Kyoto  University Graduate School of Informatics
Taniguchi Laboratory

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2025/04/02　Materials related to laboratory introduction for B4 students

• Laboratory introduction talk materials   [Slide]

• Laboratory tour talk materials [Slide]

Research Topics 

Keywords: Symbol Emergence Robotics, Communication Emergence, Multimodal Language Understanding, Cognitive Architecture, Systems Including Humans

Probabilistic Generative Models, Multimodal Information Processing, Language Acquisition and Processing, Concept Formation, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Developmental Robotics, World Models, Free Energy Principle, Predictive Learning, Language Emergence, Distributed Bayesian Inference, Multi-Agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Robot Learning, Mechanism Design in Communication Fields, AI and Philosophy, Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness Studies, and more. 

Members

• Research Staff

  • Tadahiro Taniguchi (Professor)  X: @tanichu

  • Masatoshi Nagano (Assistant Professor)

  • Yuanyuan Jia (Program-Specific Assistant Professor)

  • Uriguen Eljuri Pedro Miguel (Program-Specific Researcher)

  • Naoto Yoshida (Program-Specific Researcher)

  • NGUYEN Le Hoang (Program-Specific Researcher)

• Support staff

  • Miyuki Takahashi (Support staff)

  • Ikuko Hoshiyama (Support staff)

• Part-time staff

  • Katsuyoshi Maeyama (Assistant Technical Staff (Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, D5))

  • Ryosuke Yamaki (Assistant Technical Staff (Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, D3))

  • Kenshi Higuchi (Assistant Technical Staff (Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, M2))

  • Yusuke Sasai (Assistant Technical Staff (Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, M2))

  • Zhang Zehang (Assistant Technical Staff (Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, M2))

• Doctor student

  • Takafumi Horie (D1)

  • FANG Tianwei (D1)

• Master student

  • Mikako Ochiai (M3)

  • Haruumi Omoto (M1)

  • Taiki Kuwada (M1)

  • Taisuke Takayama (M1)

  • Rei Ando (M1)

  • Pu Yongyu (M1)

• Research student

  • Yuki Iwamoto (Research student)

  • Momoha Hirose (Research student)

• Undergraduate student (Above B4)

  • Haruka Kitagawa

  • Jiho Ryuu

  • （New B4's will join us.）

Related URL

• Related Laboratory

  • Ritsumeikan University, Research Organization of Science and Technology (Former Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Taniguchi Laboratory)
    Many of the research projects at the Taniguchi Laboratory of Kyoto University are developed by expanding on the research themes of the Emergent Systems Laboratory at Ritsumeikan University.

• Related Projects

  • JSPS Transformative Area (A) "Qualia Structure"

  • Moonshot Goal 1: The Realization of an Avatar-Symbiotic Society where Everyone can Perform Active Roles without Constraint

  • Moonshot Goal 3: Co-evolution of Human and AI-Robots to Expand Science Frontiers

• Related Books (in Japanese)

  • 谷口忠大「記号創発ロボティクス　知能のメカニズム入門 」（講談社・選書メチエ）2014

  • 谷口忠大「賀茂川コミュニケーション塾ービブリオバトルから人工知能まで」 (世界思想社・教養みらい選書）2019

  • 谷口忠大「心を知るための人工知能: 認知科学としての記号創発ロボティクス」 (越境する認知科学)（共立出版）2020

  • 谷口忠大「イラストで学ぶ 人工知能概論　改訂第２版」 （講談社・ＫＳ情報科学専門書) 2020

  • 谷口忠大「僕とアリスの夏物語　人工知能の，その先へ」（岩波書店・岩波科学ライブラリー）2022

  • 谷口 忠大 (編集), 河島 茂生 (編集), 井上 明人 (編集)「未来社会と「意味」の境界: 記号創発システム論／ネオ・サイバネティクス／プラグマティズム」（勁草書房）2023　

  • Others, available on Amazon

Publication

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• Emergent Systems Laboratory Publication List 

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