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© JAMSTEC

Invitation for the Events To Mark the Port Call of the Deep-sea Drilling Vessel "Chikyu" at Shingu Port


The Deep-sea Drilling Vessel "Chikyu" operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC; Mr. Yasuhiro Kato, President) will arrive at Shingu Port on February 5, after completing her first mission "Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE)" for Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)(*1). To mark the port call of the "Chikyu" , we will hold International Symposium and the Open House of the "Chikyu". The "Chikyu" is scheduled to set sail from Shingu Port on February 12.
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(*1): Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international marine research drilling program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of Earth by monitoring and sampling subseafloor environments. Through multiple platforms, preeminent scientists explore IODP principal themes: the deep biosphere, environmental change, and solid earth cycles. IODP has been operating since October 2003, led by Japan and the USA. IODP now has 21 member countries.

CHIKYU Information Portal CHIKYU HAKKEN
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/eng/CHIKYU/index.html

[Life Sciences]

Figure 1:　A newly developed 51 degrees of freedom humanoid robot, CBi.(Computational Brain -interface)

World's First Bipedal Locomotion with a Humanoid Robot Controlled by Cortical Ensemble Activity with a Real-time Network Brain Interface (By relaying monkey’s brain activity from USA to Japan, we were able to control our humanoid robot in Japan to walk in similar manner as the monkey in USA)
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has succeeded to make a humanoid robot locomote via data detected from cortical brain activity that transmitted through an internet interface between U.S.A and Japan in real time. Recent studies of how the brain generates behaviors are progressing rapidly. While at the same time as, development of humanoid robots that act like humans is now part of the focus of robotic research.
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Figure 2:　Experimental overview Detecting walking related information from a monkey's brain activity while walking on a treadmill, we were able to relay these data from Duke university in USA to the Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR) in Japan in real time. We then were able to control our humanoid robot in Japan to locomote in a similar manner as the monkey (visual feedback of the robot is presented to the monkey.)

JST Press Release No.461
http://www.jst.go.jp/pr/info/info461/index_e.html

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/index.html

Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=monkey-think-robot-do

[Nanotechnology and Materials]

Figure 1:　Time-series of Laue diffraction images of shock-induced lattice deformation processes of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystal. Each diffraction image was obtained only by a single-bunch X-ray pulse with duration of 100ps.

Lattice dynamics of materials under high strain is a field of great interest in material physics. Scientists at KEK, along with a team at TITECH and JST have managed to observe time-series of shock-induced lattice deformation processes of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystal by 100-ps time-resolved single-shot Laue diffraction method.
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High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK
http://www.kek.jp/intra-e/index.html