1. Honorable mention demonstration award, Sociable Creatures for Child-Robot Interaction Studies, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'13, March 3-6, 2013, Tokyo, Japan. 2013.

2. Best robot design, Peepho:Towards A Future Social Eyepiece, The Fourth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2012), (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Chengdu, China.

3. Second prize for inaugural robot design competition, INAMO: Towards a Future Imaginary Navigator, The International conference on social robotic (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) November 24-25 Amsterdam, The Netherland.

4. Excellence award, Sociable Dining Table: research of mutual adaptation process towards the primitive symbol acquisition and sharing, 9th Information Science Workshop WiNF 2011, Japan.

5. Outstanding research award, Proposal of social interface based on the multiparty conversation and its applications, Journal of Human-Agent Interactions 2010.

5. Best paper award, Mimicking and Evaluating Human Motion to Apply a Robot to Improving Imitation Skill of Children with Autism, International Conference on Social Robotic (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Singapore, 2010.

6. Best paper finalist-award, STB: Intentional Stance Grounded Child-dependent Robot, International Conference on Social Robotic (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) Singapore, 2010.

7. Third prize award in robot design competition, ROBOMO: A Futuristic Personalized-Accompanying Sociable Creature, International Conference on Social Robotic (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) Singapore, 2010.

. Third prize award in robot design competition, ROBOMO: A Futuristic Personalized-Accompanying Sociable Creature, International Conference on Social Robotic (Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) Singapore, 2010.