Tetsuya NISHIMOTO
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About
Tetsuya Nishimoto is a leading researcher in the field of human-robot interaction safety, specializing in the biomechanics of soft tissue and skeletal injuries caused by blunt impact and robot contact. His major contributions include identifying critical mechanical parameters—such as peak mean contact pressure and total transferred energy—that govern bruise tolerance, and establishing safety criteria for robot design to prevent harm during human-robot collaboration. Through extensive in vivo impact experiments using anesthetized live pigs and rabbits, Nishimoto has systematically evaluated injury thresholds for soft tissue bruising and fracture, with his most-cited work (2017) accumulating 27 citations. He has also developed advanced finite element models of porcine and human limbs to simulate and predict injury outcomes, notably estimating bruise tolerance thresholds for the human arm. His research spans chest, extremity, and finger skin injuries, and includes static fracture tolerance of the metatarsal when run over by robots. Nishimoto’s work is pivotal for setting evidence-based safety standards in personal care and collaborative robotics, directly informing safer robot design and operational guidelines.
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- 3Static fracture tolerance of human metatarsal in being run over by robot9 citations · 2017
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