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Fumihito Arai

Fumihito Arai

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Engineering and Technology
Japan
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
65
Citations
16990
World Ranking
1510
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Fumihito Arai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their primary fields of study are Engineering and Medicine, with a particular focus on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Ophthalmology.

Their research covers several main topics including:

  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Retinal and Macular Surgery
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Arai has published extensively in multiple prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) with 48 publications
  • Micromachines with 5 publications
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with 4 publications
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems with 3 publications
  • Sensors and Actuators A Physical with 3 publications

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Raman image-activated cell sorting," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "Intelligent image-activated cell sorting 2.0," published in 2020 in Lab on a Chip
  • "Magnetically Actuated Cell-Robot System: Precise Control, Manipulation, and Multimode Conversion," published in 2022 in Small
  • "Deformable ferrofluid-based millirobot with high motion accuracy and high output force," published in 2021 in Applied Physics Letters
  • "A Versatile Optoelectronic Tweezer System for Micro-Objects Manipulation: Transportation, Patterning, Sorting, Rotating and Storage," published in 2021 in Micromachines

Frequent co-authors of Arai include:

  • Hirotaka Sugiura, with 26 joint publications
  • Satoshi Amaya, with 19 joint publications
  • Shiro Watanabe, with 18 joint publications
  • Taisuke Masuda, with 18 joint publications
  • Kanako Harada, with 15 joint publications

Best Publications

  • Intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting

    Nao Nitta;Takeaki Sugimura;Akihiro Isozaki;Hideharu Mikami

  • Assembly of nanodevices with carbon nanotubes through nanorobotic manipulations

    T. Fukuda;F. Arai;L. Dong

  • Mechanism and swimming experiment of micro mobile robot in water

    T. Fukuda;A. Kawamoto;F. Arai;H. Matsuura

  • Turbulence activates platelet biogenesis to enable clinical scale ex vivo production

    Yukitaka Ito;Sou Nakamura;Naoshi Sugimoto;Tomohiro Shigemori

  • Micro manipulation based on micro physics-strategy based on attractive force reduction and stress measurement

    F. Arai;D. Ando;T. Fukuda;Y. Nonoda

  • Swing and locomotion control for a two-link brachiation robot

    F. Saito;T. Fukuda;F. Arai

  • Label-free chemical imaging flow cytometry by high-speed multicolor stimulated Raman scattering.

    Yuta Suzuki;Koya Kobayashi;Yoshifumi Wakisaka;Dinghuan Deng

  • Structure optimization of fuzzy neural network by genetic algorithm

    Hideyuki Ishigami;Toshio Fukuda;Takanori Shibata;Fumihito Arai

  • On-chip magnetically actuated robot with ultrasonic vibration for single cell manipulations

    Masaya Hagiwara;Tomohiro Kawahara;Yoko Yamanishi;Taisuke Masuda

  • Micro active catheter system with multi degrees of freedom

    T. Fukuda;Shuxiang Guo;K. Kosuge;F. Arai

  • Micro mechatronics and micro actuators

    H. Ishihara;F. Arai;T. Fukuda

  • High-speed separation system of randomly suspended single living cells by laser trap and dielectrophoresis.

    Fumihito Arai;Akihiko Ichikawa;Masanobu Ogawa;Toshio Fukuda

  • Raman image-activated cell sorting.

    Nao Nitta;Takanori Iino;Akihiro Isozaki;Mai Yamagishi

  • Electron-beam-induced deposition with carbon nanotube emitters

    Lixin Dong;Fumihito Arai;Toshio Fukuda

  • Synchronized laser micromanipulation of multiple targets along each trajectory by single laser

    Fumihito Arai;Keiichi Yoshikawa;Toshihiro Sakami;Toshio Fukuda

  • Integrated microendeffector for micromanipulation

    F. Arai;D. Andou;Y. Nonoda;T. Fukuda

  • Micro catheter system with active guide wire

    Shuxiang Guo;T. Fukuda;K. Kosuge;F. Arai

  • Giant magnetostrictive alloy (GMA) applications to micro mobile robot as a micro actuator without power supply cables

    T. Fukuda;H. Hosokai;H. Ohyama;H. Hashimoto

  • Two differential flows in a bioreactor promoted platelet generation from human pluripotent stem cell–derived megakaryocytes

    Yosuke Nakagawa;Sou Nakamura;Masahiro Nakajima;Hiroshi Endo

  • New catheter driving method using linear stepping mechanism for intravascular neurosurgery

    F. Arai;R. Fujimura;T. Fukuda;M. Negoro

  • Swing and locomotion control for two-link brachiation robot

    F. Saito;T. Fukuda;F. Arai

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University
Makoto Kaneko
Makoto Kaneko Osaka University
Lixin Dong
Lixin Dong City University of Hong Kong
Kazuhiro Kosuge
Kazuhiro Kosuge University of Hong Kong
Mamoru Mitsuishi
Mamoru Mitsuishi University of Tokyo
Yasuhisa Hasegawa
Yasuhisa Hasegawa Nagoya University
Takanori Shibata
Takanori Shibata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Kenichi Yoshikawa
Kenichi Yoshikawa Doshisha University
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Nobuyuki Uozumi Tohoku University
Mitsuru Akashi
Mitsuru Akashi Osaka University

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