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Matsumaru Lab
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A robotics lab that builds better relationships between people and machines.
AboutAbout the lab
Building machines that are approachable for people.
The Matsumaru Lab aims to build better relationships between people and machines, and takes up the various phenomena that occur between the two.
Its goal is to make systems that people have built friendlier and easier for people to use.
The lab always keeps in mind the link between its research topics and real everyday life, and designs robots and mechatronic systems that are actually useful.
It combines existing technologies to achieve the required functions, and also develops on its own the elemental technologies that do not yet exist.
Key terms
- Mechatronics
- A field of technology that combines machinery, electronic circuits, and information processing to create mechanisms that move
- Human-Robot Interaction
- A research field dealing with how people and robots communicate and engage with each other
- Self-Organizing Map
- A learning method that automatically arranges data on a plane so that similar data are placed close together
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Outstanding Student Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Prof. Matsumaru received the Division Contribution Award from the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A doctoral student received the Student Research Encouragement Award from the IEEE Fukuoka Section
ResearchResearch themes
The Matsumaru Lab studies what happens between people and robot and mechatronic systems. From human-robot interaction to the measurement and analysis of human motion, it designs mechanisms that are useful in real daily life.
*Illustrative imageRecognizing Human Motion and Posture
This research distinguishes human activities, movements, and postures. The lab uses both probability-based methods, such as probabilistic neural networks and the k-nearest neighbor method, and classification and clustering with self-organizing maps.
*Illustrative imageRobotizing Manual Work
This research aims to hand tasks traditionally done by human hands over to robots. The lab works on methods for handling flat objects and soft objects while deforming them, and on random bin picking, in which items are taken out one by one from a pile.
*Illustrative imageSystems That Support Learning
The lab builds technology-based systems that support learning, handling everything from design to implementation. It has developed a device that projects images onto a desk so users can practice writing characters, and a support system for learning how to use a brush.
*Illustrative imageMid-Air 3D Images
The lab builds devices that project three-dimensional images in mid-air that users can touch and manipulate by hand. Applications are expanding to operating remote robot arms and to experiencing pottery making on a potter's wheel.
MembersFaculty
The Matsumaru Lab's members include faculty, doctoral and master's students, visiting researchers, interns, and trainees.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakafumi Matsumaru
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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: “Robonaut 2 on Centaur 2” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Recognizing Human Motion and Posture: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Robotizing Manual Work: “Robotic Hand at Hannover Messe 2016” NearEMPTiness / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Systems That Support Learning: “Calligraphy word” Contemporary museum of calligraphy / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mid-Air 3D Images: “Acoustophoretic Volumetric Display” Tatsuki Fushimi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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