On March 20, the Neumorph Center and Collaborative Research Center, National Institute of Technology, Ube College signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with an aim of enhancing education and research activities in the fields of materials and AI.
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New promotion video is avaibale
On February 27, 2023, we uploaded a new promotion video of the center. We have tried to make the video that is easy to understand for high school students and technical college students who are aiming to go on to our university. Please watch it.
Introduced in a newspaper Nikkei Shinbun
On July 26th, the news that the director, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka received the honorary degree of the Suranaree University of Technology by the princess of Thailand was introduced in the newspaper Nikkei Shinbun.
The news is available here.
Our paper was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
On June 20th, a paper authored by the center members, Prof. Nomura and Prof. Morie entitled Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks based on Time-To-First-Spike Encoding against Adversarial Attacks was published in an academic journal, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.
The paper is available here.
Two papers were published in Nonlinear Theory and Its Application, IEICE
On April 1st, two papers submitted by the center were published in an academic journal, Nonlinear Theory and Its Application, IEICE.
The papers are available from the following links:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/nolta/13/2/13_349/_article/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/nolta/13/2/13_397/_article
RoboCup Japan Open @Home OPL 2nd Place
Hibikino-Musashi@Home, supervised by the vice director Prof. Tamukoh, participated in the RoboCup Japan Open 2021 @Home Open Platform League (OPL) held on March 22nd-23rd and won 2nd place in the championship.
In @Home Open Platform League, participants use their original robots. The competition consisted of a Basic Functionality where basic functions of robots are evaluated, a Tidy Up task where robots clean up cluttered rooms, and a Technical Challenge where teams show their unique research results and their robot demonstrations. Hibikino-Musashi@Home won the Technical Challenge and won 2nd place totally.


RoboCup Japan Open @Home DSPL 1st Place
Hibikino-Musashi@Home, supervised by the vice director Prof. Tamukoh, participated in the RoboCup Japan Open 2021 @Home Domestic Standard Platform League held on March 9th-12th and won the championship.
In @Home Domestic Standard Platform League, HSRs (Human Support Robots) developed by Toyota Motor Corporation are used as standard platforms and participants implement their software under the same hardware conditions. The competition consisted of a Tidy Up task where robots clean up cluttered rooms and a Technical Challenge where teams show their unique research results and their robot demonstrations. Hibikino-Musashi@Home won both competitions.




A paper was published in Nature Communications
On February 24th, a paper entitled “Inter-element miscibility driven stabilization of ordered pseudo-binary alloy” submitted by a research group of Prof. Horibe with Kyoto University was published in the academic journal “Nature Communications.” The journal is open access and can be viewed from the link below.
Introduced in AI Japan
On January 28th, our research with Osaka University and UCLA (published in Advanced Intelligent Systems) was introduced in AI Japan.
A paper was published in Advanced Intelligent Systems
On January 4th (JST), a paper entitled “Emergence of In-Materio Intelligence from an Incidental Structure of a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube–Porphyrin Polyoxometalate Random Network” submitted by a research group of this center, Osaka University, and UCLA was published in the academic journal “Advanced Intelligent Systems.” The journal is open access and can be viewed from the link below.