Jumpei Saito

Publications

Academic publications, proceedings, posters, demos, and invited talks.

2026

BaSiL climbing wooden steps, with an inset showing tendon-driven bending of its beaded spine

BaSiL: A Tendon-Driven Beaded Spine Robot for Shape-Adaptive Locomotion

Jumpei Saito, Rebecca Carpenter, Shashwat Singh, Zeynep Temel

Miniature Multiterrain and Multimodal Locomotion: from Biology to Robotics, IROS 2026 Workshop

  • Best Demo 3rd Prize
PaperPosterWorkshop websiteRelated work
Two-module wheeled mobile robot connected by a tendon-driven beaded spine, with an inset showing tendon-driven bending

A Tendon-Driven Beaded Spine Robot for Shape-Adaptive Locomotion

Jumpei Saito, Shashwat Singh, Rebecca Carpenter, Zeynep Temel

When Muscles Think: The Embodied Intelligence of Biological and Robotic Actuation, IROS 2026 Workshop

PaperPosterWorkshop websiteRelated work
Tendon-driven mobile robot with two bead-based spines connecting three wheeled modules

A Tendon-Driven Bead-Based Spine for Shape Adaptive Mobile Robot

Jumpei Saito, Shashwat Singh, Becca Carpenter, Zeynep Temel

Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) 2026

PosterVideoResearch showcaseRelated work
A gray inflatable tube arranged into a freeform curve on a worktable

Single-Stroke Inflatable Tubes Deforming into Freeform Planar Curves

Rin Ishiguro, Jumpei Saito, Mayuka Kuwana, Takumi Yamamoto, Naoki Kobayashi, Ko Fujino, Koya Narumi

ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Posters

DOISIGGRAPH presentation

A Method to Synthesize Worn-Out Fabric Texture with a Physical Image Dataset [in Japanese]

Kaito Kikuchi, Jumpei Saito, Takeo Igarashi, Koya Narumi

88th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

Presentation abstract

Implementing a Mobile 3D Printer that can Localize a Printing Position via Natural Language Instruction [in Japanese]

Hiroto Horie, Daniel Campos Zamora, Liang He, Jumpei Saito, Koya Narumi

88th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

Presentation abstract

Implementing Deployable and Freeform Balloon Structures with a Single-Stroke Pouch Motor [in Japanese]

Rin Ishiguro, Jumpei Saito, Takumi Yamamoto, Mayuka Kuwana, Koya Narumi

IPSJ SIG Technical Report, 2026-HCI-216

IPSJ Digital Library

2025

RoboCup 2024 OnStage League Overall Champion: Challenges and Future of Developing Interfaces for Expressing Virtual Worlds [in Japanese]

Jumpei Saito, Ryuki Tsuji, Tomohiko Iida

WIDE Camp, March 2025

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2024

An Interactive Method for Displaying Images Larger than a Screen Using a Mobile Actuated Display [in Japanese]

Jumpei Saito, Koya Narumi

86th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

  • Best Poster Presentation Award
PosterSession programRelated work