Awards

2026 · Award

Best Poster Award, IEEE RoboSoft 2026 Workshop: "Living with Robots Safely: Embodying Asimov's First Law through Soft Robotics."

2021 · Award

Best Full Paper Award, ACM IDC 2021

T. Tseng, Y. Murai, N. Freed, D. Gelosi, T. D. Ta, and Y. Kawahara, PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning

2018 · Award

Best Demo Award, ACM UbiComp 2018

D. Li, K. Saito, T. Umedachi, T. D. Ta, and Y. Kawahara, Origami Robots with Flexible Circuit Sheets

2016 · Award

First Prize, SBCloud Hackathon (SoftBank)

2013 · Award

Champion, Tokyo Start-up Weekend Contest

2012 · Award

Runner-up, Vietnam Microsoft Imagine Cup

Press Releases

2025 · Press Release

Learning the Nonlinear Dynamics of Soft Actuators with AI: Hysteresis-based Reservoir Computing Paving the Way for Robotic Grippers Capable of Delicate Movements

2025 · Press Release

マルチエージェントAIによるゼロショット言語駆動ロボット把持システム開発～自然言語の指示に対応、実環境での安全なロボット操作を実現～

Media Coverage

2017 · Media

Snake-like soft robot featured on IEEE Spectrum Video Friday

2013 · Media

Research outputs have appeared in major HCI and robotics venues (ACM CHI, UbiComp, ICRA, IROS).