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Konyo-Takahashi Lab
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An embodied intelligence lab that creates tactile sensations and conveys them over a distance.
AboutAbout the lab
Combining body and intelligence opens new possibilities for robots and communication.
The Konyo-Takahashi Lab studies the connections among sensation, movement, and cognition from the perspective of embodied intelligence.
The sense of touch is important for conveying a sense of presence and for understanding skills.
The lab works on haptic display devices, tactile signal processing, interfaces for bodily experience, and tactile sensors for robots.
By sharing touch and bodily sensations, the lab aims to convey the physical experience of being on the spot, even from far away.
Key terms
- Haptic display device
- A device that stimulates the skin, for example with vibration, to create the sensation of touch
- Embodied intelligence
- A view of intelligence in which movement and decision-making are refined through interaction between the body and its environment
- Grasping
- Holding an object in the hand; a basic action of both the human hand and robot hands
- MEMS
- Very small mechanical parts and elements made with semiconductor microfabrication technology
NewsLab news
The commercialization project "TouchStar" won the Next Generation Category Award at CEATEC AWARD 2025
A student won an Encouragement Poster Award at SIT2025
A master's student won the JSME Young Presentation Excellence Fellow Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers at ROBOMECH 2025
Developed a skills education system using tactile reproduction technology (press release)
ResearchResearch themes
As the word "taikan" (bodily experience) suggests, the sense of touch is important for conveying a sense of presence and for understanding skills. From the perspective of embodied intelligence, the lab works on haptic display devices, tactile signal processing and quantification, interfaces for bodily experience, and tactile sensors for robots.
*Illustrative imageSignal processing for realistic vibration experiences
Small vibration devices in smartphones and game consoles have difficulty producing vibration across a wide frequency band, which limits the quality of the experience. Based on the characteristics of human vibration perception, the lab proposes a technique that converts signals so that small devices can reproduce them while preserving the sensation.
*Illustrative imageRemote transmission and sharing of bodily experience
The lab develops fundamental technology that spatially records vibrations transmitted through the body and sends them over a distance, delivering skills and a sense of presence. It also works with several institutions, including AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), on bidirectional haptic interfaces using thin-film MEMS devices.
*Illustrative imageSpatial vibration
Like spatial audio, this technology lets the body sense the position of an external vibration source. By applying vibrations to multiple places on the body and controlling the bias in how they are felt, it makes people perceive a vibration source in a specific direction and at a specific distance.
*Illustrative imageSkin sensation that produces dexterity
The lab built a system that connects a high-resolution tactile display, which reproduces the tactile information at the contact surface when an object is grasped, with a real-time simulation of fingertip pad deformation. It uses this system to investigate the role of touch in human grasping and manipulation.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Konyo-Takahashi Lab include faculty, academic researchers, collaborative researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, exchange students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasashi Konyo
- Assistant ProfessorAkifumi Takahashi
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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: “3ds Touch Haptic Device” ApLundell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Signal processing for realistic vibration experiences: “Gamecontrollerinternal” Eoin Houston / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Remote transmission and sharing of bodily experience: “Remote control robot attempts to open vehicle with mock bomb (7136606)” U.S. Army photo by Sandra Wilson / Public domain (cropped)
- Spatial vibration: “Surround sound 5.1 speaker setup surround channels red” Daniel Christensen (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Skin sensation that produces dexterity: “Left hand holding pen” Magioladitis / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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