Shuntaro Aotake presented the following paper at the 4th International Conference on Resilience, Multi-risk, and Structural Monitoring (ICONREM2026), which was held in Florence, Italy, from June 16 to 19.


We are pleased to share that Flat Earth Food: A Copernican Shift in How We Grow, Eat and Heal, the new book by Johan Jörgensen, has been published.
Drawing on insights from ecology, soil science, nutrition, immunology, economics, and systems thinking, Flat Earth Food argues that many of today’s most pressing challenges—from chronic disease and biodiversity loss to environmental degradation and economic inequality—are not separate problems, but interconnected manifestations of a deeper systemic imbalance.
The book challenges what Johan describes as a “Flat Earth” worldview: a tendency to simplify and separate phenomena that are, in reality, deeply connected. In its place, he proposes a more integrated understanding of food systems, health, ecosystems, and society, revealing how the relationships between them shape both human and planetary wellbeing.
Among the examples featured in the book is Synecoculture, a biodiversity-centered approach to agriculture that seeks to work with ecological complexity rather than reduce it. The book highlights how biodiversity, productivity, public health, and ecosystem health can be understood as mutually reinforcing dimensions of a single living system.
More broadly, Flat Earth Food invites readers to rethink the foundations of modern food systems and to explore what a truly regenerative and health-promoting future might look like.
For researchers, practitioners, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in the future of food, health, and sustainability, this book offers a compelling and thought-provoking perspective on one of the defining challenges of our time.
Learn more at: https://flatearthfood.com/
Ryota Sakayama made an online presentation of the following paper at the 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE2026), which was held at Benidorm, Spain, on 20-22 May 2026.
The following article has been published:
日本ロボット学会誌/42 巻 (2024) 10 号に、以下の論文が掲載されました。
協生農法環境における農作業支援ロボットの開発—第8報:アーム先端部で交換可能な複数種対応の 種植え機構および種子団子製造機の開発—土井 瑛人, 前田 菜夏香, 田中 大雅, 政谷 巧樹, 青竹 峻太郎, 舩橋 真俊, 三木 浩, 大谷 拓也, 高西 淳夫

続報として、日本ロボット学会誌/43 巻 (2025) 1 号 に、以下の論文が掲載されました。
協生農法環境における農作業支援ロボットの開発—第9報:パラレルコンベックス駆動による高伸縮比アーム—前田 菜夏香, 土井 瑛人, 政谷 巧樹, 田中 大雅, 青竹 峻太郎, 舩橋 真俊, 三木 浩, 大谷 拓也, 高西 淳夫

Masa Funabashi and Taka Sasaki presented the following papers at the 5th World Conference on Complex Systems, which was held on November 11th and 12th, 2024, in Casablanca, Morocco.


The abstract book is available here.
Link to the IEEE Proceeding of the 2024 World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS)
