Editorial Board:
1990 – 1993 The Robotics Review (MIT Press) Editorial Board Member
1994 – 1995 IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Associate Editor
1995 – 1997 Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Franklin Institute
1996 – 1997 Associate Editor, International Journal of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
1998 Editor in Chief, Journal of Robotics Society of Japan
2002 – 2022 Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Robotics Research
2022－ Advisory Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Robotics Research
2008－ Editor, Cognitive Systems Monographs Series, Springer
2009－ Associate Editor, Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series, MIT Press
2018－ Editorial Board member, Science Robotics
Organizer:
1993 Tutorial on “Force and Contact Control in Robotic Systems” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Co-Organizer with Prof. Miomir Vukobratobic
2003 Organizer, Workshop on “Bilateral Paradigms of Human and Humanoid,” IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
2005 Co-Organizer, IEEE-RAS/IFRR International Summer School of Robotics Science, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Co-Organizer, IEEE ICRA2006 Workshop: Understanding Humanoid Robots, Orlando, Florida, USA
2008 Co-Organizer, IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Robot Services in Aging Society, Nice, France.
2008 Organizer, ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference on Robotics, Shonan, Kanagawa, Japan
Conference Chair:
1995 Program Chair, JSME Annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics
2005 Program Co-Chair, IEEE-RAS International Conference of Humanoid Robots, Tsukuba, Japan
2005 Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Advanced Robotics
2007 Program Chair, International Symposium of Robotics Research, Hiroshima, Japan
2008 Program Chair, 17th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control (Romansy), Tokyo, Japan
2016 General Chair, International Symposium of Experimental Robotics
2017 Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2018 Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Committee Members (current):
IEEE-RAS AdCom (2021-2023)
IEEE-RAS Committee to Aid Reporting on Misconduct Concerns (CARES 2021-)