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Total Citations
124
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About
Tamotsu Machino is a researcher specializing in networked robotics, remote collaboration systems, and human-robot interaction. His work has centered on developing innovative frameworks that enable robots to serve as active intermediaries in distributed teamwork and everyday support scenarios. Machino's most influential contribution is the SCOPE (Sight Collaboration by Projection Effect) system, a mobile robot equipped with a camera and projector that allows remote experts to guide on-site workers through complex maintenance tasks — a concept that garnered 37 citations and helped define the field of robot-augmented collaboration. Building on this, his Robot-Augmented Communication (RAC) and Robot-Supported Cooperative Work (RSCW) frameworks further refined how humans and robots can share a field of view across physical distances. On the infrastructure side, Machino contributed foundational work on network robot platforms — open architectures enabling multiple robots to collaborate and deliver daily-life services via communication networks, accumulating over 40 additional citations across two key papers. His earlier research introduced MotionMedia and Audio-MotionMedia, pioneering approaches to encoding robot motion data within audio streams and XML-based description languages for richer networked communication. With a consistent research vision spanning from 2002 through 2010, Machino's body of work has meaningfully advanced how robots can enhance human collaboration across distance.
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- 1Remote-collaboration system using mobile robot with camera and projector37 citations · 2006
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- 9Remote-Collaboration System Using Mobile Robot with Camera and Projector4 citations · 2010
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