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. We also accept master's and doctoral students under JSK Robotics Laboratory, so please contact us.

News

2026.05.22I will be giving an invited talk at ICRA2026 workshop on Unconventional Robots!
2026.05.18第39回安藤博記念学術奨励賞を受賞しました!
2026.05.15ムーンショット目標3にPMとして採択されました!
2026.05.14I will be giving a Keynote Talk at ICRA2026!
2026.04.09Our paper on biomimetic robot joint with joint receptors was accepted to Scientific Reports!
2026.04.07I will be giving an invited talk at RoboSoft2026 workshop on co-design for soft manipulation!
2026.04.01Our paper on practical open-source quadruped robot MEVIUS2 was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice!
2026.03.18Our paper on dexterous grasp data augmentation was accepted to Advanced Robotics!
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!