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Human-Centered Robotics Lab
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The lab uses robotics to understand and apply the motor intelligence of the human body.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding human motor intelligence through robotics.
The Human-Centered Robotics Lab uses robotics technologies grounded in mechanical engineering to study the motor intelligence of the human body.
The lab works both on understanding motor intelligence mathematically and mechanically, and on its engineering applications.
Recent news items introduce research on estimating the state of the fingers of a flexible multi-fingered robot hand using proximity sensors mounted on the fingers.
They also introduce research on extracting the information needed for a task from high-speed sensor data and using it for motion planning of industrial robots.
Key terms
- Proximity sensing
- The sense of detecting objects near the body without touching them. It is studied as a sense specific to robots
- High-speed sensors
- Sensors, such as high-speed cameras and optical proximity sensors, that can capture in detail phenomena faster than the operating speed of ordinary industrial robots
NewsLab news
A paper on motion planning for musculoskeletal robots by a graduate of the lab was published in Advanced Robotics
A paper with a master's student as first author was published in the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
A paper with a doctoral student as first author was published in the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
ResearchResearch themes
The Human-Centered Robotics Lab uses robotics technologies grounded in mechanical engineering to study the mathematical and mechanical understanding of the advanced motor intelligence of the human body, and its engineering applications. The research page lists soft robots, multi-fingered robot hands, force control, proximity sensing, high-speed sensors, musculoskeletal robots, artificial muscle actuators, legged-wheeled mobile robots, and continuously variable transmission mechanisms.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The members of the Human-Centered Robotics Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenji Tahara
- Associate ProfessorHikaru Arita
- Associate ProfessorKazuto Nakashima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Shadow Hand Bulb large” Richard Greenhill and Hugo Elias (myself) of the Shadow Robot Company / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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