Biography
Dr Hidenobu Sumioka is the leader of the Presence Media Research Group in Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, part of Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan, where he has conducted research for over ten years. He received a PhD in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 2008. Following the completion of his doctoral studies, Dr Sumioka served as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), subsequently becoming a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2009 under the direction of Professor Rolf Pfeifer. His research interests include human-robot touch interaction, application of social robots for elderly care, and physiological influence of social robots on humans.
Keynote Presentation (2025) | Social Robots For All Stakeholders in Elderly Care
