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Takanishi Lab
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A lab that seeks to understand humans by building robots that reproduce them.
AboutAbout the lab
Building humans to understand humans
The Takanishi Lab aims to understand humans by building robots that reproduce them.
Tracing the mechanisms of the human mind and body, the lab conducts research and development on humanoid robots, working toward a society in which humans and robots live together.
The lab works on human motion measurement, walking and running robots, a robot that plays musical instruments, and patient robots for medical training.
Key terms
- Humanoid robot
- A robot built to have a form and movements similar to those of a human
- Motion capture
- Technology that captures human movement with sensors or cameras and records it as numerical data
- Degrees of freedom
- The number of directions in which a machine can move independently; it increases with the number of joints
NewsLab news
Prof. Takanishi received the Okuma Memorial Academic Award Commemorative Prize for fiscal 2025
Together with other universities and companies, the lab developed a method for robot posture control using quantum computers
Prof. Takanishi received a Best Poster Candidate award at the international conference ICPRAM2024
An undergraduate student received the Hatakeyama Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A presentation by Prof. Takanishi and colleagues received the Best Presentation of Session award at the international conference ICCAE 2024
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming to understand humans by building robots that reproduce them, the lab conducts research and development on humanoid robots. Divided into teams, it works on everything from human motion measurement to walking and running robots, instrument-playing robots, and patient robots for medical training.
*Illustrative imageHumanoid Biped Walking Robot
A humanoid robot that can walk with its knees stretched, like a human. It has a waist mechanism based on the finding that the pelvis moves during walking, and the lab proposes its use as a human motion simulator that tests walking assistance devices under development in place of people.
*Illustrative imageHumanoid Biped Running Robot
A robot that achieves dynamic movements such as jumping and running. By imitating arm swing, leg elasticity, pelvic sway, and similar features, the lab aims to elucidate how humans run, apply the findings to sports science, and reproduce pitching motions.
*Illustrative imageHuman Measurement System
Development of a portable measurement system that can objectively measure all of a person's body movements. Motion capture turns movement into numerical data, making it possible to reveal what experts and novices do differently, and how, in areas such as surgical techniques in medicine.
*Illustrative imageHumanoid Saxophone-Playing Robot
A robot that aims to interact with people at the level of sensibility through music. It carries on research built up with the flute-playing robot, such as a mechanism that senses information about co-performers with sensors and changes its performance accordingly.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Takanishi Lab consist of faculty members, researchers, and doctoral students, as well as part-time lecturers, visiting professors, and invited researchers.As of 2023
- ProfessorAtsuo Takanishi
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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: “Atlas frontview 2013” DARPA / Public domain (cropped)
- Humanoid Biped Walking Robot: “Ars Electronica 2008 Kotaro” Manfred Werner - Tsui / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Humanoid Biped Running Robot: “2013 IPC Athletics World Championships - 26072013 - Starting blocks with speaker” Clément Bucco-Lechat / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Human Measurement System: “2010 Motion Capture Suit” Mbrickn / CC0 (cropped)
- Humanoid Saxophone-Playing Robot: “A Saxophone” Sally V / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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