We presented at Robomech 2019 in Hiroshima which held in International Conference Center Hiroshima. Toshiki Sugino, Taisuke Kobayashi, Kenji Sugimoto, "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning using Fractal Reservoir Computing for Quadrupedal Robot" Taisuke Kobayashi, "Reinforcement Learning with Hyperbolic Discounting"

The following lecture was given to Narakita High School students in all grades of Science and Mathematics Course at the "2019 Science and Mathematics Course Science Meeting" held at Ikoma City North Community Center ISTA Habataki (Habataki Hall). Takumi Aotani, "Research of Reinforcement Learning Method for Group of Robots" The lecture was featured on Nara Television.

We held an open campus for students on May 18, 2019 (Sat). Many students have come this year too. We introduced our research content and the atmosphere of our laboratory. Thank you for visiting. Also, our laboratory accepts questions or visits at any time. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

We held a welcome party for new students assigned to our laboratory. Most lab members joined and the party was very exciting!

We held the hanami party around the NAIST pond. We enjoyed BBQ seeing cherry blossoms.

We held 1st and 2nd our laboratory orientations. Our laboratory staff explained our laboratory philosophy and research topic. Moreover, we also held convivial party and served takoyaki and yakisoba. It is a bit early, but congratulations on entering NAIST. We are going to hold 3rd our laboratory orientation, please come to our labo!!

After the graduation ceremony, we held the farewell party. The laboratory staffs and students enjoyed the last time with the alumnus. In addition, the alumnus were giving thanks to their own supervisors.

Juan Esteban Rodriguez (D3), as a representative of doctoral course graduates, made an address in reply to the principal's address at graduation ceremony on March 22.

Graduation ceremony was held on March 22, 2019. M2 and D3 students from our laboratory leave from this laboratory. Congratulations!! We expect to be active in the new place.

Spring seminar 2019 was held from February 25 to February 27 at NAIST. The theme of our laboratory is "Let's find important web pages using random walk". Eight outstanding students participated. Everybody was working on the PC in good earnest.

On February 23, 2019, we held the open campus for students. There were a lot of students who came to visit, and it was a great success. We hope that you take our university exam and come to our laboratory.

As of January 1, 2019, Associate Professor Matsubara transfers to the Robot Learning Laboratory. All members are very sad, but we hope he will be active in the new laboratory.

End-of-Year Party 2018 was held!

Open Campus (Takayama Science Town Festival) was held in NAIST on November 11(Sun.). We conducted following two demonstrations: ・ Robot Learned from Experiments ・ Motion Control of Two-wheeled Inverted Pendulum Robot Besides, the experience-based event entitled "Play with robots!" was conducted in Millennium Hall. In this event, we conducted "candy picking with double-arm robot" or "Air ho...

Assistant Professor Yunduan Cui et al. received the best paper award at the 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS2018) which was held from October 24th to 27th at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) for their work published in Neural Networks: Yunduan Cui, Takamitsu Matsubara, Kenji Sugimoto “Kernel dynamic policy programming: Applicable reinforcem...