Introduction of the Speaker

Shunta Togo is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, University of Electro-Communications. He has also been joined at Center for Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2) from 2012 to 2014. He was a JSPS research fellow (PD) at Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) from 2014 to 2016. He was an Assistant Professor from 2016 to 2021 at the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications. His current research interests include anthropomimetic robotics, computational neuroscience, and cyborgs.

Title

Regeneration and Replication of the Human Body

Abstract

In recent years, the global race to develop humanoid robots has accelerated, and there is a growing expectation that robots will replace human labor. However, it is still difficult to simulate the complex body structure of humans and reproduce skilled body movements. In this talk, I will give a presentation on human body reproduction and replication related to human augmentation. For human body regeneration, I will present the development of myoelectric prosthetic hands. First, I will introduce a myoelectric forearm prosthetic hand with a learning function, and then a myoelectric shoulder disarticulation prosthetic hand as an extension. For human body replication, I will present our development of an anthropomimetic robot. In particular, I will present specific examples of research in which the body structure of the fingertips enhances precision grasping performance, and introduce the idea that the human body structure itself plays a functional role.