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
Researchers

Cybernetic Humanity

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

Reseach Areas	Human Augmentation
Researchers

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

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

"Worldview" by Jun Rekimoto is now available.

Human Augmentation

2025年5月13日

[AWARD] Jun Rekimoto has been awarded membership in the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy

2025年4月9日

［PRESS RELEASE］Pianist Discovers Method for Body to Learn Skills that Surpass Human Limits

2025年1月16日

'WORLD' by Yuichiro Takeuchi is now available.

Wikitopia: A Future City Built by "Everyone"

2024年11月26日

【Conference 12/3 - 6】SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Two presentations were accepted for the demonstration exhibition and two for the poster exhibition.

2024年11月25日

Publications

Endo, Ken and Sato, Keita

Democratizing sports prosthetics with crowdfunding

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

Su, Zixiong and Fang, Shitao and Rekimoto, Jun

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

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces | 2025

Nakano, Yuki and Suzuki, Hiroyuki and Maeda, Tadao and Hirami, Yasuhiro and Suzuma, Kiyoshi and Takahashi, Masayo

Subretinal injections in rabbits with a small surgical assist device (Origanoid)

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science | Vol.66, pages 221--221, 2025