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| Recent News |
| 2011 | ||
| 2011/9/8 | Prof. Hyon received the 2011 RSJ Best Paper Award for his paper "A Passivity-Based Optimal Contact Force Control for Humanoid Robots with Redundant Joints and Multiple Contact Points". | HP |
| 2011/4/1 | Mr. Ho (Hirai Lab.) was selected as a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) of JSPS. | |
| 2010 | ||
| 2010/10/5 | Mr. Ishimaru (M1, Kawamura Lab.) was introduced in RS-Web. | HP |
| 2010/9/21 | Hirai Lab. was introduced in a TV program Love ☆ Lab. (News 610, NHK Kyoto). | HP |
| 2010/8/22 | "Yuuko" won the 2nd prize in Biwako Solar Boat Champingship. | |
| 2010/7/17-9/5 | "Underwater robot COCO", which has been developed by Professor Kawamura and Dr. Shibata, will be introduced in "Exploration in Lake Biwa" held at Lake Biwa Museum. | HP |
| 2010/7/4 | Human-machine Synergy Effector was introduced in a TV program (TV Asahi 18:30-19:00). | HP |
| 2010/6/30 | Underwater robot COCO was introduced in NHK TV program. | |
| 2010/6/12-9/27 | "Micro Medical Robot", which has been developed by Professor Makikawa and Professor Nokata, was introduced in "DORAEMON's Scientific Future" held at National Museum on Emerging Science and Innovation. | HP |
| 2010/6/2 | Mr. Nakamura, Prof. Ozawa, Mr. Goto, Prof. Hatanaka, and Prof. Kawamura won the excellent paper award from Fluid Power Technology Promotion Foundation. | HP |
| 2010/5/6 | Prof. Nokata was nominated to Finalist of Best Automation Paper Award at 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. | |
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| 2010/5/6 | Prof. Hyon was nominated to Finalist of Best Video Award at 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. | |
| 2010/4/1 | Dr. Hyon joined the department. Prof. Isaka and Prof. Sanada moved to School of Sport and Health Science. Dr. Sekimoto moved to Toyama University. |
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| 2010/4/1 | Mr. Saito (M1, Kawamura Lab.) was introduced in RS-Web. | HP |
| 2010/3/29 | Rits-Beihang Research Exchange Joint Program | photos |
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| 2010/3/28 | Underwater robot COCO was introduced in Yomiuri shimbun. | HP |
| 2010/3/24-25 | Professor Ma visited Johns Hopkins University. | |
| 2010/3/23 | Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Advisor, IEEE Fellow) visited the Department of Robotics. | |
| 2010/3/22 | Receiving degrees | |
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| 2010/3/15 | "How to Control Super-robots", edited and written by Dr. Kanaoka, was published from Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun. | HP |
| 2010/3/15-17 | Professor Kawamura visited Nanyang Technical University and Singapore Institute of Technology in Singapore. | |
| 2010/3/8-19 | Prof. Ma, Prof. Hirai, Prof. Shimonomura, and Dr. Ozawa visited universities in China. (Huanzhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan Univ., Tianjin Univ., Hebei Univ. of Tech., Harbin Inst. of Tech., Shenyang Inst. Automation, and Northeastern Univ.) | photos |
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| 2010/2/15 | Underwater robot "Coco" succeeded to observe the bottom of Lake Biwa around Takei island. | HP |
| 2010/2/14 | Underwater robot "Coco" succedded to pick up waterweed around Biwako-Ohashi. | HP |
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| 2010/2/7 | Mr. Ryosuke Nishida, a third-year student, won an Encouragement Award at the 8-th Student Venture Contest of Tokyo Metropolitan Small Business Center. | HP |
| 2010/2/3 | M1 Presentations | photos |
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| 2010/1/24 | Robotic Experiment III was introduced in Yomiuri News. | HP |
| 2010/1/20 | Mr. Ryosuke Nishida and Mr. Tomohisa Kagamihata, third-year students, won two awards at the 11th Campus Venture Grand Prix Osaka. | HP |
| 2009 | ||
| 2009/12/21 | Mr. Yamazaki, Dr. Inoue, and Prof. Hirai was nominated to Finalist of 2009 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics Best Paper in Biomimetics. | |
| 2009/10/30 | Underwater robot (Kawamura Lab.) and Robotic Health Systems (Makikawa Lab.) were introduced at "University Science Festa" (National Museum of Nature and Science) during 2009/10/30 through 11/8. article in Robot Watch photos (1/4) (2/4) (3/4) (4/4) |
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| 2009/8/29 | Mr. Ryosuke Nishida, a third-year student at the Department of Robotics, won the Global Business Leadership Cup held by Kyoto University. | HP |
| 2009/8/20 | Mr. Nakamura, Dr. Ozawa, Mr. Goto, Dr. Hatanaka, and Prof. Kawamura received the 2008 SICE Best Paper Award for their paper "Development of a gait feedback control system for ankle foot orthoses with a pneumatic passive element". | HP |
| 2009/7/1 | Micro in-vivo robots have been introduced in "Highlighting JAPAN", government magazine for public relations. | |
| 2009/6/22 | Lake Biwa Research Group was established by Prof. Imanaka (Life Science) and Prof. Kawamura. | news |
| 2009/5/29 | Dr. Hatanaka (Ph.D at Kawamura Lab.) received Japanese Physical Therapy Association Conference Award for his paper "The influence of lording pattern during resistant training on muscle hypertrophy". | HP |
