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Kimura Lab
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A lab that researches robots useful in the real world, including robots that change shape to climb.
AboutAbout the lab
Real-world robots that move by changing their shape
The Kimura Lab conducts research together with Professor Shunsuke Kudo as the Kudo-Kimura Lab.
The lab researches robots that are useful to people, collaborate with people, and entertain people in the real world.
Associate Professor Kimura's areas of expertise are intelligent robotics, control, robot software, humanoids, shape-changing robots, and climbing robots.
The lab has robot arms, air hockey robots, small robot construction kits, small humanoid robots, and more.
Key terms
- Climbing robot
- A robot that moves by climbing vertical surfaces such as fences, walls, and nets.
- Shape-changing robot
- A robot that can change into diverse forms, aiming to adapt to a variety of environments.
- Humanoid
- A robot with a human-like body.
- Suction-cup-assisted gripper
- A shape-changing robot end effector that combines grasping of objects with adhesion by suction cups.
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So that robots can adapt to a variety of real-world environments, the lab studies robots that can change into diverse forms and robots that climb fences and walls. It also works on reducing the impact when small humanoid robots fall.
*Illustrative imageRobots that change shape to climb
Using a suction-cup-assisted gripper, which combines grasping by a gripper with adhesion by suction cups, the lab studies how a single robot can climb fences and walls and transition from a horizontal surface to a vertical one. It also works on climbing nets and opening fence gates.
*Illustrative imageHumanoids that soften the impact of falls
The lab works on reducing the impact when a small humanoid robot falls. Topics in the lab's graduation and master's theses include impact mitigation using the opening and closing mechanism of a folding umbrella, and using wheels.
*Illustrative imageRobots that change into diverse forms
So that robots can adapt to a variety of real-world environments, the lab studies robots that can change into diverse forms.
MembersFaculty
The Kudo-Kimura Lab consists of faculty members, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKohei Kimura
- ProfessorShunsuke Kudo
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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: “NAO mars 2011 1” Nicolas Richoffer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Robots that change shape to climb: “Capuchin Free Climbing Robot” Rxzhang12 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Humanoids that soften the impact of falls: “Nao Robot” Martin sjardijn / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Robots that change into diverse forms: “Reconfiguration Robot (rero)” Engtong / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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