| Dec 19 | "PINOKY" was published at U.S.A Web engadget NEWS. |
| Dec. 19 | Professer Ken Perlin (NYU Research Lab) gave a talk about "The Future of Computer Graphics". |
| Dec. 06 | The project "PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys" was upped. |
| Nov. 30 | Paper "TouchMe: An Augmented Reality Based Remote Robot Manipulation" is awarded Honorable Mention from "ICAT 2011". |
| Nov. 01 | Lee Calista, graduate student at Keio University, joined as an assistant. |
| Nov. 01 | Kentaro Ishi (assistant professor at The University of Tokyo) joined as a research adviser. |
| Oct. 26 | The project "Motion Comics: Visualization, Browsing and Searching of Human Motion Data" was upped. |
| Oct. 14 | The project "Interactive Climbing Route Design Using a Simulated Virtual Climber" was upped. |
| Oct. 03 | Haipeng Mi (•Ä ŠC–Q), Ph.D. joined as a researcher. |
| Sep. 30 | The project "Sketch-based Dynamic Illustration of Fluid Systems" was upped. |
| Sep. 28 | "FuwaFuwa" was published at the November/December issue of ROBOT Magazine (USA). project » |
| Sep. 22 | "Sketch Chair" exhibits "The form of Co-Creation: the reality in the Digital Fabrication Era" from Oct. 1 to Nov. 13 in Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery. |
| Sep. 08 | Ryohei Suzuki undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo, joined as an assistant. |
| Aug. 18 | The project "An Augmented Reality System for Teaching Sequential Tasks to a Household Robot" was upped. |
| Aug. 15 | The project "FuwaFuwa: Making Soft Objects a Touch-input Device" was upped. |
| Aug. 08 | The project "Geometric Toy: An Interactive Design System for Sphericon-based Geometric Toys using Conical Voxels" was upped. |
| Aug. 05 | Kouki Nomura undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo, joined as an assistant. |
| Aug. 01 | Dr. Daniel Saakes (former assistant professor Design Techiques at the Delft University of Technology) joined us as a researcher. |
| July 23 | The symposium was held in Miraikan.
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| July 15 | The project "Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors" was upped. |
| June 28 | The project "Sketch Chair: An All-in-one Chair Design System for End-users" was upped. |
| June 11 | Exhibition "Living with Monmo" by "Technologies for programming home robots" group was started in Miraikan. [Term] June 11 (Sat.) - December 27 (Tue.), 2011 
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| May 30 | Kazi Rubaiat Habib (Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore) , joined as a visiting researcher. |
| May 17 | The project "Active Marionette: An Actuated Physical Puppet as an Input Device for Controlling a Digital Manikin" was upped. |
| May 16 | The project "Roboshop: Photoshop for Robots" was upped. |
| May 09 | Martin Levihn the Georgia Institute of Technology, joined as a visiting researcher. |
| May 02 | Masaki Hirose Ph.D. student at University of Tsukuba, joined as an assistant. |
| May 02 | Daisuke Sakamoto (assistant professor at The University of Tokyo) joined as a research adviser. |
| Apr. 14 | Researcher's Manfured Lau Ph.D. left the project, he got the job in the Lancaster University. |
| Apr. 08 |
We discussed about the research program this year at "Hotel Wakamiya" in Kamakura. Participants are T. Igarashi, M. Inami, J. Mitani, M. Sugimoto, T. Masui, S. Hashimoto, K. Watanabe, D. Sakamoto, J. Kato, Y. Sugiura and Y. Suzuki. |
| Apr. 01 | The project "smoon: A Spoon with Automatic Capacity Adjustment" was upped. |
| Apr. 01 | Ayaka Satou, master's student at Ochanomizu University, joined as an assistant. |
| Mar. 31 | Researcher's Daisuke Sakamoto Ph.D. left the project, he got the job in The University of Tokyo graduate school. |
| Mar. 17 | Prof. Steven Feiner (Columbia University) visited our office. |
| Mar. 09 | The project "TouchMe: Direct Manipulation for Robot Based on Augmented Reality" was upped. |
| Mar. 02 | Dr. Daniel Saakes (assistant professor Design Techiques at the Delft University of Technology) visited us to interview. |
| Feb. 01 | Dr. Xiang Cao in Microsoft Research Asia visited us, and gave his lecture. |
| Jan. 04 | Shouta Matsuda, graduate of Keio University, joined as an assistant. |
