Yoshihiro Sato

Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan), Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Tokyo City University

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Yoshihiro Sato is a robotics researcher whose work spans industrial automation, agricultural robotics, and intelligent manipulation. His early contributions include pioneering research on multi-arm robots for automobile assembly (2002, 24 citations), addressing the complex, labor-intensive processes in chassis and drive train assembly by enhancing efficiency and reducing reliance on human dexterity. More recently, Sato has advanced field robotics with a quadruped robot platform for selective pesticide spraying (2023), demonstrating a novel approach to precision agriculture in broccoli fields. His work in perception and control includes CAPT (2024), a transformer-based architecture for category-level articulation estimation from single point clouds, enabling robots to understand joint parameters of articulated objects. Sato has also developed direct-visual-operation support systems for unmanned construction (2020) to improve worker safety, and proposed a reward-consistent demonstration method for learning 6DoF grasping (2021), combining imitation and reinforcement learning to simplify complex motion planning. His research consistently bridges theoretical innovation with practical deployment in challenging real-world environments, from factories to farms and construction sites.