Human Augmentation – Sony CSL

This research area explores ways to enhance human capabilities through sensory augmentation and robotics. By offering new experiences in vision and touch or developing technologies that complement and extend physical functions, we seek to broaden human potential while also exploring the redefinition of humanity itself.

Worldviews

Human Augmentation

I want to take humanity to a more natural world - Jun Rekimoto

Reseach Areas	Human Augmentation Augmented Societies
Researchers

Realizing the Creativity and Sustainability of Musicians

Shinichi Furuya

Reseach Areas	Creativity Human Augmentation
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Cybernetic Humanity

Exploring the new humanity emerging from the harmony between humans and computers - Shunichi Kasahara

Reseach Areas	Human Augmentation
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Projects

Reciprocity in hybrid systems of humans and machines

Global Biotic Interactions data with two types of centralities

Open Data Release

EMAS: ElectroMagnetic Actuation System for Low-Latency Motion Transfer

JackIn Space

Supporting the Seamless Transition Between First and Third Person View for Effective Telepresence Collaborations

News & Articles

[Article]A paper by Dr. S. Furuya et al has been published in PNAS.

2025年9月24日

[MEDIA] Research Director Furuya’s Interview Published in Science Japan

Brain plasticity opens the future: The challenge of surpassing pianists' limits

2025年9月4日

[INFO] Exhibition and Experiment "Nature Resonance, Urban Echoes" Opens at OIST

Dr. S. Kasahara is in charge of research and direction for this project.

2025年9月1日

[INFO] Research Director Shinichi Furuya Featured in the September Issue of the Monthly Magazine "Highlighting JAPAN," Published by the Government of Japan

2025年9月1日

Nature Career Feature Includes a Reference to Dr. S. Kasahara

Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so

2025年8月18日

The Associated Press has published an article highlighting the Nishijin weaving initiative at Kyoto Research.

Tradition meets AI in Nishijinori weaving style from Japan’s ancient capital

2025年8月1日

[Article] A new article by Dr. J. Rekimoto et al. has been published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Multimodal Silent Speech-based Text Entry with Word-initials Conditioned LLM

2025年7月24日

[MEDIA] Shinichi Furuya, Research Director, will appear on the science program Science View, broadcast by NHK WORLD-JAPAN.

2025年6月12日

Publications

Yokoi, Sotaro and Rekimoto, Jun

MermaidLLM: Dataflow Diagrams for Explainable Skill Formalization and Real-time Support with Multimodal LLMs

Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | 2025

Kaori Kuromiya and Yuya Kobayashi and Masato Hirano and Shinichi Furuya

Motor origins of timbre in piano performance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Vol.122, pages e2425073122, 2025

Endo, Ken and Sato, Keita

Democratizing sports prosthetics with crowdfunding

J. Robot. Soc. Jpn. | pages 378--381, 2025