The conventional robotics require a lot of manpower for construction and maintenance.

On the other hand, living organisms can self-organize and self-replicate themselves.

We are studying self-assembly and self-replicatoin system to overcome the limitation of current manufacturing, and aim to apply our system to robotics and manufacturing.

Mitsuharu Matsumoto Laboratory aims to progress our research such as:

- Passive self-replication in the real world
- Cooking-like manufactring

We would like to understand the difference between life and machinery throughout our research projects and to apply our approach to a new-generation manufacturing and robotics.

A study on passive self-replication

We are studying self-replication system mimicing self-replication of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We aim to develop passive self-replication not by controlling parts themselves but by controlling the environment.

Cooking-like manufacturing

We are studying a new approach labeled cooking-like manufacturing. Cooking-like manufacturing is a method for creating various engineering products by boiling and stirring as is done in cooking.