// PERSON
Ryo Watanabe
ROLE RESEARCHER / CO-AUTHORAT TELEXISTENCE INC.MENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 26, 2026
// BIO
Ryo Watanabe is a researcher at Telexistence Inc. in Japan, affiliated with the company's Foundation Model Division. He is best known for his work on imitation learning policies for contact-rich robotic manipulation, particularly as first author of FTACT, which augments the Action Chunking Transformer with force and torque sensing for retail robot tasks. He has also contributed to locomotion research, including work on quiet walking for small home robots presented at ICRA 2025.
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mention·University of Tokyo, NABLAS Research·MAY 26, 2026
“Ryo Watanabe... Co-author and first author on the prior FTACT paper that established the bottle recovery task baseline this work builds on.”
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