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2010/08/27 TV program:

A TV program about "visual image reconstruction" of Department of Neuroinformatics of CNS will be broadcasted on the following date:

Date & time: Sunday, August 29, 23:00 - 23:30
Station: NHK General TV
Program: "Otona Doriru"
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/kaisetsu/drill/ (Japanese only)
      


2010/07/29 TV program:

A TV program about Robovie-mR2 which was exhibited at Keihanna Business Messe held on July 22 will be broadcasted on the following date:

Date & time: Sunday, July 30, 21:25-22:25
Station: KBS Kyoto
Program: "Kyo-biz W"
URL: http://www.kbs-kyoto.co.jp/tv/kyo-bizw/ (Japanese only)
*The program will be canceled in case of a significant incident or accident.       


2010/07/02 TV program:

A TV program about interviews with Dr. Ishiguro, Dr. Ogawa, Dr. Shiomi and Mr. Matsumura of IRC will be broadcasted on the following date:

Date & time: Sunday, July 4, 18:30-18:56
Station: tv asahi
Program: "Kiseki no chikyu-monogatari"
URL: http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/miracle-earth/trailer/cur/ (Japanese only)
*The program will be canceled in case of a significant incident or accident.       


2010/06/25 TV program:

A TV program about an interview with Dr. Nakayama, director of ATR-Sensetech, will be broadcasted on the following date:

Date & time: Friday, June 25, 21:25 - 22:25
Station: KBS Kyoto
Program: "Kyo-bizW"
URL: http://www.kbs-kyoto.co.jp/tv/kyo-bizw/ (Japanese only)
*The program will be canceled in case of a significant incident or accident.       


2010/04/30 TV program:

"Automatic evaluation system of driving skill" developed based on the research achievements of ATR will be introduced in the following TV program.

Date & time: Friday, April 30, 18:10-19:00
Station: NHK Kyoto
Program: "Kyo-ichinichi"
URL: http://cgi4.nhk.or.jp/hensei/program/p.cgi?area=201&date=2010-04-30&ch=21&eid=52727 (Japanese only)
*The program will be canceled in case of a significant incident or accident.       


2010/04/02 TV program:

A TV program using "Shabette Honyaku (DX version, Japanese-to-Chinese speech-translation )" which was commercialized based on the technologies developed by ATR will be broadcast as follows:

Date & time: Saturday, April 3, For 15 min between 6:00 am and 8:30 am
Station: Fuji TV
Program: "Mezamashi Saturday"
URL: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/mezamado/index.html (Japanese only)
*The program will be canceled in case of a significant incident or accident.       


2010/01/15 Dr. Kawato, head of CNS, will appear in a live TV program as follows:

Date & time: Monday, January 18, 19:30-19:56     
Station: NHK General TV, NHK WORLD Premium
Program: "Close-up Gendai (Today's Close-up)"
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/gendai/ (Japanese only)       


2009/12/22 An interview with Dr. Satake of IRC will be broadcast as follows:

Date & time: Tuesdayy, December 29, 15:50 - 16:45      
Station: Yomiuri TV
Program: "The world's surprise★Robo-Challenge
      ~Astro Boy will come true!?~"


2009/12/18 An interview with Dr. Satake of IRC will be broadcast as follows:

Date & time: Friday, December 18, 17:50 - 18:40
Station: Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS)
Program: "VOICE"
URL: http://www.mbs.jp/voice/ (Japanese only)



2009/12/16 An interview with Dr. Reiko Yamada, chairperson & CVO of ATR Learning Technology Corporation, will be broadcast as follows:

Date & time: Friday, December 18, 22:45 - 23:30
Station: NHK General TV
Program: "Eigode Shabera Night Returns (Can you speak English?)"
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/night/ (Japanese only)



2009/09/17 An interview with Dr. Kawato, head of CNS, will be broadcast as follows:

