Specially Appointed Professor Marco Ceccarelli, newly appointed to Tokyo Tech!
With support from the World Research Hub (WRH) Program, Professor Ceccarelli from University of Rome Tor Vergata is collaborating with Professor Yukio Takeda on “Medical Engineering” topics.
Prof. Yukio Takeda(left) & Prof. Marco Ceccarelli (right)
Ryosuke Hakamata won the Jc-IFToMM Young Investigator Found Finalist
Ryosuke Hakamata won the Young Investigator Found Finalist at the 5th Jc-IFToMM international symposium, held in 16 July (Sat) at Katsura campus of Kyoto University.

Spring Graduation Ceremony AY 2021・Four students from our laboratory won Awards
The Graduation Ceremony was held at our university on March 28, 2022, and 5 master’s students and 4 bachelor’s students graduated from our laboratory.

On the same day, four students of our laboratory won the following awards.
・Mr. Nanato ATSUMI (M2) and Mr. Reiji ANDO (M2) received the Best Presentation Award at the Presentation of the Master’s Thesis in the mechanical course.
・Mr. Takamaru SAITO (M1) and Mr. Hoshiaki BABA (M1) received the Best Presentation Award at the Interim Presentation of the Master’s Thesis in the mechanical course.
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Member ’s research introduced in a TV interview
Andrés OSORIO, a PhD student in our laboratory, conducted an interview about his research, a wet-activated scalable SMA linear actuator, that was broadcasted on television in his home country (Mexico, Azteca 7 channel).

Prof. Daisuke Matsuura won the Silver Best Research Paper Award at MEDER2021
Prof. Daisuke Matsuura won the Silver Best Research Paper Award at 5th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER2021), held in Jun. 23-25, 2021, online, for the presentation entitled “An Extendable Continuum Robot Arm to Deal with a Confined Space Having Discontinuous Contact Area”. This work is done with Ryota Shioya, a doctor student in our lab, and Prof. Yukio Takeda.
