Yoshiyuki sankai biography sample

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Yoshiyuki Sankai received a PhD in engineering from University of Tsukuba in Japan
in 1987. He was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor at the Institute of
Systems & Engineering at the University of Tsukuba, and a Visiting Professor of Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in the United States.

Currently, he is professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering
at the University of Tsukuba, and president and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc.

He was/is a
member of Japan Society of Embolus Detection & Treatment and International Journal of
the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) and executive board member of RSJ.

He is the inventor, creator and driving force behind the advanced robotics, Robot Suit
HAL® (Hybrid Assistive Limb ®) and various Cybernics, medical, care and welfare
technologies.

In 2006 and 2009, he was invited to provide direction to J Yoshiyuki Sankai's Cyborgs Serve Japan's Elderly - Forbes BYD