Yasuhiro Kushihashi
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Total Citations
31
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About
Yasuhiro Kushihashi is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans forestry automation, plant biotechnology, and robotics education. His most notable contribution is the development of **Woody-1**, a tree-climbing and pruning robot designed to support forestry work. By equipping the robot with leaf springs on each arm to measure grasping force, Kushihashi simplified control systems, making the robot safer and easier to operate—a key step toward automating dangerous tree-care tasks. This work, alongside his earlier research on a five-legged walking robot with adaptive leg-end trajectory control, demonstrates his focus on creating practical, nature-inspired robotic systems. Kushihashi also made early contributions to agricultural biotechnology with the **Mericlone robot**, an automatic seedling transplantation system driven by shape memory alloys, which automated a critical step in plant tissue culture. More recently, he has advanced robotics education by developing interactive teaching materials that use projection mapping to visualize invisible forces, velocities, and trajectories in robot mechanisms. With over 30 citations across his most-cited papers, Kushihashi’s work reflects a career dedicated to bridging robotics, biology, and education—offering students and researchers a model of how robotic innovation can solve real-world problems in forestry, agriculture, and learning.
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