Dr. El Hafi Lotfi received ”the HSR Community Research Encouragement Award” from the Technical Committee on Intelligent Home Robotics of the Robotics Society of Japan. Dr. El Hafi Lotfi is a research faculty member affiliated with the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization, where he is engaged in research for the Research Center IV “Making Older People’s Lives and Productive Labor” and “International Research Center for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence and Semiotics” projects.