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Intelligent Machine Systems Lab
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A robotics and mechatronics lab centered on the manipulation of objects.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the principles of object manipulation and turning them into machine systems.
The Intelligent Machine Systems Lab (Higashimori Lab) studies robotics and mechatronics, centered on the manipulation of objects by humans and robots.
The lab explores principles inherent to humans and principles unique to robots, and seeks to establish methods for realizing them as “intelligent machine systems.”
It covers the whole process, from developing basic theory and simulation techniques to verification through experiments on real machines.
It also ventures into interdisciplinary fields combining food science with medicine and dentistry, creating new research problems and systems.
Key terms
- Manipulation
- The action of handling an object by grasping or moving it. It is the core of this lab's research.
- Non-prehensile manipulation
- A method of handling objects without grasping them. The lab studies it with the aim of handling amorphous and fragile objects.
- Gripper
- A device that grasps objects and serves as a robot's hand.
NewsLab news
Paper: A paper on manipulation with a belt-equipped hand was published in International Journal of Robotics Research
Paper: A paper on in-hand manipulation with a cloth-equipped hand was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
A paper won the Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology
A presentation at ICRA2026 won the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award
Paper: A paper on tearing manipulation of flexible objects with a dual-arm robot was published in the Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab takes on the challenge of building methods to realize “intelligent machine systems” by exploring principles inherent to humans, robot principles inspired by them, and principles unique to robots. It covers the whole process from developing basic theory and simulation techniques to verification through experiments on real machines, and also works in interdisciplinary fields combining food science with medicine and dentistry.
*Illustrative imageRobot hands and grasping
The lab explores grasping and manipulation with robot hands and grippers from two sides: methods that imitate humans and methods unique to robots. It takes on the challenge of creating original robots.
*Illustrative imageNon-prehensile manipulation
The lab focuses on non-prehensile manipulation, which handles objects without grasping them. Aiming at the handling of amorphous and fragile objects and at robots with fewer actuators, it works on creating novel manipulation principles.
*Illustrative imageEngineering understanding and reproduction of human mastication
The lab regards human mastication as the manipulation and sensing of food by the teeth and tongue. It works on the question of what kind of robot model can understand and reproduce it.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, project researchers, students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorMitsuru Higashimori
- Assistant ProfessorKazuki Higashi
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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: “PR2 robot with advanced grasping hands” Oleg Alexandrov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Robot hands and grasping: “Servo-electric 5-Finger gripping hand - Schunk SVH” NearEMPTiness / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Non-prehensile manipulation: “Robot arm handles an assay plate” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Public domain (cropped)
- Engineering understanding and reproduction of human mastication: “Teeth model front FDI Notation” Partynia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mechanical Dynamics Lab): “Khepera robot” No machine-readable author provided. Stephane.magnenat assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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