News and Research Highlights

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Developing Humanoid Robots Together with the Workplace

An introduction to a project that views humanoid robots as part of the workforce and develops their roles together with real workplaces.

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KIT and NVIDIA Sign an Academic Collaboration Agreement

Kanazawa Institute of Technology and NVIDIA signed an agreement to advance education and research for the physical-AI era. The collaboration was prompted by NVIDIA’s interest in Nakazawa Lab’s iREX 2025 exhibition and will expand access to NVIDIA educational programs, AI learning environments, and industry collaboration.

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Nakazawa Lab at iREX 2025

Nakazawa Lab exhibited its research at the 2025 International Robot Exhibition (iREX) at Tokyo Big Sight, held from December 3 to 6, 2025.

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Two Awards at DPSWS 2025

Kodai Tawa and Misa Sakashita, graduate students in information engineering, received two awards at the 2025 Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Symposium (DPSWS 2025) of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

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AI Agent “AIzawa Minori”

An AI-agent initiative introduced by Kanazawa Institute of Technology.

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Position Estimation Using UWB, LiDAR, and Ultrasound

A joint-research case study on position estimation that combines UWB, LiDAR, and ultrasound.

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Location-Based AR System

A joint-research case study on a location-based augmented-reality system.

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Best Session Presentation Award at ICCE 2025

Apirak Sang-ngenchai received the Best Session Presentation Award at ICCE 2025.

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Best Paper Award at IWMCA 2024

The lab received the Best Paper Award at IWMCA 2024.

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Location-Based AR Demonstration at iREX 2023

The lab demonstrated recent results from its location-based AR platform research at the International Robot Exhibition in 2023.

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