2026
AI-IoT-Robotics Integration: Survey of Frameworks, Emerging Trends, and the Path Toward Connected Robotics
Ranulfo Bezerra, Satoshi Tadokoro, Kazunori Ohno
IEEE Internet Things J.·Journal
05
Reasoning that cannot run on the robot is not reasoning the robot can use.
The other four pillars are constrained by what a physical agent can actually compute, in time, on a power budget, in the field. This pillar develops compact models grounded in graph representations, distributes inference across the robot-IoT-edge continuum, and validates in simulation before hardware.
Open questions
What is the smallest model that can reason usefully over a physical knowledge graph?
How should inference be split across a robot, a sensor node, and an edge server?
What transfers from simulation, and what never will?
01/Methods and topics
02/Research funding
2025
Reasoning Over IoT and Robot Vision for Hazardous Scene Understanding
NVIDIA — Academic Grant Program (DGX Spark)·Principal Investigator
2024 — 2025
Optimizing Robot Response: Using SLMs for Robotic Data Synthesis and LLMs for Interpretation
Tough Cyber-Physical AI Research Center — Joint Research Project·Principal Investigator
03/Related projects
04/Representative publications
13
2026
Ranulfo Bezerra, Satoshi Tadokoro, Kazunori Ohno
IEEE Internet Things J.·Journal
2026
Mohammed Elseiagy, Tsige Tadesse Alemayoh, Ranulfo Bezerra, Shotaro Kojima, Kazunori Ohno
IEEE/SICE SII 2026·Conference
2026
Murilo Vinicius da Silva, Ricardo V. Godoy, Juliano Negri, Gustavo J. G. Lahr, Ranulfo Bezerra, Marcelo Becker
arXiv·Preprint
2026
Dilermando Almeida, Juliano Negri, Guilherme Lazzarini, Thiago Henrique Segreto Silva, Ranulfo Bezerra, Ricardo V. Godoy, Marcelo Becker
arXiv·Preprint
2025
Nathan Pascal Walus, Ranulfo Bezerra, Shotaro Kojima, Tsige Tadesse Alemayoh, Satoshi Tadokoro, Kazunori Ohno
IEEE SSRR 2025·Conference
2024
João Pedro Gomes Carvalho, Ranulfo Bezerra, Ricardo de Andrade Lira Rabelo, João Pedro Soares Do Monte
LARS 2024·Conference
2024
Christoph Liebender, Ranulfo Bezerra, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro
IEEE CASE 2024·Conference
2024
Kenta Gunji, Kazunori Ohno, Shuhei Kurita, Ken Sakurada, Ranulfo Bezerra, Shotaro Kojima, Yoshito Okada, Masashi Konyo, Satoshi Tadokoro
IEEE Access·Journal
2023
Yoshito Okada, Kazuya Oguma, Kenta Gunji, Yoshiki Yokota, Hanif Aryadi, Shotaro Kojima, Ranulfo Bezerra, Masashi Konyo, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro
ICAR 2023·Conference
2024
Ranulfo Bezerra, Kazunori Ohno, Shotaro Kojima, Satoshi Tadokoro
RSJ 2024·Domestic conference
2023
Ranulfo Bezerra, Yuta Suzuki, Kazunori Ohno, Shotaro Kojima, Satoshi Tadokoro
RSJ 2023·Domestic conference
2025
Nathan Walus, Ranulfo Bezerra, Kazunori Ohno
ROBOMECH 2025·Domestic conference
2025
Ahmed Youssef, Ranulfo Bezerra, Tsige Tadesse Alemayoh, Shotaro Kojima, Kazunori Ohno
ROBOMECH 2025·Domestic conference