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Harada Lab (Medical Materials and Devices Engineering)
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The lab researches medical robots that use robotics technology to support surgery and experiments.
AboutAbout the lab
Robotics to support surgery and experiments
The Harada Lab uses robotics technology to research medical robots that assist with surgery and experiments.
The lab develops robots to support pediatric surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmic surgery, and more, in collaboration with hospital clinical departments.
The core of the research is advanced assistance systems in which a robot performs part or all of a task automatically.
Applying surgical assistance technology, the lab also builds robots that support delicate physical and chemical experiments under a microscope.
Key terms
- VR simulator
- A system that recreates scenes such as surgery inside a computer, allowing users to practice operations and have their skills evaluated
- Vitreoretinal surgery
- Surgery in which thin instruments are inserted into the eyeball to treat diseases of the retina and vitreous body at the back of the eye
- Pathology
- The examination of tissue removed from the body, using a microscope and other methods, to diagnose the type and extent of a disease
NewsLab news
An Assistant Professor received the Outstanding Paper Award at ICRA
A master's student received the ACCAS 2024 Best Paper Award
ResearchResearch themes
With the aim of developing foundational technologies for medical devices and biomedical materials intended for clinical application, the lab integrates basic medicine and clinical medicine with bioengineering, particularly mechanical engineering. Using robotics and VR simulation technologies, it studies robots and systems that support surgery and physical and chemical experiments, as well as their semi-automation and automation.
*Illustrative imageRobots supporting pediatric surgery
The lab develops methods that automatically guide surgical instruments so that they avoid colliding with other robots or with tissue, even in confined spaces such as the inside of a newborn's body. It also studies how to quantify surgeons' skills using a VR simulator.
*Illustrative imageRobots supporting neurosurgery
To support tasks that are difficult even for experienced surgeons, such as suturing deep inside the nose and connecting extremely thin blood vessels, the lab works on making SmartArm, a surgical robot developed in the ImPACT Program, more intelligent and automated.
*Illustrative imageRobots supporting ophthalmic surgery
The lab studies the automation of robotic systems that assist with vitreoretinal surgery. These systems can incorporate control that automatically avoids collisions between instruments, and contact between instruments and the inner surface of the eyeball.
*Illustrative imageRobots supporting pathology work
Before tissue removed during surgery can be observed under a microscope, pathologists must do a great deal of manual work. The lab has developed a robotic platform that cuts out formalin-fixed tissue samples.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Harada Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral and master's students, and interns.As of 2026
- ProfessorKanako HaradaPublications ↗
- Assistant Professorサウル・アレクシス エレディア・
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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: “WBAMC first in DoD to use robot for surgery 160426-A-EK666-526” Marcy Sanchez / Public domain (cropped)
- Robots supporting pediatric surgery: “Blausen 0602 Laparoscopy 02” BruceBlaus. When using this image in external sources it can be cited as: Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN . / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Robots supporting neurosurgery: “Tiniest scissors ever” yuko chan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Robots supporting ophthalmic surgery: “Vitrectomy3727-PH” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Robots supporting pathology work: “Incomplete fixation” Tameem Baker / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (山川研究室): “Prototype robot parallèle PAR4” FrancoisPierrot34 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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