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Y. Kuroda’s research spans self-organizing robotic swarms, planetary exploration rovers, and advanced myoelectric prosthetic hands, demonstrating a remarkable breadth from macro-scale autonomous systems to human-centered assistive devices. Kuroda’s most influential work, “Self-organizing collective robots with morphogenesis in a vertical plane” (108 citations), introduced groundbreaking mechanisms for swarm robots to physically reconfigure against gravity, laying the foundation for autonomous mobile robot morphogenesis. In planetary robotics, Kuroda contributed the Micro 5 rover (26 citations), a compact, low-power design for lunar and Martian surface exploration. More recently, Kuroda has pioneered intuitive control for multi-degree-of-freedom prosthetic hands, using coevolutionary tactile interaction (2022, 21 citations) and conditional generative adversarial networks (2023) to estimate finger positions from myoelectric signals—addressing a critical challenge in prosthetic usability. Kuroda also developed a lightweight robotic hand for infants with congenital limb defects (2022). Early work on hybrid real/virtual environments for underwater mechatronic systems (2002, 28 citations) and edge-node map localization (2018) further showcases Kuroda’s versatility in creating synthetic worlds for robot testing and robust navigation without external sensors. With over 200 total citations, Kuroda’s career reflects a sustained commitment to pushing the boundaries of robotics—from collective morphogenesis to restoring human dexterity.