Intelligent Machine Lab.  Director: Prof. Shigeki Sugano  The
main research theme of this laboratory is the technology of
Human-Robot Symbiosis. Many areas of research, such as safety
mechanism and control, human-robot tactile communication,
dexterous manipulation, physical and emotional communication
between humans and robots, motion creation based on KANSEI, and
mind (intelligence, emotion, will) mechanism in machine systems
have been studied by developing the human symbiotic humanoid
robot, WENDY and the autonomous robot, WAMOEBA.   Human
Symbiotic Robot: WENDY  WENDY (Waseda ENgineering Designed
sYmbiont) has been developed as a human symbiotic robot that has
the capability of performing cooperative tasks with humans
safely in shared working spaces such as in household, medical,
and welfare facilities. WENDY, which is 150cm in height and
170kg in weight, is designed to carry out physical and emotional
interaction with humans by utilizing the coordination motion of
fifty-two degrees of freedom mechanism an