| 2009/4/9 | Report on Australian Laboratories on Field Robotics Robotics Almost Monthly Seminar Date: 2009/4/9 (Thursday) 12:20 - 13:00 Place: Mechanical System Seminar Room (EastWing 4F) |
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| 2009/4/1 | Dr. Shimonomura, Dr. Okada and Dr. Sanada joined the department. | |
| 2009/3/31 | Mr. Yuusuke Hashimoto and Dr. Nokata received Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery Conference Paper Award for their paper "Development of Micro Catheter Forceps and its Implementation". | HP |
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| 2009/3/23 | Mr. Ryosuke Nishida, a third-year student at the Department of Robotics, received the best business plan award in IT business contest. | HP |
| 2009/3/21-29 | Prof. Kawamura and Prof. Hirai visited CSIRO at Brisbane, Monash University, and The University of Sydney. | |
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| 2009/1/30 | Professor Mayeda had his last lecture on "Robotics of a Control Engineer". | Photos |
| 2009/1/23 | Professor Ishii had his last lecture on "Focus Plus Machine Vision for Desktop Applications". | Photos |
| 2009/1/8 | Robotic Experiment III was introduced in Sankei News. | HP |
| Robotic Experiment III was introduced in Chunichi Shimbun. | HP | |
| 2009/1/7 | Robotic Experiment III was introduced in Kyoto Shimbun. | HP |
| 2008 | ||
| 2008/11/20 | The Department of Robotics was introduced in magazine "Happy Technology". | |
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| 2008/11/27-28 | Prof. Kawamura and Prof. Ma visited Harbin Inst. of Technology and Hebei Univ. of Technology. | PDF photos |
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| 2008/11/10 | Dr. Taniguchi (graduated from Kawamura Lab.) was introduced in RS-Web. | HP |
| 2008/9/10 | Dr. Inoue and Prof. Hirai received the 2008 RSJ Best Paper Award for their paper "Experimental Investigation of Mechanics in Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation". | HP |
| 2008/9/10 | Dr. Okada, Dr. Fujiwara, Dr. Yasuda, Prof. Makikawa, and Prof. Iida received the 2008 JSKE Technical Award. | HP |
| 2008/8/27 | Dr. Nokata finished his one year stay at EPFL, Switzerland. | |
| 2008/8/26 | Dr. Ozawa started his one year stay for research at INRIA, France. | |
| 2008/7/1 | Professor Kawamura was selected as a member of Science Council of Japan. | HP |
| 2008/5/17 | Dr. Sekimoto, Professor Arimoto, Professor Kawamura, and Dr. Bae was nominated to Finalist of 2008 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation Best Manipulation Paper Award. | |
| 2008/4/14 | Announcement of joint research project with Dainippon Screen Co.,Ltd. on underwater robots. | Press |
| 2008/4/14 | Prof. Hirai's proposal "Soft Tissue Mechanics in Human Dexterity via Internal Sensing" was accepted for a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research. | HP |
| 2008/4/1 | Professor Ma, Dr. Uemura, and Dr. Shibata joined the department. | |
| 2008/2/22 | Professor Watanabe had his last lecture on "Futuer Research on Mechatronics and Flexible Automation". | Photos |
| 2008/1/9 | "Robot Experiment III" was introduced in Kyoto Shimbun. | HP |
| 2007 | ||
| 2007/9/28 | Professor Arimoto and Dr. Sekimoto received the RSJ Best Paper Award. | HP |
| 2007/8/22 | Dr. Shibata's proposal "Investigation of Human Dexterity generated by Loose Joints via Soft Elements" was accepted for a Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (start-up). | |
| 2007/7/25 | Prof. Arimoto and Prof. Hirai were introduced in "Messages from Robotics Researchers", a book organized by Robotics Society of Japan. | HP |
| 2007/7/9 | Dr. Shibata and Prof. Hirai's proposal "Expansion and Placement of Fabrics using Visual Sensing" was accepted by Japan Science and Technology Agancy (JST). | |
| 2007/4/12 | Dr. Uemura received the 2007 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award. | HP |
| 2007/4/1 | Dr Shibata joined the department as a research assistant. | |
| 2007/3/15 | Dr. Inoue and Prof. Hirai received the Best Paper Award in the 12th Robotics Symposia for their paper "Dynamics in Object Manipulation by a Pair of Spft Fingertips". | HP |
| 2006 | ||
| 2006/10/21 | Dr. Jeon (Motion Intelligence Lab.) received Young Author Award at SICE-ICASE Int. Joint Conf. 2006 (SICE-ICASE2006). | |
| 2006/7/1 | Professor Hirai started to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics. | HP |
| 2006/5/17 | Professor Arimoto received the IEEE RAS Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award. | HP |
| 2006/5/17 | Professor Hirai and Mr. Shimizu was nominated to Finalist of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation Best Vision Paper Award. | |
| 2006/5/17 | Professor Hirai and Dr. Inoue was nominated to Finalist of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation Best Manipulation Paper Award | |
| 2006/5/17 | Professor Arimoto, Dr. Yoshida, and Dr. Bae was nominated to Finalist of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation Best Manipulation Paper Award | |
| 2005 | ||
| 2005/3/28 | Agreement of research collaboration between Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and Ritsumeikan University. | HP |
| 2005/3/23 | Agreement of research collaboration between Shiga University of Medical Science and Ritsumeikan University. | HP |
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