Research labs
JSK Laboratory (Jouhou System Kougaku)
Japan
One of Japan's oldest robotics labs, founded around 1978 by Hirochika Inoue, with a lineage of emblematic humanoids including Kotaro, Kenshiro, Kengoro and Musashi.
AffiliationUniversity of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
CountryJP
TypeAcademic
Research areasmusculoskeletal humanoids, tendon-driven robots, motor learning, biomimetics
Flagship contributionBuilt Musashi, a musculoskeletal humanoid with 74 artificial muscles and 39 joints, which drove a Toyota COMS electric car autonomously on real campus roads, braking for pedestrians and reacting to horns and traffic lights.
Key peopleMasayuki Inaba (Professeur, directeur du JSK Lab), Kei Okada (Professeur, Département Mechano-Informatics), Kento Kawaharazuka (Lecturer, JSK Lab et UTokyo AI Center)
Open outputsPublications en accès libre sur arXiv (nombreux articles 2024-2026 sur Musashi et le contrôle appris) ; pas de release logicielle majeure confirmée au-delà de ces publications.
CityTokyo
Sources : New Atlas (2024-06-13)arXiv (2024-06)Kento Kawaharazuka (page personnelle) (2026-07)
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