Time and Date: Saturday, September 19, 22:00-22:35
Station: NHK Educational TV
Program: Science ZERO
(The new technology for connecting a brain with a machine)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/zero/ (Japanese only)

Rerun: Thursday, September 24, 02:30-03:05 NHK-BS2
Rerun: Friday, September 25, 19:00-19:35 NHK Educational TV




2009/07/09 An interview with Dr. Kamitani, head of Department of NeuroInformatics of CNS, will be broadcast as follows:

Date & time: Saturday, July 11, 20:00 - 20:43
Station: NHK General TV
Program: "Tsuiseki A to Z"
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/tsuiseki/ (Japanese only)



2009/04/27 Dr. Shiomi of IRC will appear on a live radio program featuring "Cutting-edge in Kyoto (Robots)" as follows:

Date & time: Tuesday, April 28, 12:20 - 13:55
Radio station: NHK Radio
Program: "Furusato Radio"
*It will be introduced in a part of the program "kokoha furusato tabisuru rajio"
(expected on air time: 12:30~12:50)
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/park/ (Japanese only)



2009/04/16 A TV program about the press release of CNS will be broadcast as follows:

Station: NHK
Date & time: Friday, April 17, 13:05 - 13:55
Program: "Sutajio-paku kara konnichiwa" (Hello from Studio Park)
URL: http://www.nhk.or.jp/park/ (Japanese only)



2009/01/23 TV program
Interviews with Dr. Ishiguro of IRC are to be broadcast as follows.

1. Time and Date: Sunday, January 25, 00:00-00:44
              (Saturday, 24:00-24:44[midnight])
Station: NHK Educational TV
Program: Science ZERO
http://www.nhk.or.jp/zero/ (Japanese only)

Rerun: Thursday, January 29, 03:10-03:54 BS2
  Rerun: Thursday, January 29, 03:16-04:00 NHK Educational TV
  Rerun: Friday, January 30, 19:00-19:44 NHK Educational TV

2. Time and Date: Monday, January 26, 22:25-22:50
  Station: NHK Educational TV
  Dr. Minoru Asada's forefront of robot technology
    http://www.nhk.or.jp/shiruraku/ (Japanese only)

  Rerun: Monday, February 2, 05:05-05:30



2008/12/03 TV program
Interviews with Mr.Naya of KSL are to be broadcast as follows.

1. Date and Time: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 4:30~8:15
   Station: NHK
   Program: Good Morning Japan



2008/11/20 TV program
Interviews with Mr.Naya and others of KSL are to be broadcast as follows.

1. Date and Time: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 18:10~19:00
   Station: NHK Kyoto
   Program: News 610 Kyo Ichinichi (News 6:10, Today's Kyoto)
   (Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/kyoto/news610/

2. Date and Time: Friday, November 21, 2008, 7:45~8:00
   Station: NHK Osaka
   Program: Ohayo Kansai (Good morning Kansai)
   (Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/osaka/ohayou/




2008/11/13 TV program
Interviews with Dr. Hagita, director of IRC, are to be broadcast as follows.

1. Date and Time: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 18:10~19:00
   Station: NHK Kyoto
   Program: News 610 Kyo Ichinichi (News 6:10, Today's Kyoto)
   URL(Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/kyoto/news610/




2008/10/22 TV program:
Interviews with Dr. Noma, head of department of smart tactile device of
KSL,are to be broadcast as follows.

1. Date and Time: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 18:10~19:00
   Station: NHK Kyoto
   Program: News 610 Kyo Ichinichi (News 6:10, Today's Kyoto)
   (Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/kyoto/news610/ 

2. Date and Time: Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:45~8:00
   Station: NHK Osaka
   Program: Ohayo Kansai (Good morning Kansai)
   (Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/osaka/ohayou/ 



2008/05/01 TV program:

An interview with Dr. Kawato, head of CNS, is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: NHK General TV
Date and Time: FSunday, May 4, 2008, 21:00-21:49
Program: NHK Special "Miracle Body" Part 4
    Go beyond the limit of response; Special effects, an instant battle http://www.nhk.or.jp/special/(Japanese only)



