Manabu Kaneko
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Total Citations
86
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About
Manabu Kaneko is a researcher whose work spans two remarkably distinct fields: robotic manipulation of flexible objects and colorectal surgical oncology. In his earlier career, Kaneko made pioneering contributions to service robotics, developing planning strategies for housekeeping robots capable of handling non-solid, deformable objects such as clothing. His foundational 2002 study on laundry-handling robots — which has accumulated 33 citations — addressed the complex challenge of isolating, unfolding, and storing garments, work he extended in subsequent publications exploring task planning for cloth deformation. These contributions helped lay important groundwork for autonomous domestic robotics research. Kaneko's later work shifted decisively toward surgical innovation, particularly in rectal cancer treatment. His 2018 analysis of the learning curve for robotic rectal surgery with lateral lymph node dissection, drawing on cumulative sum and regression methodologies, has earned 29 citations and represents a meaningful contribution to understanding surgeon proficiency in minimally invasive oncological procedures. Additional clinical publications examine surgical site infection prevention across large patient cohorts and rare presentations such as anal canal adenocarcinoma with pagetoid spread. Together, Kaneko's body of work reflects a rare intellectual range, with meaningful impact in both engineering and medicine.
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- 1Planning strategy for putting away laundry-isolating and unfolding task33 citations · 2002
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