Since the latter half of the 20th century, there has been a long boom in robotics research, but it does not seem to have necessarily led to the realization of useful robots. As a robotics researcher, I would like to self-critically identify the problems of the robotics boom and describe the ideas that are necessary to solve them.

Living organisms have a variety of rhythms, which are created by the synchronization of cell populations. Our heart and the 24-hour internal clock operate by the collective synchronized activity of vibrations at the cellular level. Walking and swimming in living organisms are also made possible by specific synchronized patterns of limb and cilia populations. In this lecture, I will focus on a subject that I have been involved in research on synchronization, and which I expect to be an interesting subject for experimental research. I hope this will be a good starting point for collaborative research.

Organisms have an instinctive behavior called self-selection to search for and consume necessary nutrients. This behavior was first proposed in the 1930s, but its molecular mechanism remains largely unexplained. Using insects, we have shown that this self-selection is regulated by the endocrine and metabolic systems. In this seminar, we will discuss our latest findings on the molecular mechanism of "What do we eat? In this seminar, we will introduce our latest results on the molecular mechanism of "What do we eat?