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NEW MEMBERS HAVE JOINED THE LAB!

9 students have joined the Hirata-Weng-Salazar laboratory as a new member from this April!In addition, Specially Appointed Assistant Prof. Tafrishi Seyed and Academic Fellow Ravankar Ankit started his new position in our lab.Also, as the Academic Fellow, Ms. Seto and as the Assistant Technical Staff, Ms. Sato have joined our lab from January.

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The web site of “Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society,” a R&D Project under Moonshot Goal 3, is now open.

The web site of “Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society,” a R&D Project under Moonshot Goal 3, for which Professor Yasuhisa Hirata of our laboratory is the project manager, is now open. R&D Project “Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society”

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FY 2020 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

The commencement ceremony scheduled for March 25, 2021 (Thu.) has been canceled due to COVID-19. For this reason, we have awarded diplomas to the graduating class in our laboratory. Congratulations on your graduation, and good luck to you!

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SII2021

Doctor 1st year student Dong presented his research at SII2021(Online). The conference was held from 11th to 14th in January 2021. Authors and title of the presentation is:Zonghao Dong, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces and Yasuhisa Hirata, “Development of Walking Assist Robot with Body Weight Support Mechanism”, 2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII), Iwaki, […]

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SI2020

Master 2nd year students Ishida and Yamaguchi presented their researches at SI2020. The conference was held from 16th to 19th in December 2019. Authors and titles of the presentations are: 石田佳奈子、サラザル・ホセ、平田泰久,”団体競技のコーチングを目的としたウェアラブル振動触覚デバイスの制御 -第2報:走行中の人を目的の場所に停止させるための適切な振動タイミングの推定―”,第21回計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会,1D1-06,2020 山口修平、平田泰久,”買い物支援カートの取り付けを考慮した足こぎ車椅子の操舵アシスト制御”,第21回計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会,2D1-11,2020

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Prof. Yasuhisa Hirata has been selected as a project manager of “Moonshot Research and Development Program

Prof. Yasuhisa Hirata has been selected as a project manager of “Moonshot Research and Development Program”.For more information, please see below.  Adoption :The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)Moonshot Goal 3 :Realization of AI robots that autonomously learn, adapt to their environment, evolve in intelligence and act alongside human beings, by 2050.R&D project :A New Lifestyle Alongside […]

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RESEARCH INTRODUCTION VIDEO HAS BEEN RELEASED!

Tohoku University Faculty of Engineering holds “2020 Online オープンキャンパス“(The link is Japanese).For this event, we publish the research introduction video about three themes we are working on.If you are interested in the detail of our research, please watch them(I’m sorry the explanation is only in Japanese). Research introduction : Haptic Leader-follower Wheel chair

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ROBOMECH2020

Prof. Hirata, Assistant Prof. Salazar, Master 2nd year students Dong, Ishida, Kusajima, Hazawa and Yamaguchi, Master 1st year students Takekawa and Yamamoto presented their researches at ROBOMECH2020(Online). The conference was held from 28th to 30th in May 2020. Authors and titles of the presentations are: 平田泰久、塩満崇史,”操舵制御可能なキャスタを有する体重免荷型歩行支援機の運動制御”,日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2020,1P1-E07,2020 サラザル・ホセ、星愛深、平田泰久,”牽引ユニットと非駆動型移動ロボットを用いた広域探査システムの原理検証”,日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2020,1P2-D07,2020 Zonghao Dong, Yasuhisa Hirata,”Control of Body Weight Support […]

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