Wataru Sato — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

HAPI: A Model for Learning Robot Facial Expressions from Human Preferences

Dongsheng Yang, Qianying Liu, Wataru Sato, Takashi Minato, Chaoran Liu, Shin'ya Nishida

IROS 2025

Automatic robotic facial expression generation is crucial for human–robot interaction (HRI), as handcrafted methods based on fixed joint configurations often yield rigid and unnatural behaviors. Although recent automated techniques reduce the need for manual tuning, they tend to fall short by not ad

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2023

Morphological Characteristics That Enable Stable and Efficient Walking in Hexapod Robot Driven by Reflex-based Intra-limb Coordination

Wataru Sato, Jun Nishii, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe, Dai Owaki

ICRA 2023poster

Insects exhibit adaptive walking behavior in an unstructured environment, despite having only an extremely small number of neurons (105 to 106). This suggests that not only the brain nervous system but also properties of the physical body, such as the morphological characteristics, play an essential…

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