Kanta Sugiyama
CTO
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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