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Norihiko Koizumi, Professor
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The Koizumi Lab applies IT such as AI and robotics to medicine, and researches robots for diagnosis and treatment using ultrasound. The lab proceeds with development based on the concept of "medical skill digitization," in which medical skills are organized by function and built into robot mechanisms and programs. The lab is building systems that use high-intensity focused ultrasound to diagnose and treat affected areas without cutting the body. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
Jun Shintake, Associate Professor
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The Shintake Lab researches and develops robots made of soft materials, along with the enabling technologies behind them. The lab is distinctive in covering the whole process: starting from the materials, it fabricates components such as actuators, sensors, and pumps, and then implements them in robots. The lab also focuses on environmentally friendly green robotics based on biodegradable materials and plants, and on edible robotics based on edible materials. Students are divided into groups for soft robotics, bioinspired robotics, biodegradable and edible robotics, and plant robotics, and each pursues its own research themes.
Aikoku Min, Professor
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The Min-Sato Lab researches and develops robots inspired by the structure and motion-control capabilities of living organisms. Its work includes quadruped robots that incorporate animal musculoskeletal systems and underwater robots that move using soft materials. The lab also researches and develops advanced robot and mechatronic systems to meet the needs of society and industry. Students who wish to join the lab are required to visit it beforehand and meet with the faculty members.
Masao Sugi, Associate Professor
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The Sugi Lab conducts research on "human-machine collaborative" manufacturing, in which human workers are at the center and machines support them in what humans are not good at. As product variety grows and product life cycles shorten, "cell production," in which human workers assemble products by hand, is being used in place of automated lines. However, cell production also has problems, such as high costs for training workers and difficulty in quality control. The lab studies new work-support methods, techniques for monitoring workers' states, and techniques for estimating their intentions.
Shunta Togo, Associate Professor
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The Togo Lab builds human-mimetic robots that precisely reproduce the structure of the human body, including bones, muscles, and ligaments, in order to study the intelligence that resides in the body. The lab builds and tests the intelligence produced by the shape of the human body (embodied intelligence), extracts principles that do not depend on form, turns them into simple mechanisms, and implements them in prosthetic hands, robot hands, and more. Through research spanning diverse fields such as robotics, neuroscience, physiology, measurement engineering, and machine learning, the lab also works to train people who can understand complex bodily systems from multiple perspectives.
Hiroshi Yokoi, Professor
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The Yokoi Lab's main research task is to rebuild the theoretical framework of engineering, with humans at its center, together with its surrounding technologies. Starting from studying humans and living organisms themselves from an engineering viewpoint, the lab explores natural interfaces between humans and machines and between society and machines, as well as technologies that integrate them. The research draws on human-machine co-adaptive systems, cognitive science, biosignal processing, robotics, mechatronics, learning theory, evolutionary computation, and embodiment-based machine theory. The lab's website presents it as the joint "Yokoi-Jiang-Togo Lab," together with the labs of Associate Professor Jiang and Associate Professor Togo.
Kazuo Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab studies methods for controlling complex nonlinear systems using mathematics. The lab develops nonlinear control theory based on fuzzy models and tests it by flying unmanned aerial vehicles. Experiments are conducted at Hokkaido Spaceport in Taiki Town, Hokkaido, using flying-wing, powered paraglider-type, and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles. The lab's website is mainly in English, but it states that the lab is not specifically looking for students who are good at English.
Motoyasu Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab studies control methods that make "snake robots," which imitate real snakes, move intelligently. The lab develops almost all of its robot hardware itself, so students get hands-on experience with every part of snake robots, from building them to making them move. Recently, the lab has also been actively working on applications such as rescue, equipment inspection, cleaning, and massage.
Tetsuo Kan, Professor
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Using MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology as its main tool, the Kan Lab studies sensors and devices that are useful for robotics, IoT, medicine, life sciences, and agriculture. It is an experimental lab centered on making things: students fabricate devices themselves in a cleanroom using semiconductor processing techniques. The lab uses optical technologies called metamaterials and plasmonics to study devices such as infrared photodetectors, spectrometers, and chemical sensors.
Chisato Kanamori, Professor
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The Kanamori Lab specializes in researching the development of measurement and control systems and robot systems. The lab started in April 2005 under Prof. Kanamori, who came from a mechatronics lab at the University of Electro-Communications. The lab tackles practical challenges and problem solving, and has taken part in many joint research projects. Its research keywords include high speed (real-time), intelligence, and safety and security.
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