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Takayama Lab
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A lab that builds robots and medical devices using mechanisms with unusual motions.
AboutAbout the lab
If the device doesn't exist, build it; if you can't build it, start with the machine that builds it.
The Takayama Lab studies the development of new devices, centered on mechanisms that move in unusual ways.
The lab builds mechanisms that can be used in mobile robots, robotic hands, and medical devices, and has recently also put effort into developing microfluidic devices.
The lab is equipped with machine tools, microscopes, and other equipment, and develops devices with unprecedented motions through trial and error.
Key terms
- Mechanism
- A system that combines parts such as gears and links to produce a defined motion
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Surgery performed by inserting a camera and thin rod-shaped instruments through small holes made in the abdomen
- Microfluidic device
- A device that flows or mixes small amounts of liquid inside extremely narrow channels
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Life Engineering Course Outstanding Master's Thesis Presentation Award
A student received the Best Seed Award from the Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops devices based mainly on mechanisms with unusual motions that can be applied to mobile robots, robotic hands, medical devices, and more. It has recently also put effort into developing microfluidic devices.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms for medicine
So far, the lab has developed a suturing instrument for laparoscopic surgery that is assembled inside the abdomen, a self-propelled endoscope that passes naturally through the curved large intestine, and a device that applies pressure to cells to grow them.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms that switch between speed and force
To achieve both fast motion and large force, the lab has developed a robotic hand in which separate motors handle speed and force, a transmission device that changes speed depending on how the motor is rotated, and a two-way clutch that can rotate at high speed.
*Illustrative imageSoft mechanisms
The lab has developed in-pipe locomotion devices made of bundled or braided tubes driven by air pressure, actuators intended for use inside MRI scanners, and bag-shaped grippers that wrap around and grasp objects.
*Illustrative imageSmall mechanisms
The lab has developed micromixers for cell culture and chemical experiments under a microscope, micropumps that move liquid by moving the walls of a channel, and a device that observes the deformation of red blood cells from multiple directions at the same time.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Takayama Lab consist of faculty and students from each year.
- Associate ProfessorToshio TakayamaPublications ↗
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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: “Worm drive ( )” Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand / CC0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms for medicine: “Laparoscopic Hand Instruments 001 JPN” ignis / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms that switch between speed and force: “NIST Dexterous Manipulation Testbed ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Soft mechanisms: “Soft under-actuated fish-like robot” Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado / CC0 (cropped)
- Small mechanisms: “Microfluidic chip for point-of-care medical devices” FMNLab / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (西迫研究室): “T Junction Microfluidic Device” Wongbria / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (石田研究室): “Microfluidic chip for point-of-care medical devices” FMNLab / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (進士研究室): “Science show magnetic levitation” Roberto Arias from London, United Kingdom / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (金研究室): “Bug 1c” Sandia National Laboratories / Public domain (cropped)
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