Latest RSJ Awards

The 39th Best Paper Award (2025)

Awards ceremony: September 4, 2025

• The Inspection System for Wall-like Infrastructures with a PRSS UAV —Optimization Theory of Parallel Wire Lengths for Minimizing Wire Tension Acting on a UAV—
  （JRSJ Vo.42 No.1，pp.57-63）
  Zitong Han（Tohoku University），Yoshito Okada（Tohoku University），Kazunori Ohno（Tohoku University），Satoshi Tadokoro（Tohoku University）
• LIBRA-I : A Lightweight Balanced Robot Arm for an Internal Investigation through a Narrow Hole
  （JRSJ Vo.42 No.2，pp.168-176）
  Yuto Goto（Tokyo Institute of Technology），Gen Endo（Tokyo Institute of Technology），Zhenyu Wang（Tokyo Institute of Technology），Hideharu Takahashi（Tokyo Institute of Technology），Hiroshige Kikura（Tokyo Institute of Technology）
• Cooking Task Execution of Robot based on Food Condition Change Recognition by Recipe Description Analysis and Time-Series Use of Vision-Language Model
  （JRSJ Vo.42 No.3，pp.266-273）
  Naoaki Kanazawa（The University of Tokyo），Kento Kawaharazuka（The University of Tokyo），Yoshiki Obinata（The University of Tokyo），Kei Okada（The University of Tokyo），Masayuki Inaba（The University of Tokyo）

The 13th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards (2025)

Awards ceremony: September 4, 2025

Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award

• Active exploration based on information gain by particle filter for efficient spatial concept formation
  (Advanced Robotics Vol.37 No.13，pp.840-870)
  Akira Taniguchi（Ritsumeikan University），Yoshiki Tabuchi（Ritsumeikan University），Tomochika Ishikawa（Ritsumeikan University），Lotfi El Hafi（Ritsumeikan University），Yoshinobu Hagiwara（Ritsumeikan University），Tadahiro Taniguchi（Ritsumeikan University）

Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award

• Real-world robot applications of foundation models: a review
  (Advanced Robotics Vol.38 No.18，pp.1232-1254)
  Kento Kawaharazuka（The University of Tokyo），Tatsuya Matsushima（The University of Tokyo），Andrew Gambardella（The University of Tokyo），Jiaxian Guo（The University of Tokyo），Chris Paxton（Meta AI Research），Andy Zeng（Google DeepMind）

Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award

• A comparative study of manipulator teleoperation methods for debris retrieval phase in nuclear power plant decommissioning
  （Advanced Robotics Vol.37 No.9，pp. 560-575）
  Naoki Mizuno（Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.），Yuichi Tazaki（Kobe University），Tatsuya Hashimoto（Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.），Yasuyoshi Yokokohji（Kobe University）
• Constrained footstep planning using model-based reinforcement learning in virtual constraint-based walking
  （Advanced Robotics Vol.38 No.8，pp.541-561）
  Takanori Jin（National Institute of informatics/The Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies），Taisuke Kobayashi（National Institute of informatics/The Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies），Takamitsu Matsubara（Nara Institute of Science and Technology）