2008/04/12 TV program:

An interview with Dr. Takemoto of CIS is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: NHK General TV
Date and Time: Sunday, April 13, 2008, 21:00-21:50
Program: NHK Special "The Origine of Diseases"
              Part 1 Sleep Apnea Syndrome;
A disease caused by stone tools
http://cgi4.nhk.or.jp/hensei/program/p.cgi?area=001&date=2008-04-13&ch=2
1&eid=11931(Japanese only)



2008/04/03 TV program:

An interview with Dr. Sumita, head of NLP, SLC, is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: KBS Kyoto
Date and Time: Friday, April 4, 2008, 21:25-22:25
Program: Kyo bizW
http://www.kbs-kyoto.co.jp/tv/kyo-bizw/(Japanese only)



2008/02/15 TV program:

An interview with Dr. Kenji Doya, head of CNB, and Dr. Saori Tanaka, both belonging to CNS, is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: NHK
Date and Time: Saturday, February 16, 2008, 22:00-22:30
Program: Kaitai Shin Show
(Japanese): http://www.nhk.or.jp/kaitai/top.html



2007/11/15 Prize Winner:

APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award(Mitsuo Kawato)
Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly



2007/11/15 Prize Winner:

Best Paper Award(Mitsuo Kawato, David W.Franklin, Udell So, Rieko Osu)
Prize Winner:International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2007)



2007/11/13 Researcher Positions available in Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (SLC-ATR)

Deadline: Decision to hire is after March 1, 2008 as needed basis.
Send the application and contact to: slc-jobs@atr.jp



2007/11/09 An interview with Dr. Imamizu of CNS is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: NHK
Date and Time: Saturday, November 10, 2007, 10:00-10:30
Program: "Kaitai Shin Show"
(Japanese): http://www.nhk.or.jp/kaitai/


2007/10/12 Department of Communication Robots, all of IRC. The details are as follows.

Station: NHK
Date and Time: Monday, October 15, 2007, 01:40-02:10(after midnight)
Program: "BEGIN JAPANOLOGY"
The program aims to introduce Japan's history and culture to people overseas.(Japanese)


2007/09/28 An interview with Dr. Hagita, director, Dr. Miyashita, head of
Department of Ambience Intelligence and Dr. Kanda, senior researcher of
Department of Communication Robots, all of IRC, is to be broadcast as
follows.

Station: NHK
Date and Time: Monday, October 1, 2007, 14:05-14:55
Program: Ogenki desu ka Nihon retto
(Japanese): http://www.nhk.or.jp/ogenki/


2007/09/20 An interview with Dr. Hagita, Director, Dr. Miyashita, Head of Department of Ambience Intelligence and Dr. Kanda, Senior Researcher,all of IRC, is to be broadcast as follows.

Station: NHK
Date and Time: Friday, September 21, 2007, 18:10-19:00
Program: News 610 Kyo Ichinichi (News 6:10, Today's Kyoto)
(Japanese):http://www.nhk.or.jp/kyoto/news610/

2007/06/28
Information about NHK TV program

Title:
MRI movie for Japanese tongue twister recorded at ATR Brain Activity
Imaging Center in ATR-Promotions was on air in NHK TV program
"Kai-Tai-Shin Show" on June 30th.

Contents
MRI movie for Japanese tongue twister ("TAKE TATE KAKE TA") recorded at ATR Brain Activity Imaging Center in ATR-Promotions was on air in NHK TV
program "Kai-Tai-Shin Show" on June 30th. Dynamic movements of the
tongue during producing the tongue twister was presented using the
uniquely developed MRI technique. Dr. Shinobu Masaki, Manager of the
Brain Activity Imaging Center, was interviewed as a commentator in the
program.

Rebroadcast of the program will be from 8:30 in the morning of July 5th.

