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…

The Graduation Ceremony was held at our university on March 26, 2021, and 3 PhD students, 10 master’s students, and 6 bachelor’s students graduated from our laboratory. On the same day, three students of our laboratory won the following awards. ・Mr. Nanato ATSUMI (M1) received the Best Presentation Award at the Interim Presentation of the…

Lab official YouTube channel has been started. We will upload videos about our research activities. YouTube channel link is here.

Prof. Yukio Takeda won the Bronze Best Application Paper Award at Third International Conference of IFToMM ITALY (IFIT2020), held in Sep. 9-10, 2020, online, for the presentation entitled “A New Rehabilitation Device for Finger Extension Movement”. This work is done with Andrea who was international student in our lab.

Choi Woohyeok won the Silver Best Student Paper Award at Third International Conference of IFToMM ITALY (IFIT2020), held in Sep. 9-10, 2020, online, for the presentation entitled “Static analysis and actuator selection of(2-RRU)-URR parallel mechanism for thumb rehabilitation”.

Hiroshi Matsuo won IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award(RAS JJC Young Award) at 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2020), held in May 31-Aug.31, 2020, online, for the presentation entitled “Design of a Novel Multiple-DOF Extendable Arm with Rigid Components Inspired by a Deployable Origami Structure”.

Liu YingChi won the young investigator sets, finalist at the 2nd International Symposium of Jc-IFTOMM Symposium, held in Oct. 26 (Sat) at Ikuta campus of Meiji University.