Shogo Makino
Papers
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Total Citations
172
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About
Shogo Makino is a pioneering roboticist whose research centers on the development and control of tendon-driven musculoskeletal humanoids—robots that closely mimic the complex muscle and bone structures of the human body. His major contributions lie in solving the fundamental challenge of controlling these highly compliant, underactuated systems, where traditional model-based approaches fail due to the difficulty of geometrically modeling intricate tendon routes and soft tissue. Makino has pioneered a suite of online learning methods for self-body image acquisition, enabling these robots to autonomously discover the nonlinear relationship between muscle activations and joint movements through vision and sensor feedback. His work on antagonist inhibition control, inspired by human reciprocal innervation, has been critical for achieving wide-range limb motion. With over 170 citations across his top papers, Makino’s impact is evident in his development of high-power, flexible robotic hands capable of supporting the robot’s own weight, and in the creation of the TWIMP platform—a two-wheeled inverted pendulum that serves as a real-world testbed for learning control through physical contact. His achievements include the design of a deformable joint capsule for open-ball shoulder joints and a binocular eye-camera unit for active vision, pushing the boundaries of human mimetic robotics toward truly lifelike, adaptive machines.
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