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Shin‐ichi Ito is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous space robotics, multi-fingered robot manipulation, and computer vision-based grasping systems. His most significant contributions lie in the development and experimental validation of autonomous space robots capable of performing complex structural assembly tasks in simulated microgravity environments. Through a series of influential hardware experiments conducted in the early 2000s, Ito demonstrated that free-flying space robots could autonomously assemble truss structures using frictionless table systems and vision sensors — foundational work that has accumulated over 25 citations and helped establish practical benchmarks for space robotics research. Alongside his space systems work, Ito made meaningful contributions to human-robot interaction by developing a virtual teaching framework for multi-fingered robots, leveraging virtual reality environments and human-hand modeling to streamline automatic programming — earning 16 citations for its innovative approach to motion-intention analysis. More recently, his research has extended into industrial automation, proposing an efficient template matching and differential evolution method for detecting grasping positions of bulk-stacked bolts, offering a practical alternative to computationally demanding deep learning approaches. Across two decades, Ito's research consistently bridges theoretical robotics and real-world experimental application.