Robotics appears to be a very lively and fruitful ﬁeld of r e-search in Japan. Some of the research topics cannot befound elsewhere at all, and some are signiﬁcantly ad-vanced. Discussing this impression, a collection of labora-tories is introduced with their most outstanding topics.This report is based on the notes of trips through Japaneselaboratories in February, September 1997, and January1998 as well as on long term research relationships withJapanese institutes.
['Uwe R. Zimmer', 'Thomas Christaller', 'Christfried Webers']
Aspects of Japanese Robotics Research