Projects & Events

Work at the company I co-founded

I co-founded Cocoreach Inc., which develops LUMION, a purchase-prediction system built on emotion-analysis technology. As deputy CEO and CTO, I handle everything from corporate planning to technology selection and overall direction of development.

Joining an AI startup as an early member

I was an early member of the AI startup UNCHAIN (formerly Conexus), joining back in its predecessor days. I handled specification work and prototyping for AI-driven robots, and development negotiations with overseas engineers.

A controllable penlight that lights the audience one unit at a time

A penlight that can be controlled all at once from the venue side. As a product of Cocoreach Inc., I develop everything from the control board and enclosure to the definition of the communication protocol.

A purchase-prediction system that visualizes audience excitement through biometric sensing

A system that embeds biometric sensors into penlights and other live-event merchandise and quantifies audience excitement in real time from heart rate and electrodermal activity. I lead its technical development as deputy CEO and CTO of Cocoreach Inc.

A plush-toy device that moves in sync with your favorite performer's heartbeat

A plush-toy device that reproduces heartbeat, breathing, and body warmth in sync with a favorite performer's heart rate. Selected as a finalist at TOKYO STARTUP GATEWAY 2024 and Why-Me?, and actually used by an idol in the PoC.

Finalist, TOKYO STARTUP GATEWAY 2024

Proposing and creating characters to be the face of the club

Together with club members, I planned and created the robotics club's official characters, 乃木須創愛 and 衣笠明星. At School Festival 2022 they served as exhibition guides and appeared on original goods, contributing to the Best Exhibition Award.

A desktop PCB fabricator: the board you design by day is in your hands the next morning

A machine that fabricates double-sided printed circuit boards on a desktop in a matter of hours, combining CNC milling with a proprietary electroless plating process. Development began with a problem I ran into in high school; the project has since been selected for NEDO NEP and is now moving toward commercialization.

Science Castle 2021: 5th THK Award, Best Development Award and Encouragement Award

A Rescue Maze robot, developed entirely from scratch, that won the world championship

A competition robot that autonomously navigates a maze-like disaster site to find victims. We developed the mechanics, circuits, and software entirely from scratch, using no commercial kits, and won the RCJ 2021 national championship and the SuperTeam title at the world championship.

RoboCupJunior 2021 Rescue Maze national championship: 1st place

An autonomous robot that set the youngest-ever record at Tsukuba Challenge 2022 as a high school team

We entered the Tsukuba Challenge, where robots drive autonomously through real city streets, as a high school team. As development leader I directed the autonomous robot Mintaka, and we passed the confirmation section as the youngest participants in the event, while still in high school.

Tsukuba Challenge 2022: passed the confirmation section (youngest-ever record, as high school students)

An electric kick scooter built from the chassis to the electronics

I designed and built an electric kick scooter from scratch, from the CAD design of the chassis to the boost converter circuit and a homemade PCB. I checked the relevant statutes and ministerial ordinances one by one, all the way to full compliance with the safety standards.

A pose-tracking cart that drives after a person

A cart built by electrifying a pedal cart for three-year-olds with an industrial three-phase motor; it follows a person automatically using MediaPipe pose recognition. It can also carry a rider. It won the Effort Award at the Geek CAMP hackathon.

Geek CAMP vol.10 hackathon: Effort Award

A machine that plays a melodica from MIDI

A machine that automatically plays a melodica from MIDI data. It grew out of Music2023, an auto-performance program with its own score format, and eventually performed together with a Tesla coil.

Building a process to pass the club's knowledge to the next generation

The robotics club had no mechanism for passing knowledge between generations, so I designed the training process for new members from scratch during a school closure. At its core, I produced an educational textbook of over 300 pages and the manual for a hands-on learning kit.

A property database tool that searches by floor plan and travel time

A tool that takes floor-plan images and listing data, computes rent, floor area, and the actual travel time to a destination, and builds it all into a database. I made it to choose my own next home; a real-estate company then commissioned it, and I now provide the underlying system.

