Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research (TIAR)

Jihatsu Research Unit

TIAR Fellow

SAKAINO Sho Associate Professor,
Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Can Robots Replicate Human Force Control?

Despite remarkable advancements in robotics and AI technology, why do manual labour tasks performed by humans persist? This phenomenon is attributed to Moravec’s Paradox, which highlights the fact that manipulating the physical world is far more challenging than performing complex reasoning tasks. The ability to manipulate the physical world unconsciously is an extraordinary skill acquired through immense evolutionary development, and replicating this skill remains one of the greatest challenges in robotics. We have discovered that the key to solving this problem lies in the human ability to control force, and we are promoting the automation of physical labor by using AI to reproduce this skill, known as “imitation learning.”

Field of
Research
Robots, Control
Research
Topic
General Robotic Object Manipulation Using Imitation Learning
KeywordsImitation learning, manipulation, bilateral control, force control
Certification
Start
FY2025
Scheduled
End
FY2029

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