Kanta Sugiyama
Head of ML Engineering
ex. University of Tokyo, NEC, pluszero Inc.
Background
MSc, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. AI researcher at Pluszero (TSE: 5132), where he did applied AI R&D as the company grew from startup to listing.
Research topics
- VLA
- Robotics
- RTC
- AI Agent
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- RECAP
- Manipulation
- Real-robot evaluation
Articles
Uncovering Why the Robot Misses the Towel: Mechanism Analysis of Real-World Policies and an Automated Investigation Using 4 AI Roles
Uncovering the mechanisms of premature closure and sustained empty transport in towel grasping via 10,000+ inferences, and detailing our automated investigation process with 3 AI models (4 roles) and human quality gates.
Folding Towels, Measured in Yen per Hour
RECAP on a real dual-arm robot cut towel-folding cycle time by over 5%; success rate barely moved. We measure every result in profit per robot-hour.
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