Research Assistant Professor Morimoto of our laboratory has been awarded the Featured Theme Session Prize at the HCG Symposium.

The research paper ‘The Influence of Prior Knowledge about the Other on Social Brain Function: An Investigation Using Robots’, led by Satoshi Morimoto (Research Assistant Professor, Keio Global Research Institute) from our laboratory, received the Special Theme Session Award in the Social Interaction category at the IEICE HCG (Human Communication Group) Symposium 2025, held at the Kitakyushu International Conference Centre from 10 to 12 December 2025. This research is a joint project between Panasonic and the University of Tsukuba.