Name Yoshiyuki Sankai Known for HAL | Nationality Japanese | |
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Net worth $1.0 billion (March 2015) | ||
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Yoshiyuki Sankai is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic, the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne; and professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.
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- Tedxtokyo dr yoshiyuki sankai 05 10 15 english
- Augmenting humanity yoshiyuki sankai
- Early life
- Career
- References
Augmenting humanity yoshiyuki sankai
Early life
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.
Career
Sankai is professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba. He is also visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US.
Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) powered exoskeleton.
References
Yoshiyuki Sankai Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA