Toward the Age of Robotics
		FUGONO Nobuyosohi, President
	When Network Robots Come into Our Lives
		WATANABE Charley Katsuya, Director, Research and Development Office, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
	Humanoid Brain Project - Aiming to Achieve the Atom Plan
		KAWATO Mitsuo, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
	Ubiquitous Intelligent Robotics
		KOGURE Kiyoshi, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
	Everyday Robots as a New Information Infrastructure
		ISHIGURO Hiroshi, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
	Toward Heart-to-Heart Speech Interface with Robots
		NAKAMURA Satoshi, Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
	Cyber Rodents: Self-Preserving, Self-Reproducing Robotic Colony
		DOYA Kenji, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
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		TAKAHASHI Machi