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Cybernics Lab
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The lab pioneers "Cybernics," a new field in which humans, machines, and information become one.
AboutAbout the lab
Achieving development rare in human history.
The Cybernics Lab is pioneering "Cybernics," a new field that fuses humans, AI robots, and information systems, with cybernetics, mechatronics, and information science at its core.
It aims to improve, support, augment, and regenerate human abilities, which have limits, through technology, such as wearable cyborgs that assist people from the outside and artificial hearts that assist people from the inside.
University of Tsukuba students, including those in the College of Engineering Systems, who wish to join the lab must attend the lab assignment briefing held in winter.
Students coming from other universities must take the entrance exam for graduate programs such as the Degree Program in Intelligent and Mechanical Interaction Systems.
Key terms
- Cybernics
- A new field that fuses humans, AI robots, and information systems, with cybernetics, mechatronics, and information science at its core
- Wearable cyborg
- A device that assists people from the outside. It aims to improve, support, augment, and regenerate human abilities that have limits
- Human-cooperative robot
- A robot that can reflect a person's intention to move. It is one means of improving independence in daily life
NewsLab news
The robot suit "HAL-3" was registered as an Essential Historical Material for Science and Technology by the National Museum of Nature and Science
A paper was accepted by the Journal of Clinical Medicine
A paper was accepted by the Japanese journal Regenerative Medicine (Saisei Iryo)
Students received the College Dean's Award, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Outstanding Student Award, and the Robotics Society of Japan Outstanding Student Award
ResearchResearch themes
The Cybernics Lab studies a field that fuses robotics, neuroscience, IT, ergonomics, physiology, social science, and psychology, with cybernetics, mechatronics, and information science at its center. Its research is presented in four categories: "Social Implementation of Innovative Cybernic Systems," "Medical Cybernics," "Integrated Cybernic Systems," and "Cybernic Interfaces, Devices, and Systems."
*Illustrative imageIntegrating Humans, Robots, and Cyberspace
Declines in motor and cognitive function due to aging or disease make daily life and communication difficult. As one way to improve independence in daily life, this research takes up the development of human-cooperative robots that can reflect a person's intention to move, targeting patients with intractable neurological diseases and older adults.
*Illustrative imageGait Function Assessment During Cybernics Treatment
This research aims to capture and evaluate changes in physical function in patients with neurological and neuromuscular diseases who receive Cybernics treatment with the medical HAL.
*Illustrative imageMotion Capture from 3D Skeletal Information
The lab develops technology for capturing people's movements and behavior in everyday activities. Using skeleton inference processing, it measures 3D skeletal information of the whole body and fingers in real time without contact or worn devices, and is advancing technology to recognize movements and behavior and to judge whether they are being performed appropriately.
*Illustrative imageDetecting Epileptic Seizures from Forehead EEG
To enable detection of epileptic seizures in daily life, the lab studies algorithms that detect epileptiform abnormal waves from local EEG recorded at the forehead. It has built a method that converts single-channel forehead EEG into images and detects abnormal waves with an ensemble model using image recognition techniques, aiming to realize a seizure detection system.
MembersFaculty
Cybernics Lab members consist of faculty, graduate students in the master's (first-stage) and doctoral (second-stage) programs, and undergraduate college students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshiyuki Sankai
- ProfessorHiroaki Kawamoto
- Assistant ProfessorAkira Uehara
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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: “Swarmbots ( )” Anders Sandberg from Oxford, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Integrating Humans, Robots, and Cyberspace: “Hybrid Assistive Limb” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Gait Function Assessment During Cybernics Treatment: “Rehabilitation physician polyelectromyography” Jung TM, Kim AR, Lee Y, Kim DH, Kim DY / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Motion Capture from 3D Skeletal Information: “Body Motion Capture” Raíssa Ruschel / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Detecting Epileptic Seizures from Forehead EEG: “ISS-65 Dreams Experiment” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (人工知能研究室): “Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot test aboard USS Shadwell (LSD-15) in November 2014” U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (藪野研究室): “Mechanical Vibration Facility's Table - Modal Test (Free-Free)” Illudium Pu-36 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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制御・計測研究室): “COLOR IMAGE OF THE FLOW VISUALIZATION RIG - BLACK & WHITE IMAGE OF DIFFUSER EXPERIMENT RIG - NARA - 17448953” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped) - Related lab (生体情報処理研究室): “Neural network explain” TseKiChun / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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