Satonori Demura
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3
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21
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About
Satonori Demura is a robotics researcher specializing in robotic manipulation, assistive robotics, and human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on enabling robots to perform complex daily tasks. His major contributions lie in developing novel methods for robots to handle deformable objects and learn tool operations from human demonstrations. In his most cited work, "Picking up One of the Folded and Stacked Towels by a Single Arm Robot" (2018, 16 citations), Demura addresses the challenging problem of manipulating non-rigid materials, ensuring reproducible shape and stable lifting of stacked towels—a task critical for household automation. He further advances robot learning through the "MITATE" technique, inspired by human capacity to communicate tool motions using different environments. His papers "A Trajectory Modification Method for Tool Operation Based on Human Demonstration Using MITATE Technique" (2018, 3 citations) and "Robot learning of tool manipulation based on visual teaching with mitate expression" (2021, 2 citations) propose systems that allow non-expert users to teach robots new tasks intuitively, without technical knowledge. Demura’s work bridges the gap between human demonstration and robotic skill acquisition, making daily assistive robots more accessible and practical for real-world applications.
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- 1Picking up One of the Folded and Stacked Towels by a Single Arm Robot16 citations · 2018
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