Related URL
ATR Brain Activity Imaging Center http://www.baic.jp/
ATR-Promotions http://www.atr-p.com/
NHK "Kai-Tai-Shin Show"http://www.nhk.or.jp/kaitai/top.html


2007/06/08
ATR-Promotions Starts Selling 3D Facial Expression Database.


2007/03/01
ATR-CALL won the "METI Industrial Cluster Program's Kansai Front Runner Prize 2007".


2007/02/28
ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab. and ATR-Promotions collaborated on the Special Exhibition, "Brain! Exploring Wondrous Mysteries" at the Osaka Museum of History.


2007/01/12
Announcement on Network Robots Experiments



2006


2006/12/11


ATR and FueTrek Form Business Tie-up



2006/12/11

ATR and FueTrek Form Business Tie-up



2006/11/14






Establishment of A-STAR, Joint Research Consortium for Speech Translation Technology

-Seven Asian Research Institutes: Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Taiwan�



2006/11/9,11/20

ATR Research Exposition 2006.



2006/10/19



Overseas Traveller's Translation Service, "TraCha" Launches New Content Services for Cellular Phones.



2006/09/07



SGI Japan and ATR entered the elementary school English education market.



2006/08/23


Demonstration Robot Experiments



2006/05/26



Honda Successfully Develop and ATR New Brain-Machine Interface Creating Technology for Manipulating Robots Using Human Brain Activity



2006/05/25

Robovie Live at Tomigaoka station(Kintetsu railway, Nara)



2006/05/16



Newly Born Robovie Robot! -Robovie-i-


2004

2004/ 09/28 Information about TV program

" RoboCup-2004 in Lisbon will be introduced in the following TV program.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 28, 22:00 -22:54
Station : TV Tokyo, TV Osaka
Program: "Gaia no yoake"



2004/ 08/25 Information about TV program

" Robovie"of ATR IRC will be introduced in the following program.

Date/Time: Monday, September 27, 11:05-11:54
Station : NHK Kansai area local
Program: "Gurutto Kansai Ohirumae"







2004/ 08/09 Information about TV program

" Robovie"of ATR IRC will be introduced in the following two programs.

Date/Time: Saturday, August 21, 14:00-14:30
Station : Kansai TV
Program: "Momoko no Oh! Sore! Mi-yo"


Date/Time: Saturday, August 28, 9:30-9:45
Station : TV Osaka(19ch)
Date/Time: Saturday, September 4, 17:00-17:15
Station : Nara TV(55ch)
Program: "Qtto! Science"








2004/ 07/13 Information about TV program

A"Robovie"of ATR IRC will be introduced in the following program .

Date/Time: Sunday, July 13, 21:54-10:00
Station :KansaiTV(8ch in Kansai area)
Program: "Hamamura Jun no Osaka yumesanpo"








2004/ 04/07 Information about TV program

Analysis And Synthesis Of Facial Image For Age Manipulation of ATR HIS will be introduced in the following program.

Date/Time: Sunday, April 11, 21:00-21:54
Station :Fuji Television Network (8ch in Kansai area)
Program: "Hakkutsu Aruaru daijiten"







2004/ 02/02 [Caution: Spam e-mails that take an assumed ATR domain name]

Dear, Customer

In recent weeks, there has been many spam e-mails which assume ATR's Domain name in circulation.
These e-mails are considered to be virus infected e-mails which were made by way of third partie's virus-infected computers,and it spoofs the sender name of its messages so that they appear to have been sent by different users instead of the actual users on infected machines.
Therefore, we assume no responsibility whatsover for any contents of those e-mails.
We have been keeping secure network environment and paying attention not to relay and unleash spam e-mail in our traffic.

There are no effective counterplots to the matter under the mailing system technology so far.

We ask those who received the pesky spam e-mails to understand the situation, thank you.



