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88
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About
Rintaro Haraguchi is a leading researcher in industrial robotics, specializing in the automation of assembly tasks involving flexible and deformable objects—a notoriously difficult challenge in manufacturing. His major contributions center on developing robotic systems that can handle cables with connectors and flexible flat cables (FFCs), key components in electronics assembly. Haraguchi pioneered a production robot system using 3D vision sensing and force control to extract and insert cables, achieving 27 citations for this foundational work. He further advanced the field with a multi-modal gripper featuring dexterous tips, active nails, and a reconfigurable suction cup module, enabling precise manipulation of FFCs. His innovative use of kirigami-inspired soft grippers for delicate, contaminated objects has garnered attention, with recent works on sensorized, multi-layer grippers enabling robust grasping and single-grasp object identification. Haraguchi’s bin-picking research, employing a multi-gripper switching strategy based on object sparseness, addresses real-world warehouse automation. With over 80 total citations across his ten most-cited papers, his work bridges the gap between rigid and soft robotics, offering practical solutions for the IoT era and advancing the frontier of autonomous manufacturing.
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- 3A robotic assembly system capable of handling flexible cables with connector11 citations · 2011
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- 10Industrial Robots and Use Cases in the IoT Era2 citations · 2019