yUYA mORIMOTO rESEARCH gROUP
Morimoto Lab.
School of Fundamental Science and Engineering,
Department of Electronic and Physical Systems,
Waseda University
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2023-07-19 Morimoto had a talk at PRESM2023!
2023-07-12 Morita's muscle-driven tensegrity robot was published in Biofabrication.
2023-06-25 Ogishi's Fast analysis system for membrane protein response was published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
2023-06-19 Inagaki's skin tissue with sensory neurons was published in Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering.
2023-06-05 Morimoto gave a talk at the 3rd Softrobot Workshop!2023-05-14 Morimoto presented at Cheminas47! 4 students (Univ. of Tokyo) won poster awards!
2023-04-01 4 students (B4) were assigned to Morimoto lab!
2023-04-01 Morimoto Moved to Waseda Univ.
2023-03-24 Ren-san (B4) received the Dean of Engineering Award (Excellent Research) and Ogishi-kun (M2) received the Dean of Graduate School Award (Research Achievement)! Congratulations!
2023-1-19 5 students presented at MEMS2023.
2022-11-26 Matsumoto's small intestinal organoid culture device was published in Micromachines.
2022-11-26 Morimoto had a presentation at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry .
2022-11-16 10 students presented at Future Technology from TOKUSHIMA (46th Cheminas, 14th Micronano Mechanical Engineering Symposium); Ren-san (B4) won the Best Presentation Award!
2022-10-24 5 students presented at MicroTAS2022.
2022-06-10 Kawai's robot finger with skin was published in Matter.
2022-05-24 Byeongwook kun's small centrifugal pump was published in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
2022-05-21 Morimoto received Funai Information Technology Award from Funai Foundation for Information Technology.
2022-04-21 Matsushita-kun's paper got the paper award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers。
2022-04-20 Morimoto's review article for biohybrid soft robots was published in JRM
PAST NEWS
2022-03-25 Morita-kun (B4) received Dean of Engineering Award and Hatakeyama Award! Congratulations!
2022-03-24 Morimoto got 2021 Best Teaching Award from Faculty of Engineering, the Univ. Tokyo.
2022-03-17 Morimoto had a presentation at the 21th Congress of the Japanese Society for the Regenerative medicine.
2022-03-16 Morimoto had a presentation at the 27th Robotics Symposia.
2022-03-09 Joint research with Prof. Miura on blood-brain barrier (BBB) devices was published in APL Bioengineering.
2022-02-02 Ogishi-kun's 3D printed device for lipid bilayer recording was published in Lab on a Chip.
2022-01-13 Ogishi-kun(M1) and Sun-san(M1) presented their research at MEMS2022.
2021-11-23 Byeongwook-kun's muscle-adipose co-cultured tissue was published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
2021-11-17 Fukushima-kun's muscle sheet method was published in Micromachines.
2021-11-11 Kinjo-kun(M2) won Best Presentation Award and Visual Movie Award (Most Voted Award) at Cheminas44!
2021-10-13 11 students presented their research in MicroTAS2021.
2021-09-29 Ueno-kun(M1) made a presentation at IROS2021.
2021-09-10 Perfusion culture system of Morimoto was published in Sensors & Actuators -B.
2021-08-31 Morimoto's introduction article was published in "Nextcom" of KDDI R&D Research.
2021-08-05 Morimoto appeared on TV Tokyo "Tankyu no Kaidan".
2021-07-23 Byeongwook-san won Poster Award at MBI 3M satellite meeting in Japan!
2021-07-02 Morimoto was introduced in the "Young Researcher Introduction" on the web of the School of Engineering.
2021-06-11 Cultured steak meat was introduced in Sci-Show.
2021-06-09 Morimoto's review of Biohybrid robot was published in Journal of The Robotics Society of Japan.
2021-04-14 Morimoto won the Young Scientist's Award of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology！
2021-03-19 Ohgishi-kun (B4) received Dean of Engineering Award and Hatakeyama Award, and Kawai-kun (M1) received Miura Award! Congratulations!
