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Hashimoto Lab
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A mobile robotics lab aiming to build robots that surpass the abilities of humans and animals.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward robots that surpass humans and animals
The Hashimoto Lab aims to build robots that surpass the abilities of humans and animals, targeting land, sea, and air, and in the future space environments as well.
It works on mobile robots, including legged robots such as humanoids, wheeled and flying robots, and hybrid robots that combine them.
Beyond hardware development, the lab also tackles software challenges such as recognizing the surrounding environment, trajectory planning, and whole-body motion generation.
Working with developers of component technologies and infrastructure, robot businesses, and others, the lab aims to create a society in which people and robots can be active together easily.
Key terms
- Humanoid
- A robot shaped like a human. Many walk on two legs
- Trajectory planning
- Deciding what path a robot takes and how it moves its body to reach its destination
- Physical AI
- Technology that combines AI-based perception and decision-making with robots that operate in the real world
NewsLab news
Prof. Hashimoto and colleagues received the Gold Best Research Paper Award at IFToMM MEDER 2026
A master's student received the Young Author Award at the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
Doctoral students and others were named Best Cyborg Award Finalists at IEEE CBS 2025
Paper accepted to Biomimetics
Doctoral students and others received the Best Paper Award at AANN 2025
ResearchResearch themes
The Hashimoto Lab researches and develops robot systems that can operate flexibly in the real world. In addition to hardware development, it focuses on physical AI technologies that support autonomy and intelligence in the real world, including recognition of the surroundings based on sensor information, trajectory planning, and behavior generation using reinforcement learning and foundation models.
*Illustrative imageBipedal robots
The lab studies bipedal walking robots from two sides: the motion control that generates walking, and the hardware of the robot itself.
*Illustrative imageJumping legged robot
With the long-term goal of realizing legged robots capable of dynamic motions such as jumping and running, the lab is developing a single-leg robot with one degree of freedom each at the hip and knee joints.
Four-legged wheeled robot
The lab is developing a four-legged wheeled robot that combines the strengths of legged robots, which are highly capable on rough terrain, and wheeled robots, which are highly capable on flat ground.
MembersFaculty
The Hashimoto Lab's members are faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenji Hashimoto
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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: “Legged Squad Support System robot prototype” Tactical Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense / Public domain (cropped)
- Bipedal robots: “Passive dynamic walker” Stpedraz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Jumping legged robot: “Sparrow probe NASA” NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (cropped)
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