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Togo Lab
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The lab explores the intelligence of the body through robots that mimic the human body.
AboutAbout the lab
From human embodied intelligence to robotic mechanism intelligence.
The Togo Lab builds human-mimetic robots that precisely reproduce the structure of the human body, including bones, muscles, and ligaments, in order to study the intelligence that resides in the body.
The lab builds and tests the intelligence produced by the shape of the human body (embodied intelligence), extracts principles that do not depend on form, turns them into simple mechanisms, and implements them in prosthetic hands, robot hands, and more.
Through research spanning diverse fields such as robotics, neuroscience, physiology, measurement engineering, and machine learning, the lab also works to train people who can understand complex bodily systems from multiple perspectives.
Key terms
- Human-mimetic robot
- A robot that precisely reproduces the structure of the human body, including bones, muscles, and ligaments
- Embodied intelligence
- Intelligence that arises from the form unique to the human body
- Myoelectric signal (EMG)
- The electrical signal generated when a muscle moves
- All-axis interference mechanism
- A drive mechanism in which the output of every actuator (power source) affects every joint
NewsLab news
A study on changes in viscoelasticity during landing of a human-mimetic foot was published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
A master's student received an Excellent Presentation Award at SI2025
Information on FY2025 undergraduate thesis lab assignments updated
A study on repetitive control of robot joints with an antagonistic muscle structure was published in IEEE Access
A master's student received the Excellent Research Encouragement Award in the Emerging Research category at the 36th Autonomous Decentralized Systems Symposium
ResearchResearch themes
The Togo Lab aims to establish "Humanize Robotics," a field that uses human-mimetic robots to uncover the intelligence that resides in the human body and apply it to engineering. The lab covers the whole process in a single line of work, from understanding the human body to implementing prosthetic hands, robot hands, and robot arms.
*Illustrative imageHuman-Mimetic Forearm and Hand
The lab builds forearms and hands that mimic the structure of human bones, muscles, and tendons, and studies by building them the mechanisms that give the human hand its dexterity.
*Illustrative imagePowered Shoulder Prosthesis
The lab develops myoelectric shoulder prostheses that restore arm movement for people with shoulder disarticulation. The robot arm, hand, sensor system, and control methods are all part of the research.
*Illustrative imageAll-Axis Wire-Interference Drive Mechanism
The lab develops theory and builds working prototypes of all-axis interference mechanisms, in which the output of every actuator affects every joint.
*Illustrative imageGrasping with Human-Mimetic Fingertips
Using robotic fingers that imitate the shape and softness of human fingertips (nail, finger pad, bone, and subcutaneous tissue), the lab studies the fingertip functions that enable skillful grasping. The lab also applies this work to prosthetic hands.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Togo Lab are faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorShunta Togo
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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: “Robotic Hand at Hannover Messe 2016” NearEMPTiness / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Human-Mimetic Forearm and Hand: “Belgrade hand” Fæ / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Powered Shoulder Prosthesis: “Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm 2” FDA / Public domain (cropped)
- All-Axis Wire-Interference Drive Mechanism: “Elverkets första grävmaskin, driven fr. traktorns kraftuttag, Sundsvall” Ukjend / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Grasping with Human-Mimetic Fingertips: “Three-finger prehensile robot-FRE 2507 CNRS-IMG 5138-white” Rama / CC BY-SA 3.0 fr (cropped)
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