2021-03-02 Cultured steak meat of Furuhashi-san (Nissin Foods HD) and Morimoto (*equal contribution) was published in npj Science of Food.
2020-12-31 Cell odor sensor of Oda-san and Kihara-kun (*equal contribution) has been accepted to Cyborg and Bionic Systems.
2020-11-16 [Notice] Online Symposium "Post-Corona and Robotic Society" will be held on Dec. 1!
2020-10-27 Sugawara-kun, Kawai-kun, and Kenta Fukushima-kun presented at FutureTech.
2020-10-27 Morimoto won New Field Development Award of Micro/Nano Engineering Division, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2020-10-09 Byeongwook-kun won Young Researcher Poster Award at MicroTAS2020!
2020-10-09 Morimoto, Sugahara-kun, Byeongwook-kun, Sunagawa-kun, Matsumoto-san, Lee-kun, Inagaki-kun presented at MicroTAS2020.
2020-10-09 Morimoto's paper won 8th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards, Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award.
2020-10-09 Matsushita's muscle-driven swimming robot has been accepted in Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2020-03-05 Morimoto's biohybrid robot powered by skeletal muscle tissue was introduced in the two-hour special of TV-Osaka's "Nidaime Wafu So-Honke" "Never seen before! Tokyo undercover SP".
2020-02-27 Sugawara-kun's centrifugal device has been accepted to S&A-B.
2020-01-23 Oda-san, Nishimura-kun, Ishii-kun, Suzuki-kun, Byeongwook-kun, Kawai-kun, and Yamada(Taku)-kun presented their research in MEMS 2020@Vancouver. Oda-san and Yamada (Tetsu)-kun had oral presentation, and Nishimura-kun won the Art Award (People's Choice Award)!
2019-10-27 Nine of us presented at MicroTAS2019@Basel (Oct. 27-31).
2019-09-17 Shin-kun's centrifugal device has been accepted to S&A-B.
2019-06-14 Nishimura-kun's paper has been accepted to Micromachines.
2019-05-28 Yokomizo-san-kun's adipose fiber has been accepted to Micromachines
2019-05-28 Hirata-kun won Best Presentation Award at Cheminas@Kanazawa!
2019-04-26 Morimoto's Biohybrid robot powered by skeletal muscle tissue was introduced in the University of Tokyo's Collaborative Project for Future Society.
2019-04-17 Biohybrid Robot won the UNESCO Netexplo Award 2019.
2019-04-11 Hirata's odor sensor has been accepted to Lab on a Chip.
2019-04-06 Morimoto won the Incentive Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers!
2019-04-01 Morimoto has been assigned as Associate Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Mechano-Informatics.
Research Topic
Our group aims to be the first in the world to create systems that combine devices and cells by fusing microfabrication and microfluidic device technologies with technologies from other fields such as biotechnology and medicine. In particular, I am interested in establishing a method for constructing tissues by in vitro cell cultivation based on microfabrication technology of biomaterials, and constructing a biohybrid system that can utilize cell functions by integrating cultured tissues and devices.
By clarifying a method for constructing cultured tissues that can be used with any cell and by anyone, and by realizing the industrialization of cultured tissues based on mechanical engineering, we will induce a new breakthrough in society.
Biohybrid robot
By combining the movement mechanisms of living organisms with robot skeletons, we aim to construct biohybrid robots with biological features such as self-repair, proliferation, and movement by chemical energy. It is expected that skeletal muscle tissues made from cells will be used as actuators in robots and other engineering fields.
Cultured tissue / meat
Our goal is to precisely fabricate thick 3D tissues by manipulating and accumulating cells using microfabrication technology. The 3D tissues are expected to be useful for cultured meat produced with environmentally friendly production methods, safe transplantable grafts in regenerative medicine, and drug testing systems that do not rely on animal experiments.
Microfabrication
We aim to develop microfabrication and microfluidic technologies that enable precise manipulation of cells and precise processing of biomaterials. This is the fundamental technology for most of our researches. We are independently conducting research and development of unique microfluidic channels and micromechanisms.
