Keisuke Ohta

The University of Tokyo

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Keisuke Ohta is pioneering the emerging field of biohybrid robotics, where living biological tissues are integrated with synthetic mechanical systems. His most notable contribution addresses a fundamental challenge in this domain: keeping living skin tissue alive on robotic platforms. In his landmark 2025 study, Ohta developed a skin-covered biohybrid robotic finger featuring a bilayered permeable subcutaneous support structure that supplies internal hydration, preventing the rapid desiccation that typically plagues such systems. This innovation represents a critical step toward creating robots with living, self-healing, and sensory-capable outer layers. By solving the hydration problem, Ohta’s work opens new possibilities for more lifelike prosthetics, human-interactive robots, and advanced tissue engineering applications. Though his most-cited paper currently holds 1 citation, the novelty and foundational nature of this research—bridging tissue engineering and robotics—positions Ohta as a rising innovator in biohybrid systems. His work exemplifies the interdisciplinary thinking needed to merge biology with machine, offering a glimpse into a future where robots are not just mechanical, but truly alive.

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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Skin‐Covered Biohybrid Robotic Finger with Bilayered Permeable Subcutaneous Support for Internal Hydration Supplement
1 citations · 2025
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2025 (1 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 3
🏛 Institutions: The University of Tokyo

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