We create agent technologies to alleviate human loneliness, anxiety, and pain, which helps our daily lives and well-being.
OMOY
OMOY description (under construction).
Yohei Noguchi and Fumihide Tanaka. OMOY: A Handheld Robotic Gadget that Shifts its Weight to Express Emotions and Intentions. CHI, 2020 (Paper PDF)
Yohei Noguchi, Hiroko Kamide, and Fumihide Tanaka. Weight Shift Movements of a Social Mediator Robot Make It Being Recognized as Serious and Suppress Anger, Revenge and Avoidance Motivation of the User. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 (Paper PDF)
Reliebo
Reliebo description (under construction).
Youchan Yim and Fumihide Tanaka. Development of an Inflatable Haptic Device for Pain Reduction by Social Touch. HRI, 2021 [Awarded Best Student Robot Design] (Paper PDF)
Youchan Yim, Yohei Noguchi, and Fumihide Tanaka. A wearable soft robot that can alleviate the pain and fear of the wearer. Scientific Reports, 2022 (Paper PDF)
Other Research Projects
temperature robot
Connecting People
Reinforcement Learning