| Jan 10, 2026 | I will give an invited talk at the workshop on Addressing the Societal Challenge of Aging through Integrated Robotic Support Systems at the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2026) in Cancun, Mexico. |
| Jan 05, 2026 | I have been appointed as Associate Editor for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS2026). |
| Dec 15, 2025 | I have joined the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer). |
| Dec 10, 2025 | I have been appointed as Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Robotics and AI in Industrial Robotics and Automation Section. |
| Nov 01, 2025 | One paper was accepted to the 2026 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2026), to be held in Cancun, Mexico. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Two papers were accepted to the 2025 SICE Festival with Annual Conference (SICE FES 2025), to be held in September 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Our paper Enhancing Object Search in Indoor Spaces via Personalized Object-Factored Ontologies has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) as an oral presentation. |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Two papers were accepted to the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), to be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. |
| Jun 08, 2025 | I participated in and presented six papers at the Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2025 (ROBOMECH 2025) held in Yamagata, Japan. |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Our paper titled “Real-Time Geometric-Registration-Based Precision Localization for Autonomous Docking in Unstructured Factory Environment” was accepted to IEEE RA-L. |
| Mar 23, 2025 | I will serve on the organizing committee for IEEE ICRA 2025. I will also organize and co-chair the IEEE ICRA EXPO 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
| Mar 01, 2025 | I will serve on the organizing committee for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) and chair the IROS EXPO 2025 in Hangzhou, China. |
| Feb 08, 2025 | One paper titled “Somnomat Care: A Novel Robotic Bed for Vestibular Stimulation in Nursing Homes” was accepted to the 2025 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), to be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on May 12-16, 2025. |
| Jan 26, 2025 | Our paper titled “Open Vocabulary Object Search Utilizing Large Language Models and Fuzzy Inferencing” presented at the IEEE/SICE (SII2025) in Munich won the Best Student Paper Award. |
| Nov 08, 2024 | Two papers accepted for IEEE (SII2025) to be held in Munich, Germany in January 2025. |
| Nov 03, 2024 | I have been appointed as Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. |
| Sep 20, 2024 | I will serve as an Associate Editor for the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2025). |
| Sep 02, 2024 | I participated in the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2024) in Pasadena, California, USA. Our paper on avatar teleoperation was presented during the conference. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Our paper was accepted to the IEEE Access journal. |
| Jun 03, 2024 | One paper was accepted to the IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2024). |
| May 28, 2024 | I have been appointed as Junior Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Intelligence & Robotics. |
| May 20, 2024 | Our paper titled “Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential” was accepted to IEEE RA-L. |
| May 19, 2024 | I participated in IEEE ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, USA, and presented our work titled Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential. |
| May 05, 2024 | Our paper titled “A method for detecting wear and damage on railcar wheel tread surface using a combination of laser measurement and machine vision” was accepted to the JSME Mechanical Engineering Journal. |
| May 02, 2024 | Our group presented eight papers at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan: 1 RAL paper, 1 late-breaking paper, 1 video paper, and 5 ICRA EXPO papers. |
| May 02, 2024 | I will serve on the organizing committee for IEEE ICRA 2024 and help organize the IEEE ICRA EXPO 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Our paper titled “Automatic inspection of wheel surface defects using a combination of laser sensors and machine vision” was accepted to the SICE JCMSI journal. |
| Feb 25, 2024 | I got the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Communication, Computing and Data Security, (IC-CCDS) 2024, Mumbai, India. |
| May 14, 2023 | I am appointed as the Planning Committee Chair for the 41st Robot Society of Japan (RSJ) Annual Conference on Robotics 第41回日本ロボット学会学術講演会（RSJ2023） to be held in Sendai. |
| Mar 17, 2022 | I gave an invited lecture at the 27th Robotics Symposia 2022 The title of my talk was “Robot Exploration and Mapping of Unstructured Indoor Environments using segment-based Clustering of Range Data with Uncertainty” |
| Sep 09, 2021 | I received the SICE Best Journal Paper Award for our publication in the Journal of Control, Measurements, and System Integration (Taylor and Francis). Paper Title: Line Segment Extraction and Polyline Mapping for Mobile Robots in Indoor Structured Environments Using Range Sensors |