The Department of Medical and Robotic Engineering Design in the graduate school of advanced engineering newly was established in April 2025, aims to create “Engineering Design for Supporting Human Function” with a new approach that combines design thinking in the three engineering fields of Medical Function Design, Cognitive Function Design and Robotic Function Design. In this department, in addition to the basic science and design as core studies, nanobiology, robotics and various other technologies such as prevention / diagnosis / treatment in medical care, health maintenance, sports and motor function support, etc. will be studied by students as applied engineering in various fields for social implementation of the technologies. The challenge of the Department of Medical and Robotic Engineering Design begins to support QOL (quality of life) and create innovation to realize a sustainable society with the new engineering “Engineering Design for Supporting Human Function” even in a society with a declining population.
List of Research Areas and Faculty Members
| Major | Name | Title | Research Area | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Function Design |
SERA Toshihiro | Professor | Biologistics | ||
| KIKUCHI Akihiko | Professor | Biomaterials | |||
| AKIYAMA Yoshitsugu | Professor | Functional Polymer Engineering | |||
| KAMIMURA Masao | Associate Professor | Mechanobiology | |||
| UMEZAWA Masakazu | Associate Professor | Nanomedicine | |||
| Cognitive Function Design |
MORI Taketoshi | Professor | Health Cognition | ||
| SOGA Kohei | Professor | Photonics | |||
| WATANABE Toshiyuki | Professor | Designology | |||
| Robotic Function Design |
MATSUMOTO Yoshio | Professor | Robotics | ||
| YOSHIDA Eiichi | Professor | Humanoid Motor Function | |||
| HOBARA Hiroaki | Associate Professor | Para-Sports Engineering | |||
| KAI Tatsuya | Associate Professor | Humanoid Control | |||
| (Visiting Faculty Members and Research Fields Based on the Joint Graduate School System) | |||||
| Medical Function Design | EBARA Mitsuhiro | Visiting Professor | Smart Biomaterials |
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| NAKANISHI Jun | Visiting Professor | Bioanalysis Engineering | |||
| YOSHINAKA Kiyoshi | Visiting Professor | Medical Engineering | |||
| YOKOTA Hideo | Visiting Professor | Bioenginnering/ Imaging | |||
| Cognitive Function Design | OSADA Kensuke | Visiting Professor | Theranostics Nanoengineering | ||
| Robotic Function Design | AYUSAWA Ko | Visiting Associate Professor | Robotics / Biomechanics | ||
