| Dec. 13 | Greg held the workshop of "Designing and making a miniature chair" with National Museum of emerging Science and Innovation and the Miraikan fan club in co-sponsoring. |
| Dec. 01 | Pranav Mistry , research assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| Dec. 01 | Dr. Keita Watanabe and Makoto Kondo graduate student at Keio University, joined as an assistant. |
| Nov. 09 | Andre Figueiredo Ribeiro, master's student at MIT, visited by the interview. |
| Nov. 09 | Takumi Shirokura, master's student at Future University Hakodate (FUN), joined as an intern. |
| Nov. 02 | Richard Fung, master's student at University of Waterloo, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| Nov. 02 | Gota Kakehi, graduate student at Keio University, Daiki Yamanaka, undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo and Ryoma Kawajiri, undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo, joined as are assistant. |
| Oct. 28 | "Foldy: Graphical Instruction for Garment-Folding Robot" was telecasted by "Trend Tamago" of "World Business Satellite" of TV-Tokyo. [ VIDEO ] |
| Oct. 10 | Furuta held the workshop of "Designing and making a baloon" with National Museum of emerging Science and Innovation and the Miraikan fan club in co-sponsoring. |
| Oct. 06 | Magic Cards, Push-pins and CRISTAL were exhibited to "Life Contents Frontier" of CEATEC JAPAN 2009 (Oct.6-10, Makuhari Messe).
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| Sep. 30 | "Push-pins: Design-by-user Approach to Home Automation Programming" was announced at ubicomp 2009 (Orland, Florida, September 29- October 3, 2009). |
| Aug. 24 | "Robot Control Interface using Stroke Gestures of Laser Pointer" was announced at INTERACT 2009 (Uppsala, Sweeden, August 24-28, 2009). [project] |
| Aug. 13 | Greg Saul, alumnus of Victoria University of Wellington, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| Aug. 10 | Manfred Lau, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University alumnus), joined as a researcher. |
| Aug. 03 | In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies (New Orleans, USA, August 03-07, 2009), two demonstrations were held. - Foldy: Graphical Instruction for A Garment Folding Robot, - CRISTAL: Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems Using Touch-Based Actions in Living Spaces |
| July 28 | Joshua Collins, graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined as an intern. |
| July 25 | Karl held the workshop of "Lamp shade making" for the upper-grade of the grade-schooler. |
| July 09 | "Life Contents Frontier" of CEATEC JAPAN 2009 (Oct.6-10, 2009, Makuhari Messe) decided to accept the exhibition of "Magic Cards", "Push-pins" and "CRISTAL". |
| July 01 | Anusha Withana, graduate student at Keio University and Takeo Hamada, graduate student at Tokyo Institute of Technology, joined as are assistant. |
| July 01 | Youichi Kamiyama became a research assistant. |
| June 16 | Keisuke Takahashi, graduate student at University of Tsukuba, Takayuki Itamochi, undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo and Shigeo Yoshida, undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo, joined as are assistant. |
| June 02 | Juncong Lin, Ph.D., researcher at Zhejiang University, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| June 02 | Greg Saul visited by the interview. |
| June 01 | Youichi Kamiyama, joined as an assistant. |
| May 28 | "Magic Cards: A Paper Tag Interface for Implicit Robot Control" was telecasted by "Trend Tamago" of "World Business Satellite" of TV-Tokyo. [ VIDEO ] |
| May 22 | "A paper tag interface for robot control" appeared in Nikkei Industrial News. |
| May 19 | Joshua Collins, scheduled to graduate from MIT with a bachelor degree in June, visited by the interview. |
| May 12 | Andrei Ostanin, undergraduate student at University of Utah, joined as an intern. |
| May 01 | Teruki Shinohara, undergraduate student at University of Tsukuba, joined as an assistant. |
| Apr. 23 | ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies (New Orleans, August 2009) adopted two theses. - Graphical Instruction for A Garment Folding Robot, - CRISTAL: Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems Using Touch-Based Actions in Living Spaces |
| Apr. 17 | Igarashi's research and this project are telecasted by TV Tokyo "100 Japanese who change the world". |
| Apr. 01 | Karl D.D. Willis, joined as an assistant. |
| Apr. 01 | Sunao Hashimoto, Ph.D., joined as a researcher. |
| Mar. 27 | Tabare Akim Gowon, undergraduate student at Harvard University, joined as an intern. |
| Mar. 01 | Manfred Lau, Ph.D., candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, visited by the interview. |
| Feb. 21 |
The project participated in FUN-AI-09 at Hakodate and presented the research of the project. The annual meeting of the project was held, and the working scheme for the coming year was settled on. Participation are T. Igarashi, M. Inami, J. Mitani, M. Sugimoto, T. Masui, K. Fukuchi, D. Sakamoto, K. Ishii, S. Hashimoto and Y. Suzuki. |
| Feb. 20 |
3D printer "Dimension SST 1200es" was borrowed from the Inami laboratory at the Keio University.
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| Feb. 10 | Toshiyuki Masui, Ph.D., joined as a research Adviser. |
| Feb. 06 |
3D laser scanner "LPX-60DS", made by the Roland company, was introduced .
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| Feb. 03 | Charith Fernando, graduate student at Keio University, joined as an assistant. |
| Feb. 01 | Brandon Thomas Taylor, graduate student at MIT, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| Jan. 26 | Juncong Lin Ph.D., Research Assistant at Chinese University of Hong Kong, visited by the interview. |
| Jan. 01 | Maki Sugimoto Ph.D., Senior Assistant Professor at Keio University, joined as a research Adviser. |
