Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic. He is the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne, as well as a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.
Yoshiyuki Sankai | |
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| Born | 1958 or 1959 (age 65–66)[1] |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tsukuba |
| Occupation(s) | Founder, president and CEO, Cyberdyne |
| Known for | HAL |
Early life
editSankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.[1]
Career
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Sankai is a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.[2] He is also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US.[2]
Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the Hybrid Assistive Limb powered exoskeleton.[2] Sankai later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Personal life
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Forbes profile: Yoshiyuki Sankai". Forbes. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai". Stanford. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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