A large-scale data classification pipeline built on LLMs

A batch pipeline that automatically classified hundreds of thousands of Japanese text records with an LLM. Commissioned by a research institution at a university, I implemented concurrency control, cost optimization, and failure recovery in careful detail and carried the full real dataset through to completion.

Commercializing the desktop PCB fabrication machine Alnilam

Alnilam was selected for NEP Kaitaku Course 2026, a startup support program run by NEDO. I am working toward IP acquisition, development of a kit version, and field trials.

Selected for NEDO NEP Kaitaku Course 2026

Stanford Student Innovator Course (2nd cohort) & Design Thinking Bootcamp (44th cohort)

Selected for the 2nd cohort of the JETRO J-StarX Stanford Student Innovator Course, I spent three weeks in the US. I completed the 44th cohort of the Stanford d.school Design Thinking Bootcamp and studied the US market and design thinking on the ground.

Selected for the JETRO J-StarX Stanford Student Innovator Course (2nd cohort)

US market entry program in Los Angeles (3rd cohort)

Selected for the 3rd cohort of Beyond Japan Zero to X, a JETRO program that supports entry into the US market. Based in Los Angeles, I worked on validating the North American live entertainment market and building connections with investors and companies.

Selected for JETRO Beyond Japan Zero to X (3rd cohort)

Hongo Tech Garage, the University of Tokyo

I was selected for the Startup Founders Program at the University of Tokyo's Hongo Tech Garage. I learned hypothesis-driven thinking and methods for sharpening problem resolution, and applied them to validating Alnilam's business hypotheses.

Selected for the Startup Founders Program at Hongo Tech Garage, the University of Tokyo

Grand Prize, Hardware & Embedded Category (Alnilam)

I entered Geekten 2022, a proving ground for student engineers, with Alnilam and won the Grand Prize in the Hardware & Embedded category.

Geekten 2022 Hardware & Embedded Category Grand Prize

Selection for the accelerator program and our activities there

Cocoreach Inc. was selected for the accelerator program at 100BANCH, a hub for future creation in Shibuya run by the general incorporated association Hyakubanchi. We are advancing development and field trials of LUMION.

Selected for the 100BANCH accelerator program

LUMION's first field trial

At Nanananasai, the festival hosted by 100BANCH, we ran the first field trial of the biometric sensing device LUMION. The emotion-recognition and heart-rate measurement modules operated live at the venue.

Best Development Award and Encouragement Award, 5th THK Prize (Alnilam)

I entered Science Castle 2021, a research conference for secondary school students organized by Leave a Nest, with Alnilam and won both the Best Development Award and the Encouragement Award of the 5th THK Prize.

Science Castle 2021 5th THK Prize: Best Development Award and Encouragement Award

Summer program in Estonia

I attended the Summer School at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) in Estonia. I experienced the technology and institutions of a leading e-government country on the ground.

Participant, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) Summer School 2024

An international team development program where I ended up on the teaching side for ROS 2

I took part in the Global PBL summer program held at the College of Engineering of Pusan National University in Korea, selected for a scholarship. In the ROS 2 and robot control sessions I effectively ended up teaching, and I completed all seven sessions in English.

Selected for the Shibaura Institute of Technology Global PBL scholarship

Rebuilding the robotics club's exhibition and winning the Best Exhibition Award

At the first regular school festival in three years, I rebuilt the robotics club's exhibition from the ground up as club president. Visitor numbers reached nine times the pre-COVID-19 level, and the exhibition won the Best Exhibition Award.

School Festival 2022 Best Exhibition Award

Documentary coverage of my activities

My activities, centered on robot development, were covered in a documentary feature on the TV Tokyo program "THE Meimonko".

Featured in documentary coverage on TV Tokyo "THE Meimonko"

Workshop presentation in Kanazawa

I presented at the workshop "Bridging Soft Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction to Open New Potential Spaces" at IEEE RoboSoft 2026, an international conference held in Kanazawa.

Presented at an IEEE RoboSoft 2026 workshop