EVARL @ UTokyo AI Center

EVARL

Evolutionary, deVelopmental, and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory

About EVARL

We develop musculoskeletal humanoids, wire-driven robots, and open-source robotic platforms to explore how intelligence emerges from embodiment, biomechanics, and sensorimotor learning. Our goal is to build next-generation intelligent robots that integrate body design, neural control, and large-scale learning.


This group is led by Kento Kawaharazuka. We are always looking for outstanding postdocs and RAs from the University of Tokyo and other universities. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us.

News

2026.02.25船井学術賞を受賞しました!
2026.02.24Our paper on Efficient Robot Design with BBO and LLM was accepted to IEEE Access!
2026.02.12Our paper on characteristics, management, and utilization of muscles was accepted to Advanced Intelligent Systems!
2026.02.02Two papers including on first-authored paper were accepted to ICRA2026!
2026.01.06Our paper on analysis of various manipulator configurations was accepted to Advanced Robotics!
2025.11.25Kento Kawaharazuka was selected as one of the Innovators Under 35 Japan 2025 by MIT Technology Review!
2025.10.24"Chimney Climbing by KLEIYN" was selected as Best Early Career Talk Award at IROS2025 workshop on climbing robotics!
2025.10.01Kento Kawaharazuka has been appointed as a visiting researcher at RIKEN AIP!
2025.10.01Remotely Wire-Driven Walking Robot" was selected as Best Interactive Paper Award Finalist at Humanoids2025!
2025.09.27RL-based Giant Swing" was selected as Best Open-Source Hardware Award at CoRL2025 Workshop!
2025.09.17Our survey paper on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotics has been accepted to IEEE Access!
2025.09.04Our survey paper "Real-World Robot Applications of Foundation Models: A Review" won the Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award!