Jin Nakazawa

Keio University, Keio University Shonan Fujisawa

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Jin Nakazawa is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges the gap between unconventional robot morphology and practical, real-world locomotion. His primary research areas include deformable robotics, multi-pedal locomotion, and sensor-actuator network architectures. Nakazawa’s most impactful contribution is the development of continuous shape-changing locomotion for spherical robots, as demonstrated in his 2018 paper (15 citations), which overcame the limitations of discontinuous rolling to enable omni-directional crawling on uncertain terrain. He further advanced this field with a spiny, multi-pedal robot design (2017, 9 citations), introducing a novel telescopic slide actuator with a 250% stroke ratio. Beyond hardware, Nakazawa has made foundational contributions to networked robotic systems, including a sensor-actuator middleware architecture (2009, 4 citations) and an innovative robot control system using dynamic encoded QR codes for video streaming services (2015, 3 citations). His work is notable for its creative fusion of geometric principles with robotic design, offering alternative frameworks to bio-inspired approaches. With a career spanning both mechanical innovation and systems integration, Nakazawa continues to shape the future of adaptive, terrain-agnostic robotic locomotion.