ILEA000149221: Japanese professor develops arm robot

Tram-riding delivery robot

Utsunomiya University Professor Koichi Ozaki provides an explanation about a delivery robot carrying lunch boxes at JR Utsunomiya Station in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, during a delivery test using an electric tram system on June 1, 2024.

World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.(Kyodo)

World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

World's 1st edible robot

Photo taken on February 28, 2024, in Chofu, western Tokyo, shows the world's first edible robot developed by Yoshihiro Nakata, associate professor at the University of Electro-Communication, and his research team. Air pressure is used to make the stick-shaped, gelatin-based gummy jiggle on the 3D-printed mug. The robot was developed to study the effects of eating food that looks like it is alive on human psychology.