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Ishii Lab
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The lab builds robots that coexist with animals, people, and nature.
AboutAbout the lab
Coexistence of nature, animals, and people through robotics.
The Ishii Lab develops robots and mechanical systems that coexist with a variety of living things, including humans, animals, and plants.
It treats the interaction between living things and robots as a single closed loop and actively makes use of the adaptation that living things possess.
In doing so, the lab aims to create new kinds of symbiotic relationships between living things and robots.
Aiming at creative, hands-on making of things, the lab values thinking together with the people who will use the robots in the field, rather than keeping the work within the lab.
Key terms
- Robotics
- The field of engineering that deals with a robot's mechanisms, sensors, and control together to build things that actually move
- Animal-shaped robot
- A robot built to imitate the form and movement of an animal and made to interact with real animals
- Environmental monitoring
- Continuously measuring the condition of the natural environment and watching for changes
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Best Industrial Paper Award at ICPRAM2026
Prof. Ishii was selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICMA2024
Prof. Ishii received the Best Paper Award at ICPRAM2024
An undergraduate student received the 5th Outstanding Student Award from the Robotics Society of Japan
An undergraduate student received the SICE Outstanding Student Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
ResearchResearch themes
Through research and development of developmental support robots, animal-shaped robots, and environmental monitoring robots, the Ishii Lab works toward the coexistence of nature, animals, and people. Beyond research, it also actively works to put its results to practical use by starting companies.
*Illustrative imageRobots for Understanding Animal Behavior
The lab develops robots that imitate animals at various levels, such as form and function. By repeating experiments in which these robots interact with animals, it works to uncover the workings of the animal mind.
*Illustrative imageRobots That Draw Out Human Abilities
Human behavior is shaped through interaction with the environment. Using robots and systems that influence people in both explicit and implicit ways, the lab is developing methodologies to bring out each individual's abilities to the fullest.
*Illustrative imageMechanical Systems That Coexist with Nature
To build sustainable symbiotic relationships between humans and nature, the lab develops technologies for understanding nature more deeply and for promoting nature's own capacity for regeneration. Its work includes autonomous mobile environmental monitoring robots.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorHiroyuki Ishii
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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: “MARMOT Acquatic Robot at Fellaria proglacial Lake” Baronruju / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Robots for Understanding Animal Behavior: “Wistar rat” Janet Stephens (photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
- Robots That Draw Out Human Abilities: “Old hand-cranked water pump in Govik” W.carter / CC0 (cropped)
- Mechanical Systems That Coexist with Nature: “Camera Trap” Flappy Pigeon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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