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JSK Lab (Information Systems Engineering Lab / Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory) (Okada Lab)
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The lab researches intelligent robots and humanoids that work in people's living spaces.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward intelligent robots that thrive in people's daily lives
The Information Systems Engineering Lab (JSK) researches the functions and systems essential for intelligent robots that work in human society and living environments.
From the perspectives of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and biological systems, the lab works on humanoids (human-shaped robots) and other robots.
The lab's research covers many differently shaped robots, such as musculoskeletal humanoids that imitate the human body and robots that fly while changing shape.
The lab brings together people who learn alongside senior students and want to take on new challenges that have never been attempted before.
Key terms
- Humanoid
- A robot with a human-like body shape, including a head, arms, and legs
- Musculoskeletal humanoid
- A humanoid robot built by imitating the human skeleton and the mechanisms of muscles and tendons
- Open source
- Software whose program contents are made public so that anyone can use and improve it
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the functions and systems that future intelligent robots will need in order to work in human social and living spaces. Its work covers humanoids that support daily life, musculoskeletal humanoids, humanoids that move the whole body dynamically, and open-source robot software.
*Illustrative imageHumanoids That Support Daily Life
Using the life-size humanoid robot "HRP2JSK," the lab studies assistive motions in which the robot recognizes situations in living environments, learns from people, and handles furniture and tools while interacting with them.
*Illustrative imageHumanoids Driven by Muscles and Tendons
With the musculoskeletal humanoid "Kojiro," the lab studies how to build a body with a very large number of joints and sensors that moves powerfully and flexibly like a human, as well as the mechanisms by which it grows and develops.
*Illustrative imageSoft Humanoids That Make Physical Contact with People
The whole body of a small humanoid is covered with a soft foam exterior equipped with sensors, and the lab studies mechanisms for close physical contact with people through whole-body movement.
*Illustrative imageHumanoids That Move the Whole Body Dynamically
By combining joint drive circuits capable of producing large forces, perception that quickly captures the surrounding environment in three dimensions, and mechanisms for dynamic whole-body control, the lab produces dynamic whole-body movements.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Information Systems Engineering Lab consist of faculty, technical specialists, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorKei OkadaPublications ↗
- LecturerKunio Kojima
- LecturerKento KawaharazukaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorIori YanokuraPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorShun HasegawaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorTasuku MakabePublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorYoshiki ObinataPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorAkihiro MikiPublications ↗
- Project LecturerYuki AsanoPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Ars Electronica 2008 Kotaro” Manfred Werner - Tsui / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Humanoids That Support Daily Life: “NKM -- Visite des laboratoires de robotique de l'Université de Tokyo ( )” Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Humanoids Driven by Muscles and Tendons: “Roboy 270213 1” Adrian Baer / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Soft Humanoids That Make Physical Contact with People: “EGO” Centro di Ricerca "Enrico Piaggio", University of Pisa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Humanoids That Move the Whole Body Dynamically: “Axe inertiel pour un humanoïde en simple contact” Tastalian / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takeuchi-Nie Lab): “Lab on a Chip ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (ISI Lab): “Icub full body” Jll at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Fukao-Nishio Lab): “Autonomous compact tractors in a Texas vineyard, Nov 2012” ASIrobots / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nihei Lab): “Rollator” DirkvdM / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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