Hiroki Mineshita
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About
Hiroki Mineshita is a robotics researcher specializing in humanoid locomotion and dynamic motion control, with a focus on enabling robots to jump, run, and kick with human-like efficiency. His work addresses the challenge of replicating the whole-body coordination seen in human movement, particularly the roles of arm swing and center-of-mass recoil during jumping. In his most cited paper (2020, 9 citations), Mineshita developed a jumping motion generation method that leverages arm swing and foot contact transitions to increase jump height—a critical advance for agile humanoid robots. He also designed a novel robotic ankle mechanism (2019, 6 citations) capable of kicking while jumping and running, and adaptable to changes in speed, drawing inspiration from human energy-saving tendon-muscle dynamics. Additionally, Mineshita contributed to variable stiffness actuation with a trapezoidal leaf spring mechanism (2020, 2 citations), enabling small, lightweight joints that can modulate stiffness for different tasks. His research bridges biomechanics and mechatronics, pushing humanoid robots toward more dynamic, energy-efficient performance in real-world environments.
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