Reserch on the mental Model for humaoids robots
Development of the Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot
Reseach on the interaction between rat and rat robot

Research Associate of the department of mechanical engineering, Waseda University (2003 Apr. - 2004 Aug.)
Ph.D. (2004 Sep.)
Visiting Research Associate of Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University (2004 Sep. - 2005 Mar.)
Research Scientist of Digital Human Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (2005 Apr. -)
Visiting Lecturer (part-time) of Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University (2005 Apr. -)
Visiting Researcher of Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University (2005 Apr. -)

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Robotics Society of Japan, IEEE

Hiroyasu Miwa, Kazuko Itoh, Munemichi Matsumoto, Massimiliano Zecca, Hideaki Takanobu, Stefano Roccella, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Paolo Dario, Atsuo Takanishi: "Effective Emotional Expressions with Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot WE-4RII", Proceedings of 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.2203-2208, 2004

Hiroyasu Miwa, Kazuko Itoh, Hideaki Takanobu, Atsuo Takanishi: "Development of Mental Model for Humanoid Robots", 15th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control, ROM04-10, 2004

Hiroyasu Miwa, Kazuko Itoh, Daisuke Ito, Hideaki Takanobu, Atsuo Takanishi: "Design and Control of 9-DOFs Emotion Expression Humanoid Arm", 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.128-133, 2004

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Takanishi Laboratory
Digital Human Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University
Humnaoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University
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