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Intelligent Robotics Lab
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A robotics lab that builds intelligent robots that expand human creativity.
AboutAbout the lab
Realizing intelligent robots that expand human creativity
The Intelligent Robotics Lab conducts research and education aimed at developing intelligent robots that bring out people's creativity and potential.
The lab studies robots that gently support human senses and actions in real-life settings such as daily living, welfare, medicine, and creative activities.
By combining mechanical design, intelligent control, AI, human interfaces, and embodiment, the lab aims to build relationships in which robots and people create things together.
The lab regards robots not as replacements for humans but as "partners" that help people act more freely and vividly.
Key terms
- Human interface
- A mechanism for exchanging information and operations between people and machines
- Shared control
- A control method that combines a person's operation with a robot's automatic control so that the two together produce a single movement
- Minimally invasive
- Reducing the area cut during surgery to lessen the burden on the patient's body
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor COLAN received the Poster Presentation Award at the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery
A researcher received the English-Language Journal Award from the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A master's student received the Outstanding Presentation Award for Young Researchers (Fellow Award) from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A student received an Outstanding Presentation Award at SI2025
A researcher received the IEEE RAS Japan Joint Chapter Young Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies robots that support human work and movement, micro- and nano-scale devices that incorporate biological mechanisms, and robots that assist surgery. Through hardware development and making these systems intelligent, it aims to create next-generation daily-living assistance robots and robots for surgery that places less burden on patients.
*Illustrative imageRobots That Support People
The lab studies robots that support work and movement. It works on interfaces that make it easier for people and robots to get along, wearable technologies, motion measurement, and shared control in which a person and a robot operate together, aiming at next-generation daily-living assistance robots.
*Illustrative imageMicro/Nano Devices Inspired by Living Things
The lab aims to create new mechanical systems by imitating or drawing on the small structures and functions of living organisms. It develops technologies such as cyborg technology, bioprinting, and microfluidic chips, and applies them to restoring movement with implantable nerve stimulation devices and to the three-dimensional assembly of cells.
*Illustrative imageSurgical Robots
The lab studies robots for safe, minimally invasive surgery that places less burden on patients. For surgery in which an endoscope and instruments are inserted through the nose, it develops interfaces and robots that let the surgeon intuitively operate forceps with bendable tips in a narrow space.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Intelligent Robotics Lab consist of faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasuhisa Hasegawa
- Associate ProfessorMasaru Takeuchi
- Assistant ProfessorJacinto COLAN
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Pepper the Robot” Softbank Robotics Europe / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Robots That Support People: “Hybrid Assistive Limb” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Micro/Nano Devices Inspired by Living Things: “Micrograph of magnetic microfluidic chip ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Surgical Robots: “New Da Vinci Xi” Alvarogarciamd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cyber Robotics Lab): “Controlling robotic arm ESA15746126” European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
- Related lab (Biocybernetics Lab): “Observing cell lines under microscope in a cell culture lab” Pinky9697 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Fluid System Engineering Lab): “Microfluidic Chip iX-factory” IX-factory STK / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sensing Engineering Lab): “Atomic Force Microscope 01” Gannu03 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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