Dr Shuhei Miyashita
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Robotics
shuhei.miyashita@sheffield.ac.uk
Amy Johnson Building
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Dr Shuhei Miyashita
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Shuhei Miyashita received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, and Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA, from 2011 to 2015, and a Lecturer at the University of York, UK from 2016 to 2018.
- Research interests
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- Micro and milli robotics
- Self-assembling machine
- Metamaterial
- 4D printing
- Self-reconfigurable systems
- Biomedical robots
- Origin of life
- Publications
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Journal articles
- A remotely foldable and actuatable kinematic origami gripper. Smart Materials and Structures, 34(7). View this article in WRRO
- A chemical reaction driven untethered volume changing robotic capsule for tissue dilation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 6(4), 1300-1308. View this article in WRRO
- Remotely actuated programmable self-folding origami strings using magnetic induction heating. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- A Magnetically Actuated Crank-Slider Mechanism Embedded in a Swallowable Capsule, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 42-49). Springer Nature Switzerland
- Transforming Origami Sculpture for Exhibition at Art Festival, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 293-303). Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference proceedings
- Ensemble Control of a 2-DOF Parallel Link Arm in a Capsule Robot Using Oscillating External Magnetic Fields. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 9081-9087), 19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025.
- Wirelessly Actuated Rotation-free Magnetic Motor. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 2387-2393), 14 October 2024 - 18 October 2024.
- Environment-Modulated Self-Assembly by Changes in Modules’ Buoyancy. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 11706-11712), 13 May 2024 - 17 May 2024.
- Roblets: Robotic Tablets That Self-Assemble and Self-Fold into a Robot. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 1 October 2023 - 5 October 2023.
- Development of an Untethered Inflatable Capsule Robot for Stricture Dilation - a Preliminary Study. Proceedings of The 15th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2023 (pp 105-106)
- A remotely foldable and actuatable kinematic origami gripper. Smart Materials and Structures, 34(7). View this article in WRRO
- Teaching activities
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- Mechatronics (ACS231)
- Mechatronics for Robotics (ACS6502)