Our laboratory has five main projects as follows.

  • Locomotion of legged robots driven by pneumatic actuators
  • Design and control of robot arms driven by antagonistic pneumatic actuators
  • Adaptive manipulation of the Bionic-hand
  • Motor development of musculoskeletal infant robots
  • Creation of Bio-Robot Assembled with Cellular Devices


  •   Legged robots driven by antagonistic pneumatic actors


     Limit cycle walking of a humanoid robot driven by pneumatic artificial muscles

    Walking robot

    Paper


     Consecutive juming of a monopedal robot with musculoskeletal system including bi-articular mucles

    Jumping robot
    Paper


     Dynamic locomotion of biped robot with musculoskeletal system

    Walking and junping robot Pneumat-BR
    Paper


     Motion analysis of a legged robot with biarticular muscles



     Robot arms driven by antagonistic pneumatic actuators


     Dynamic motion generation of robot arm driven by pneumatic actuators

    Humanoid 6DOF arm

    Paper


     Reaching movement of a robot arm with biarticular muscle and reflex



     Development of humanoid hand with flexible skin and its adaptive manipulation


     Bionic-hand with flexible skin that has built-in tactile receptor

    Bionic-hand

    Paper


     Motor development of musculoskeletal infant robots


     under construction

    赤ちゃんロボット1


    赤ちゃんロボット2

    Movie
    Paper


     Creation of Bio-Robot Assembled with Cellular Devices


     Under construction