OIST, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, is located in Onna village, up north on Route 58 from the conference venue, the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan. The university opened in 2012 as an international graduate university with a five-year doctoral program. With an emphasis on cross-disciplinary education and research, there are no departments and 89 research units (laboratories) cover overlapping research fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience and robotics. It has a unique education system for interdisciplinary study and was ranked 9th in Nature Index for the proportion of high-quality papers.

We, the 2022 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, would like to take this opportunity to organize a joint workshop with this truly interdisciplinary institute. Humanoid robot research is also basically an interdisciplinary research field. Therefore, communications between OIST and our community will be very fruitful. I thank our plenary speaker Prof. Kenji Doya of OIST for his willingness to also co-organize this workshop.

In this workshop, researchers from OIST will first give talks about animal intelligence, from cephalopods and birds to rodents. Talks by researchers from Humanoid fields will follow. Through this “champuru” (Okinawan for mixture), we wish we can think deeply about intelligence, and further extend our study.

Koh Hosoda, the general co-chair of Humanoids2022

Koh Hosoda (Osaka University)

Kenji Doya (OIST)

For persons attending the lab tour

We will also arrange 3 buses from OIST at 18:00 back to the conference venue, Omoromachi, and finally Kencho-kitaguchi.

Please refer to "Access and Maps" in OIST's webpage for locations of the bus stops and other ways of transportations.