Living Organism Manipulation

Description

In this research, we explore the principle in manipulation of living organisms with spontaneous motion to perform their grasping and manipulation by robotic hands.

silkworm grasping and manipulation	jellyfish grasping and manipulation

2023/9/23	Demonstrating Jellyfish Catcher at E-Kagen Robots at Fukuoka City Science Museum
2023/9/13	Nate, Wang, and Hirai received RSJ 4th Excellent Research and Technology Award.
by Mr. Maeda by Prof. Endo by Nate by Mr. Maeda
2023/6/2	Presenting "Soft Hands Grasping and Manipulating Living Organisms" at ICRA23 workshop on robot assisted safe manipulation of hazardous materials
2023/5/31	Nate received IEEE RAS Japan Joint Chapter Young Award (ICRA2023).
2022/12/4	Demonstrating Jellyfish Catching Robot at E-kagen Robot Exhibition
2022/3/14-3/15	Science of Soft Robot Meeting at Tsuruoka (Kamo Aquarium & Suiden Terrasse)

Budget

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovation Areas (Science of Soft Robots) JP21H00333
  Mechanics of Wet Contact with Applications to Sticky/Slippery Object Manipulation

Publications

• Issei Nate, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, Passive Robotic Gripper Using a Contact-Based Locking Mechanism, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160922, ExCeL London, London, UK, May 29 - June 2, 2023
• Issei Nate, Wang Zhongkui, Yosuke Watanabe, Md Nahin Islam Shiblee, Masaru Kawakami, Hidemitsu Furukawa, and Shinichi Hirai, Jellyfish Grasping and Transportation with a Wire-Driven Gripper and Deep Learning Based Recognition, 2022 IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2022), 10.1109/AIM52237.2022.9863266, Royton Sapporo, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 11-15, 2022

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