Yukiko Iwasaki
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About
Yukiko Iwasaki is a robotics and human-computer interaction researcher whose work bridges the gap between physical manipulation and virtual presence. Her primary research areas include soft robotics, haptic interfaces, and multi-presence systems—technologies that allow a single user to operate multiple remote bodies simultaneously. Iwasaki’s most notable contribution is the development of a three-fingered jamming gripper (2019, 7 citations), a low-degree-of-freedom end effector that uses granular jamming to adaptively grasp objects of varying shapes and positions, simplifying robotic control for versatile industrial applications. She also pioneered the EASY-LAB system (2022, 3 citations), a dual-presence experiment platform designed to support remote scientific collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic by overlaying augmented body cues onto video conferencing. Most recently, her work on multi-presence systems (2024, 1 citation) explores how working memory capacity influences the effectiveness of multitasking across multiple virtual bodies—a foundational study for future teleoperation and metaverse applications. Iwasaki’s research uniquely combines mechanical ingenuity with cognitive science, advancing both the hardware and human factors needed for next-generation remote interaction systems.
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