2003/ 11/28 Venture Expo 2003 and KANSAI Patent Distribution Fair
ATR took part in Venture Expo 2003 and KANSAI Patent Distribution Fair held at Osaka International Conference Hall (Nakanoshima, Osaka) on 25th and 26th November, 2003.

ATR showcased Robovie R and Robovie M at the Venture Expo, and ESPAR Antenna featuring security key system, Face detection and tracking system, and ATR CALL at the Patent Distrubuting Fair.
Our booths were very popular, attracting over 1000 visitors, and it is hoped this will prove positive in expanding future opportunities for technology transfer and licensing. Please click on the links to view scenes from the event.







2003/ 11/25 Information about TV program

" Robovie M"of ATR IRC will be introduced in the following program.

Date/Time: Wed,26th November 7:45AM-8:00AM
Station :NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK CORPORATION (10ch in Kansai area)
Program: "ZOOM IN SUPER"



2003/ 10/02 ============================================
First General Meeting of Network Robot Forum Takes Place
============================================
A general meeting to launch the Network Robot Forum was held at Toranomon in Tokyo on September 30, 2003.

Creating "Network Robots" by integrating ubiquitous networking and robotics is thought to contribute enormously towards Japan's role in realizing a totally new IT environment for the 21st century.

The purpose of the Network Robot Forum is to promote R&D and establish standards in network robotics. The general meeting and accompanying exhibition of robots were attended by guests including the Minister for Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Mr. Taro Aso.


2003/ 8/14
============================================
ATR workshop on Ubiquitous Experience Media (UEM2003)
============================================
The program includes invited talks by prominent researchers
from around the world as well as presentations of on-going
research at ATR laboratories.
We would like to extend our cordial invitation to participate
in the workshop to everyone who is interested in this exciting
new field.

Date: 2003/09/09(Thu) 10:30 - 18:30,10(Wed) 10:30 - 18:00
Place: Advanced Telecommunication Research Institutes
International(ATR) GF Conference Room
Language: English
Admission: Free

For the detailed information, please consult the URL following below.
http://www.mis.atr.jp/uem2003/

Contact:
UEM2003 Secretariat
e-mail: uem2003@atr.jp; fax: 0774-95-1408

2003/ 4/25 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Friday,May 02 at 19:30-20:43
Station :NHK(2CH)
Program: Atom seizou keikaku

Humanoid Robot "DB" of ATR HIS and "Robovie" of ATR IRC will be introduced in the following news program.


2003/ 3/26 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Tuesday,April 08 at 21:54-
Station :ABC(6CH)
Program: News Station

Humanoid Robot "DB" of ATR HIS will be introduced in the program.


2003/ 3/26 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Thursday,April 03 at 19:30-19:55( or 20:00-20:43)
Station :NHK(2CH)
Program: Evening News program"Closeup Gendai"

Humanoid Robot "DB" of ATR HIS and "Robovie" of IRC will be introduced in the program.


2003/ 3/26 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Monday,March 31 at 18:18-18:45
Station :ABC(6CH)
Program: Evening News program"YOU"

Humanoid Robot "DB" of ATR HIS will be introduced in the program.


2003/ 2/17 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Friday,February 21 at 19:30-19:55
Station :NHK(2CH)
Program: Special feature in the news report program"Kansai close-up".

" Robovie" of ATR IRC will be introduced in the program.

  2003/ 1/20 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Wednesday,January 22 at 18:10-
Station :NHK(2CH)
Program: "News From Kansai"special corner.

The discussion which had hold 29th of Novembe at ATR,
about experiment of Robovie at elementary school will be shown in the following program.


2002/12/11 Information about TV program

Date/Time: Sunday, December 15 at 22:30-23:30
Station :YOMIURI(10CH) Kansai area
Program: "Osaka Honwaka TV"

" FUTON" of ATR HIS will be introduced in the program.
They are going to show how the faces of the casts will change after 30 years with "FUTON".

2002/07/03 President Rau from the Federal Republic of Germany Visit ATR



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