Properly depositing diamond-like carbon (DLC) on a polymer material may modify property of the material, bringing in a possibility to enhance its functions. This technique enhances adhesive property of polymer surface and improves barrier property of bulk material against gas and water. These advantages will benefit beverage industry in terms of improving gas impermeability and medical industry in terms of drug release.

We propose a multicolor luminescence material modeled on the firefly bioluminescence. Taking this chemical together with other drugs enables to track in which part of body these drugs pile up. This luminescence material is harmless to human body so that it can be used for finding cancer or a wide range of lesions, and is expected to be applied to achieve more effective therapy.

Through a medi-tech collaboration with the School of Medicine and the Rehabilitation Center, we have carried out a study on how brain moves body. Aiming to provide technological support to the patients with dysmobility and to recover their neuromuscular function, we have been developing "electric instruments that work exactly as a brain thinks."

We will give you a summary of the education and research activities promoted by the Global COE Program, "Center for Education and Research of Symbiotic, Safe and Secure System Design". In this COE program, complex engineering systems involving a wide variety of factors such as environment and safety are designed from both perspectives of elemental technology and system engineering.

Haptic robot hand is a multiple-DOF robot. It has 5 DOF in each master-slave robot and 10 axes in total. This robot hand transmits force sensation to remote places with bilateral control. Moreover this robot has close DOF as human's hand and it could be possible to extract human motion. This robot technology achieve precise remote operations and preserration of craftsman's skill based on force information.

Home furnishings such as chair and mattress make people unconsciously anchor their postures, which as a consequence can be fatigue or comfort. People take certain postures under certain circumstances--What kind of products do they want under such circumstances and why? Our booth will exhibit the systems to sound out real feeling of people and introduce the technologies behind popular products.