chuan Jeffrey TAN)

*The demonstration and the international conference paper were researched and developed as part of the R-GIRO project and JST Moonshot Goal 1: “Realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050”.
*Shoichi Hasegawa, in charge of the demonstration presentation, is a second-term student of the NEXT Fellowship Programme at Ritsumeikan University.