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Shintake Lab
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The lab studies soft robotics, building actuators, sensors, and robots from soft materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Building robots from soft materials, starting with their components.
The Shintake Lab researches and develops robots made of soft materials, along with the enabling technologies behind them.
The lab is distinctive in covering the whole process: starting from the materials, it fabricates components such as actuators, sensors, and pumps, and then implements them in robots.
The lab also focuses on environmentally friendly green robotics based on biodegradable materials and plants, and on edible robotics based on edible materials.
Students are divided into groups for soft robotics, bioinspired robotics, biodegradable and edible robotics, and plant robotics, and each pursues its own research themes.
Key terms
- Actuator
- A component that operates in response to electrical or fluid input and produces a robot's movement.
- Biodegradability
- The property of a material being able to break down and return to the soil.
- Dielectric elastomer
- A thin elastomer film. When it is sandwiched between two soft electrodes and a high voltage is applied, it becomes thinner and expands in the in-plane direction.
NewsLab news
Co-authored a review paper on EHD pumps
Paper published on a biohybrid device using Mimosa pudica
Paper published on bonding acrylic adhesives to silicone
Paper published on a dual-channel EHD pump
Tutorial paper on plant robotics published
ResearchResearch themes
The lab researches and develops robots made of soft materials, along with enabling technologies such as actuators, sensors, and pumps. Its distinctive feature is covering the whole process, from materials through component fabrication to implementation in robots.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Shintake Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, visiting researchers, exchange students, and a secretary.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorJun Shintake
- Assistant Professor (Fixed-Term)Yuki Inoue
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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: “Production Pneumatic Actuator with PWM Solenoid Valve” PWMhistorical / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Soft actuators driven by electricity and fluids: “Soft under-actuated fish-like robot” Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kanada Lab): “Tizzy - motorized robotic crawler ( )” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakata Lab): “Gate Valve with Handwheel (L) and with Linear Pneumatic Actuator (R)” Galison / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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