Kei Okada
Kei Okada studies how robots can work in everyday environments. His work connects visual verification, humanoid behavior and reusable robot software. Okada completed his engineering doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 2002. His subsequent career remained tied to its robot research group. Okada and colleagues published a vision-based behavior verification system for humanoid tasks in daily environments.
- Now at
- RIKEN and University of Tokyo
- Works
- 915
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Timeline
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2002
Doctoral training in Tokyo
Okada completed his engineering doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 2002. His subsequent career remained tied to its robot research group.
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2006
Checking robot actions through vision
Okada and colleagues published a vision-based behavior verification system for humanoid tasks in daily environments. The work received the Humanoids 2006 Best Paper Award.
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2024
Cooking from recipes
Okada coauthored research on a real-world cooking robot using food-state recognition, foundation models and the PDDL planning language. This work was conducted outside RIKEN.
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As of October 2026
Robot System Team
Okada directs RIKEN’s Robot System Team. Its program develops robot platforms and AI models grounded in real-world experience.
Sources and credits
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