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Hayashibe-Zhu Lab
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A lab that uses neuroscience and AI to apply the mechanisms of human movement to robots.
AboutAbout the lab
Transferring the mechanisms of the brain and body to robots.
The Hayashibe-Zhu Lab is a neurorobotics lab that combines neuroscience, robotics, biosignal processing, and AI.
The lab investigates how nerves produce human movement and applies those ideas to robot control and motor learning.
It works on research in which robots learn how to move through deep reinforcement learning, and on research related to gait rehabilitation for stroke patients.
The lab belongs to both the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, and conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates medicine and engineering.
Key terms
- Deep reinforcement learning
- A learning method in which a computer itself discovers effective ways to move through repeated trial and error
- Biosignals
- Electrical and other signals emitted from the body when muscles and nerves are active
- Neurorehabilitation
- Rehabilitation that focuses on the workings of the brain and nerves to restore motor function
NewsLab news
Developed AI technology that judges front and back from tactile information and automatically generates two-handed robot motions
Developed a technology that predicts the movements of stroke patients using a small amount of data and two sensors
A doctoral student received the Nippon Broadcasting Award at the Advanced Technology Grand Prize for Pioneering Originality
Developed a control method that fully utilizes the muscle redundancy of musculoskeletal robots
Developed foundational technology for generative AI that imitates the movements of living organisms
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to gain a deep understanding of humans' abilities to adapt to the environment and learn movements, from both engineering and brain science perspectives. It seeks to connect the findings to robot control and to rehabilitation that draws out the effects of motor learning.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Hayashibe-Zhu Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorMitsuhiro Hayashibe
- Assistant ProfessorWei Zhu
- Assistant ProfessorNingquan Gu
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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: “Cronos humanoid robot” Science Swiss @ Singapore / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Understanding Motor Control and Learning, and Rehabilitation: “EXO-Robot gait trainer at Palon ReWalk” Shefali.assam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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