Fumihiro Sassa
Papers
9
Total Citations
99
H-Index
6
About
Fumihiro Sassa is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, chemical sensing, and kinetic electronics. His work focuses on developing high-speed gas sensor modules and monolithic soft microrobots for spatial odor detection and environmental monitoring. Sassa’s major contributions include creating a robot equipped with a high-speed LSPR (Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance) gas sensor module, enabling the collection of spatial odor information from invisible, on-ground sources—a breakthrough that overcomes the traditional limitation of slow sensor response times. His most cited paper (47 citations) demonstrates this innovation, while his development of a layered flexible robotic actuator film for monolithic soft microrobot fabrication (14 citations) advances low-invasive body–machine interfaces. Sassa also introduced a robotic electrochemical biosensor based on kinetic electronics (6 citations) and an active optical sensor microrobot with a multi-DoF gripper arm (6 citations), showcasing his ability to integrate sensing and actuation in compact, film-based systems. His work on molecularly imprinted filtering adsorbents for odor sensing (6 citations) further highlights his versatility. With a total of over 90 citations across his top papers, Sassa’s research is driving the next generation of agile, sensor-rich soft robots for real-world applications in environmental monitoring, healthcare, and robotics.
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- 3Flexible Thermal Actuator Film for Monolithic Soft Micro Robot Process9 citations · 2018
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- 5Molecularly Imprinted Filtering Adsorbents for Odor Sensing6 citations · 2016
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