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Mami Tomura is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on advancing dexterous in-hand manipulation for multifingered robotic hands. Her key research areas include robotic fingertip morphology, posture interpolation control, and the integration of force control with passive flexibility to enhance manipulation stability. Tomura’s major contributions center on developing practical, model-free approaches to enable robotic hands to perform complex, human-like object handling tasks. Her 2016 study on robotic fingertip morphology (11 citations) demonstrates how increasing contact area between fingertips and objects improves grasping and manipulation stability. Her 2015 work on interpolation control posture design (11 citations) offers a simplified method for achieving generic in-hand manipulation, addressing the challenge of analytically modeling complex tasks. In her 2016 paper on position-force combination control (8 citations), Tomura proposes a combined strategy of force control and passive adaptation to handle variously sized and shaped objects without dropping them. These contributions provide foundational techniques for improving the versatility and reliability of robotic hands in practical applications, making her work valuable for researchers in dexterous manipulation and robotic grasping.