Jellyfish Grasping and Manipulation Heads: Zhongkui Wang Contact: Issei Nate Date: 2021 - Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) "An intelligent knowledge processing infrastructure, integrating physical and virtual domains" 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 Associated lab/group: Furukawa Lab. (Yamagata Univ.)

Project Description

We aim at grasping and manipulating of jellyfish, which contain much water and slippery surfaces.

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
2023/5/31	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)

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Issei Nate	Graduated	Master of Eng.

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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