- "Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (JRM), Vol.25, No.4, Aug, 2013" is making call for papers on "Bio Assembler"-special number.
- Asterisk Robot was addressed in Doraemon Fushigi-no Science of Vol 5.
- "Mitsuhiro Horade" Specially Appointed Assistant Professor arrived at Arai laboratory on Novenber 1, 2012.
- Award for Best Student Paper Award 2011 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2011) to
Chayooth Theeravithayangkura, Tomohito Takubo, Kenichi Ohara, Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai: "Dynamic Rotational Walking Motion on Inclined-plane with Posture Optimization by Genetic Algorithms", 2011 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, held in Beijing, China, Aug 7-10, 2011.
- Award for Best Paper Award First IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science(Asian-MMS 2010) to
Chayooth Theeravithayangkura, Tomohito Takubo, Kenichi Ohara, Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai:"NEW TURNING MOTIONS FOR ASTERISK'S DYNAMIC ROTATIONAL WALKING MOTION", First IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science, held in Howard Interational House, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 21-25,2010.
- Award for Best Conference Paper Award 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2009) to
Akiyuki Hasegawa, Huseyin Uvet, Kenichi Ohara, Tomohito Takubo, Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai: "Automatic Single Cell Transfer Module", The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp.147-152, Guilin, China, Dec. 19-23, 2009.