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Kobayashi Lab
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A robotics and assistive technology lab that developed and commercialized the Muscle Suit.
AboutAbout the lab
Making things that are truly useful and widely used.
The Kobayashi Lab is the lab of Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, who specializes in intelligent mechanical engineering, assistive technology, image processing, robotics, and mechatronics.
The lab commercializes its research and development results as products.
The "Muscle Suit" was developed and commercialized independently by the lab, and Innophys Co., Ltd., a Tokyo University of Science startup, was founded to commercialize and sell it.
The research section on the lab's top page lists topics such as motion analysis, binary cycle power generation, swallowing robots, active walkers, and space toilets.
Key terms
- Muscle Suit
- The name of a product that the Kobayashi Lab developed and commercialized independently. Innophys Co., Ltd. turns the lab's development results into products one after another.
- Tokyo University of Science startup
- A company founded to commercialize and sell the lab's development results. In this lab's case, examples include Innophys.
NewsLab news
Prof. Kobayashi received the 9th Tateisi Prize
Innophys released the Muscle Suit Soft-Power EASY-LIFT
Innophys released the Muscle Suit HARNESS PLUS
ResearchResearch themes
The Kobayashi Lab aims to make things that are truly useful and widely used, and it commercializes what it researches and develops as products. The research section on the top page lists topics such as the Muscle Suit, human motion analysis, binary cycle power generation, swallowing robots, and active walkers.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Kobayashi Lab consist of faculty members, master's and undergraduate students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroshi Kobayashi
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Hybrid Assistive Limb” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Development and Commercialization of the Muscle Suit: “Shadow Hand Bulb large” Richard Greenhill and Hugo Elias (myself) of the Shadow Robot Company / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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