Papers
14
Total Citations
428
H-Index
8
About
Tomoya Sasaki is a pioneering researcher in human augmentation and wearable robotics, best known for redefining the limits of the human body through robotic limb substitution and body-remapping technologies. His most celebrated works include **MetaLimbs** (145 citations) and **MetaArms** (132 citations), which introduce wearable anthropomorphic robotic arms controlled by the user's legs and feet, effectively expanding the user's natural limb count and capabilities. These systems enable novel interactions where users can perform tasks requiring four arms simultaneously, fundamentally altering the perception of body schema. Sasaki’s **Fusion** system (66 citations) extends this concept to full-body sharing, allowing one person to remotely inhabit another’s body for collaborative skill transfer. His **Co-Limbs** interface (16 citations) addresses the critical challenge of intuitive control for supernumerary limbs using admittance control. More recently, **TOMURA** (7 citations) explores mountable hand-shaped interfaces for versatile interactions, while **TACT** (3 citations) advances humanoid whole-body contact manipulation through deep imitation learning with tactile feedback. With over 400 cumulative citations, Sasaki’s work consistently pushes the boundaries of what bodies can do, blending robotics, haptics, and cognitive science to create transformative human-machine experiences.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1MetaLimbs145 citations · 2017
- 2MetaArms132 citations · 2018
- 3Fusion66 citations · 2018
- 4MetaLimbs19 citations · 2017
- 5Co-Limbs: An Intuitive Collaborative Control for Wearable Robotic Arms16 citations · 2019
- 6Transfantome11 citations · 2019
- 7MetaArms11 citations · 2018
- 8Trial of robot assisted activity using robotic pets in children hospital10 citations · 2004
- 9TOMURA: A Mountable Hand-shaped Interface for Versatile Interactions7 citations · 2023
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