OMRON SINIC X Corporation (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Masaki Suwa; hereinafter referred to as "OSX") is pleased to announce that a research paper by Principal Investigator Shigeo Yoshida, among others, has been accepted for the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).

CHI is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. A total of 1,060 papers(About 26%) were accepted out of 4,028 submissions in 2024. The conference takes place in Honolulu, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, USA from 11-16 May 2024. A paper accepted for CHI 2024 presents a new embodied system concept, Swarm Body:　embodied swarm robots, a group of robots collectively acting as a human body part.

■Paper accepted for CHI 2024

Title	Swarm Body: Embodied Swarm Robots
Authors	Sosuke Ichihashi (OSX)、So Kuroki (OSX)、Mai Nishimura (OSX)、Kazumi Kasaura (OSX)、Takefumi Hiraki (Cluster, Inc. Metaverse Lab)、Kazutoshi Tanaka (OSX)、Shigeo Yoshida (OSX)
Related page	https://medium.com/@shigeo.yoshida/69bc10abfd64

※Affiliation at the time of submission

For a list of OSX's publications, please visit
https://www.omron.com/jp/ja/technology/publications/?affiliation=%5B%22OSX%22%5D

About OMRON SINIC X Corporation
OMRON SINIC X Corporation is a strategic subsidiary seeking to realize the "near future designs" that OMRON forecasts. It is comprised of researchers with cutting-edge knowledge and experience across a wide range of technological domains, including AI, Robotics, IoT, and sensing. With the aim of addressing social issues, OSX integrates innovative technologies with business models and strategies in technology and IP to create near-future designs. Additionally, the company accelerates the creation of these designs through collaborative research with universities and external research institutions. For more details, please refer tohttps://www.omron.com/sinicx/en/

OMRON SINIC X Research Paper Accepted for CHI 2024, the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction