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Kurabayashi Lab
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A lab that learns from living organisms and swarms to realize robots that behave intelligently.
AboutAbout the lab
Robots that act intelligently as a swarm
The Kurabayashi Lab studies robot systems capable of intelligent behavior.
The lab covers everything from the control algorithms that drive robots to the mechanical parts and how they are integrated into a system.
The core of its research is robots that act intelligently as a swarm, like a colony of ants, and clarifying the mechanisms that produce that intelligence.
The lab examines the bodies and behavior of living organisms such as silkmoths and applies those mechanisms to robots.
Key terms
- Algorithm
- The procedure or rules of calculation used when having a computer perform processing
- Silkmoth
- The adult moth of the silkworm, which humans have raised to produce silk. It cannot fly
- Sex pheromone
- A chemical substance released outside the body by an organism that attracts members of the opposite sex of the same species
ResearchResearch themes
The Kurabayashi Lab aims to realize robot systems capable of intelligent behavior. Its research centers on “robots that act intelligently as a swarm” and on clarifying the “system principles that give rise to intelligence.”
*Illustrative imageAir-Intake Mechanisms Learned from the Silkmoth
Male silkmoths search for females using sex pheromones. The lab investigates, through measurements and robot experiments, how they flap their wings to guide odors to their antennae, and works toward efficient artificial olfaction.
*Illustrative imageRobots That Search for Odor Sources
Tracing odors in the air to reach their source is a difficult task for robots. Modeling the behavior of the silkmoth, the lab aims to find odor sources efficiently with both ground robots and robots that move through the air.
*Illustrative imageHow Vision Is Used in Odor Searching
Male silkmoths with their eyes covered have difficulty reaching females. The lab investigates how vision is used when searching for odors by measuring the neural signals sent from the brain to the body.
*Illustrative imageDisturbance-Resilient Systems Learned from Living Organisms
The lab studies how living organisms adapt flexibly to environmental changes and external stimuli, looking at the locomotion of nematodes and the responses of cells. Applying this, it builds swarm robot systems that are robust to failures and environmental changes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kurabayashi Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorDaisuke KurabayashiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHayato DanPublications ↗
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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: “Ant Colony Trail” Prof OJ / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Air-Intake Mechanisms Learned from the Silkmoth: “CSIRO ScienceImage 10746 An adult silkworm moth” CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Robots That Search for Odor Sources: “E-puck- -robot-photo” Stéphane Magnenat / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- How Vision Is Used in Odor Searching: “Adult Moth of Bombyx mori” LuffyNamiZoro / CC0 (cropped)
- Disturbance-Resilient Systems Learned from Living Organisms: “Kilobot robot swarm” asuscreative / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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