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Abstract
Unique robotic tools for both minimally invasive surgery of deep organs and nano handling of a living cell have been developed by the author's group. These robots are based on the new principles for actuation, fabrication and control with sensing. "Microfinger" for minimally invasive remote surgery in deep site has a flexible and fine stem with tiny hand. This robot can enter the working channel of the endoscope to conduct micro surgery. Another unique robot named "Nano hand" is fabricated by nano stereolithography originally developed by the author's laboratory. The size of the nano hand is only 12 micron and driven under the optical micro scope by laser trapping technique. The operator can control nano hand with three degrees of freedom via remote controller. This nano robot can handle living cell in the water and real time measurement of reactive force from a cell. Mechanical property of single cell is obtained successfully.
Biography
Professor Koji Ikuta received his first B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, and his second B.S. and M.S. in Biophysical Engineering in 1977, 1979 and 1981 respectively from Osaka University. He received a Ph.D in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. He joined the Center for Robotic Systems in Microelectronics (a NSF sponsored engineering center)at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987, where he was a project leader of the shape memory alloy actuator project for two years.
After returning to Japan in 1989, he was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. In 1990, he became an associate professor at Kyusyu Institute of Technology and moved to Nagoya University in 1994, where he was made a full professor at the newly established department of micro system engineering.
He was awarded 28 academic prizes for his outstanding research results in biomedical micro machines (Bio-MEMS) and medical robotics from government and academic societies such as the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and several foundations. (Outstanding Researcher Prize from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, The Achievement award from American Association on Laboratory Automation and Best paper award from Japan Society of Robots etc.)
He is originally renowned for his pioneer work on Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuator and it's medical applications from the early 80's as the inventor of the world's first "Active Endoscope". A lot of research on SMA micro actuators, including new control/sensing methods and micro fabrication of SMA thin film were done.
He successfully developed the "Micro Stereo Lithography (IH process)" in 1992.This research is well recognized as a trigger work of three dimensional micro/nano fabrication. The resolution of micro/nano stereolithgraphy has already reached to 100 nm in 1999.
He has been proposing the concept and investigating "Biochemical IC chips" which is the micro chemical device including micro pump, reactor, detector and other micro components to construct overall micro chemical analysis and synthesis. This biochemical IC chips contribute the order-made medicine and wearable/ implantable device in near future.
For these several years, he has been establishing new robotics and mechatronics field so called "Optical-driven nano robotics and machatronics" which can work in the liquid under micro scope to handle a cell and micro objects in micro biology. The concept of the optical driven nano mechatronics will contribute to both biomedicine and micro/nano fluidics.
He is very active to develop unique types of medical robotics for minimally invasive surgery and non-invasive inspection ad well as above mentioned micro/nano machine for biomedicine. Recently he has been investigating "micro finger"for remote micro surgery in deep site, "safety active catheter" driven by hydro pressure and "Virtual Endoscope with force sensation" so on..
He was a general co-chair of IEEE MEMS'94 and has been contributing MEMS conferences as a steering committee.
His great effort for "activity enhanced education program" to create "imagineer" (new word to combine imagine and engineer) was introduced as Japanese TV program.
After returning to Japan in 1989, he was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. In 1990, he became an associate professor at Kyusyu Institute of Technology and moved to Nagoya University in 1994, where he was made a full professor at the newly established department of micro system engineering.
He was awarded 28 academic prizes for his outstanding research results in biomedical micro machines (Bio-MEMS) and medical robotics from government and academic societies such as the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and several foundations. (Outstanding Researcher Prize from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, The Achievement award from American Association on Laboratory Automation and Best paper award from Japan Society of Robots etc.)
He is originally renowned for his pioneer work on Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuator and it's medical applications from the early 80's as the inventor of the world's first "Active Endoscope". A lot of research on SMA micro actuators, including new control/sensing methods and micro fabrication of SMA thin film were done.
He successfully developed the "Micro Stereo Lithography (IH process)" in 1992.This research is well recognized as a trigger work of three dimensional micro/nano fabrication. The resolution of micro/nano stereolithgraphy has already reached to 100 nm in 1999.
He has been proposing the concept and investigating "Biochemical IC chips" which is the micro chemical device including micro pump, reactor, detector and other micro components to construct overall micro chemical analysis and synthesis. This biochemical IC chips contribute the order-made medicine and wearable/ implantable device in near future.
For these several years, he has been establishing new robotics and mechatronics field so called "Optical-driven nano robotics and machatronics" which can work in the liquid under micro scope to handle a cell and micro objects in micro biology. The concept of the optical driven nano mechatronics will contribute to both biomedicine and micro/nano fluidics.
He is very active to develop unique types of medical robotics for minimally invasive surgery and non-invasive inspection ad well as above mentioned micro/nano machine for biomedicine. Recently he has been investigating "micro finger"for remote micro surgery in deep site, "safety active catheter" driven by hydro pressure and "Virtual Endoscope with force sensation" so on..
He was a general co-chair of IEEE MEMS'94 and has been contributing MEMS conferences as a steering committee.
His great effort for "activity enhanced education program" to create "imagineer" (new word to combine imagine and engineer) was introduced as Japanese TV program.