Hiroaki HASEGAWA
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About
Hiroaki Hasegawa is a robotics researcher whose work centers on advanced sensing technologies for intelligent robotic manipulation, with particular expertise in proximity sensing and dexterous robot hand development. His most influential contributions revolve around integrating proximity, contact, and slip sensing to enable robot hands to perform skillful, human-like grasping tasks — research that has garnered over 80 citations in its most-cited form and nearly 120 citations across related publications. Hasegawa's signature innovation is the Net-Structure Proximity Sensor, a high-speed, free-form sensing system built around an analog computing circuit capable of detecting nearby objects across wide areas with response times as low as one millisecond. This work, cited 58 times, addresses a critical challenge in robotics: safely and rapidly detecting objects before physical contact occurs. He extended this technology to omnidirectional sensing — achieving 360-degree object detection — and applied it directly to robot fingertips, enabling a sophisticated "pre-shaping" behavior that adjusts finger posture and distance before grasping diverse objects. His body of work collectively advances the frontier of tactile and proximity-aware manipulation, offering practical pathways toward robots capable of safe, adaptive interaction in unstructured environments.
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