Ph.D. 博士(工学) |経歴:🤖社D→ex-osx Intern→研究員&東大松尾研と🤖研究→助教|Robot×AI |💬個人的見解🐨 |静かめ→@robotmkb| This account mainly tweets in Japanese.| English ver→@MeRTcookingEN

Assistant Professor
Joined November 2016
What are the essentials for today's robotic manipulation🤖? Our answer: 🦾: "Position and Force information/control" 💡: "A Low-cost bimanual robotic physical hardware considering diverse motor control modes (ALPHA-α)" Project Page: mertcookimg.github.io/alpha-…
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🎉水中双腕ロボット学習システムULOHAがIEEE Spectrum Video Friday: Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosに掲載されました🙌 ・Video Friday spectrum.ieee.org/video-frid… 以下はご興味ありましたらぜひ! 水中双腕ロボット学習プラットフォームULOHAを公開しました!ざっくりとは水中版ALOHA的なやつです。 二人で仕上げました! ハードは自作で、ソフトはLeRobotを改良しており、学習モデルはACT, Diffusion, SmolVLA, RTCなどなど色々試しました.良ければご覧ください! Hugging FaceのLeRobot Tech Leadの人からSuper Coolとコメントがきたりと色々嬉しいです。 ULOHA: An Underwater Bimanual Robot System for Robot Learning Masato Kobayashi, Takeru Tsunoori 📝Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.19200 🌐Project page: mertcookimg.github.io/uloha/ 💻Github: github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA 🎬YouTube(結構動画作成がんばりました): youtube.com/watch?v=0QUS7BZZ…
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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🎉🎉🎉 Our Research ULOHA was featured in IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday: Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos! 🙌🤖 ↓Link #ULOHA spectrum.ieee.org/video-frid…
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
水中版ALOHA、その名もULOHAを開発しました🌊🦾🏖️ ロボットハードウェアは自作設計、ソフトウェアはLeRobot拡張で、日本発の水中双腕ロボット学習システムです🤖 チームは2名と小規模ですが、試行錯誤しながら形にすることができました! 良ければ引用元の動画をご覧ください! #ULOHA #LeRobot
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
Replying to @MeRTcooking
Underwater robotics is actually super cool and demanded. Well deserved ⭐️
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本日も朝6時出勤かまして、色々授業準備やらなんやら仕込んで油断してたら21時、、、 明日からアメリカに向けて飛ぶのですが、これから帰宅してご飯たべて、荷造り&発表資料作成いけるか…
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🎉 3 papers have been accepted to #IROS2026! 🌊 Bi-AQUA — Bilateral control + underwater robot learning 🥽 MRPoS — Mixed Reality + LLM-based robot navigation 🦾 Bi-HIL — Bilateral control + long-horizon contact-rich imitation learning Huge congrats to everyone involved! 🚀
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②MRPoS: Mixed Reality-Based Robot Navigation Interface Using Spatial Pointing and Speech with Large Language Model mertcookimg.github.io/mrpos/
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③Bi-HIL: Bilateral Control-Based Multimodal Hierarchical Imitation Learning via Subtask-Level Progress Rate and Keyframe Memory for Long-Horizon Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation mertcookimg.github.io/bi-hil…
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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水中版ALOHA、その名もULOHAを開発しました🌊🦾🏖️ ロボットハードウェアは自作設計、ソフトウェアはLeRobot拡張で、日本発の水中双腕ロボット学習システムです🤖 チームは2名と小規模ですが、試行錯誤しながら形にすることができました! 良ければ引用元の動画をご覧ください! #ULOHA #LeRobot
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Two hands on land. Two robot arms underwater. 🌊🤖 With ULOHA, an operator lifts, inserts, and retrieves floating objects through bimanual teleoperation—collecting demonstrations for underwater robot learning. Watch the hand-camera views. 👀 (3/n)
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How far can robot learning go underwater? 🌊🤖 ULOHA explores: • 9 underwater bimanual tasks • Manipulation under bubbles • SmolVLA with/without RTC • Training and evaluation in air and water Learned from teleoperated demonstrations. Successes—and failures—in action. (4/n)
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
ダイナミクセル 沈めてる👀🌊
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
防水Dynamixelで遊ぶのやりたいと思ってたら先にやられてた。
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
水中版双腕ロボット学習システム ULOHAを提案しました🌊🎉 リーダ&フォロワロボットは自作でフォロワ側は水中でも動作します。 ソフトウェアはLeRobotを改良し、ACT, Diffusion, SmolVLAやRTC等を評価しました! 近日、ハードウェアとソフトウェアを公開予定です! 私と学生さんと2人で仕上げました!
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
Just as ALOHA unlocked manipulation on land🦾, ULOHA aims to unlock manipulation underwater🌊🦾
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
What If Robots Could Learn to Work Underwater? ULOHA is an underwater bimanual robot learning platform built for studying robot learning in a very different environment. It combines custom leader-follower hardware with LeRobot, multi-view sensing, teleoperation, demonstration collection, policy training and autonomous deployment. The team tested ACT, Diffusion Policy and SmolVLA on real underwater tasks including inter-arm transfer, shared-object manipulation and buoyancy-driven interception. What makes it interesting is that underwater robotics adds problems you don't normally see on a workbench, including buoyancy, bubbles, moving objects and different dynamics. A fascinating platform for exploring how robot learning changes when the environment itself fights back.
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 retweeted
Marine and underwater environments are an environment where robotics is urgently needed, yet it's one of the harder areas to get started This project from Masato and Takeru from Japan seems really interesting and could be great starting point for getting into marine robotics!
🎉Introducing our research: ULOHA🌊🤖🏖️ We built an underwater bimanual robot learning platform with custom hardware and software extending LeRobot—from demos to autonomous skills. Hardware & software coming soon! ⭐A GitHub star would mean a lot to us! github.com/mertcookimg/ULOHA
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