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Kudoh Lab
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A lab that researches robots that are useful to people, collaborate with them, and entertain them in the real world.
AboutAbout the lab
Robots that help, collaborate with, and entertain people
The Kudoh-Kimura Lab researches robots that are useful to people, collaborate with people, and entertain people in the real world.
The research targets include daily-life support robots, service robots, industrial robots, humanoids, shape-changing robots, and climbing robots.
Because intelligent systems cannot be built without integrating many component technologies, the faculty members combine their areas of expertise to cooperate in research and education.
Professor Kudoh specializes in observing and understanding human behavior and in computer vision, and Associate Professor Kimura specializes in intelligent robotics and control.
Key terms
- Computer vision
- Technology that lets computers understand the positions and movements of objects from camera video and images.
- Climbing robot
- A robot that moves by climbing non-horizontal surfaces such as fences, walls, and nets.
- Manipulator
- An arm mechanism, such as a robot arm, that grasps and moves objects.
NewsLab news
Graduation research assignments to the Kudoh-Kimura Lab for FY2027
Graduation research assignments to the Kudoh-Kimura Lab for FY2026
Graduation research assignments to the Kudoh-Kimura Lab for FY2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to create robots that are useful to people, collaborate with people, and entertain people in the real world. Research themes include climbing, stair cleaning, tidying up, cooking, manipulating strings and cloth, locking doors and windows, and air hockey.
*Illustrative imageShape-changing climbing robots
The lab works on expanding the range of movement of climbing robots by making use of shape change. The robots climb fences, walls, and vertically stretched nets, and the lab is also working on opening fence gates.
*Illustrative imageSmall stair-cleaning robot
The lab researches a small robot that cleans the treads, risers, and nosings of stairs.
*Illustrative imageTidying robot with a bag-equipped manipulator
By attaching a bag to a manipulator, the lab aims to make tidying up by mobile robots more efficient.
*Illustrative imageImpact mitigation when humanoids fall
The lab works on reducing the impact when a small humanoid robot falls.
MembersFaculty
The Kudoh-Kimura Lab consists of faculty members, and master's (first-half doctoral program) and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShunsuke Kudoh
- Associate ProfessorKohei Kimura
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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: “Market 19- 19th ESC Launches Army’s First Autonomous Kitchen at Camp Walker (9386882)” U.S. Army 19ESC by Kailil Kendrick / Public domain (cropped)
- Shape-changing climbing robots: “AnymalX-robot-inspection-offshore” Cvoellmy / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Small stair-cleaning robot: “13th floor looking down - staircase modern high rise” Virtual-Pano / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Tidying robot with a bag-equipped manipulator: “ER-FLEX manipulator” Auledas / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Impact mitigation when humanoids fall: “NAO mars 2011 2” Nicolas Richoffer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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