Yoshitaka Matsuda
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About
Yoshitaka Matsuda is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction and teleoperation systems, whose work bridges developmental psychology and advanced robotics. His most influential contribution, the 2012 study “Infants prefer the faces of strangers or mothers to morphed faces: an uncanny valley between social novelty and familiarity” (42 citations), provides groundbreaking experimental evidence of the uncanny valley phenomenon in infants, demonstrating how even preverbal humans exhibit negative responses to near-realistic but imperfect faces—a finding with profound implications for social robotics and human interface design. Matsuda’s primary research areas encompass teleoperation, visual servo control, and biosignal-based interfaces. He has developed innovative hands-free remote operation systems using electrooculogram (EOG) and electromyogram (EMG) signals (2017), enabling paralyzed or mobility-impaired users to control mobile robots through eye and muscle movements. His extensive body of work on teleoperation systems (2010–2021) integrates force-free control, template matching, and automatic visual servo mechanisms to enhance remote manipulation accuracy and user perception. With over 80 total citations across his publications, Matsuda’s research continues to shape the future of assistive robotics and human-robot collaboration, offering practical solutions for remote operation in hazardous environments and healthcare applications.
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