Activities in NEDO Human Support Robots Project

An Integrated Database System for Full-Length Human cDNA in NEDO Full-Length Human cDNA Sequencing Project

Support for the Human Cancer Genome Project.

IN“ANOPENLETTERTOCANCERRESEARCHERS” (Letters, 21 Oct., p. 439), S. J. Elledge and G. J. Hannon questioned the wisdom of asking the NIH to undertake the Human Cancer Genome Project (HCGP) (1) recently proposed by a National Cancer Institute Working Group, of which we were members. Elledge and Hannon object to the HCGP on the grounds that the project is unlikely to achieve its goals, that the exp...

Cyber Assist Project for Situated Human Support

This paper introduces some of the projects conducted at the Advanced Institute of Science in Japan strongly related to the field of distributed multimedia systems. Among several national strategies of AIST, a main target is to create technologies that contribute to make society keep up with this information age so that people will feel safe to live. At the same time, we are cultivating a new in...

Grounding of Human Environments and Activities for Autonomous Robots

With the recent proliferation of human-oriented robotic applications in domestic and industrial scenarios, it is vital for robots to continually learn about their environments and about the humans they share their environments with. In this paper, we present a novel, online, incremental framework for unsupervised symbol grounding in real-world, human environments for autonomous robots. We demon...

Sequential Human Behavior Recognition for Cooking-Support Robots

Recent advances in information technology are making electric household appliances computerized and networked. If our environments could intuit our activities, e.g., by sensors, novel services taking anticipated actions into account would become possible. We propose activity recognition that infers a subject’s next action based on previously observed behaviors. We developed a cooking-support ro...