Tamaki Nishino

The University of Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan), Tokyo University of Information Sciences

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Total Citations

219

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Tamaki Nishino is a pioneering researcher in the field of musculoskeletal humanoids, dedicated to creating robots that physically mimic the human body’s flexibility and redundancy. Their major contributions center on the design and control of biologically inspired robots, most notably through the development of the advanced humanoid “Kojiro” (2007, 163 citations), which established foundational concepts for human-symbiotic machines. Nishino also led the creation of the “Human Support Robot (HSR)” (2018, 37 citations), a mobile manipulator designed to improve quality of life in aging societies by performing physical tasks in living spaces. Earlier work includes the realization of stable standing in the musculoskeletal humanoid “Kotaro” (2006, 10 citations) by reinforcing artificial muscles, and the innovative design of a shoulder structure with a wide range of motion using bladebone-collarbone mechanisms (2007, 9 citations). These achievements demonstrate Nishino’s impact in advancing humanoid robotics toward safe, adaptive, and practical human-robot interaction.