Shinichi Kinoshita
Papers
7
Total Citations
100
H-Index
5
About
Shinichi Kinoshita is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics and animal behavior, whose work has opened new frontiers in bio-inspired robotics and psychiatric research. His primary research areas include biomimetic robotics, animal-robot interaction, and the application of robotic systems to behavioral neuroscience. Kinoshita's most significant contribution is the development of the WR series of rat-like robots (WR-4 and WR-5), which can mimic realistic rat behaviors such as rearing and rotating to interact with live rodents. His landmark 2013 study, "Modulation of rat behaviour by using a rat-like robot" (40 citations), demonstrated that these robots could induce stress, friendly, or neutral responses in rats, effectively replacing live conspecifics in controlled experiments. This breakthrough has profound implications for animal model research, particularly in developing depression models (13 citations) and automating behavioral analysis. Kinoshita also advanced the field by creating automated video processing systems for robot-rat interaction (13 citations), replacing traditional manual annotation. His work has been cited over 100 times, establishing him as a key figure in animatronics and behavioral robotics, with applications ranging from environmental monitoring to psychotropic drug screening.
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Top Papers
- 1Modulation of rat behaviour by using a rat-like robot40 citations · 2013
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- 3Image processing and behavior planning for robot-rat interaction13 citations · 2012
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- 5A rat-like robot for interacting with real rats11 citations · 2013
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- 7A rat-like robot WR-5 for animal behavior research3 citations · 2012