Yoshiyuki Sankai | |
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| Born | 1958or1959(age 65–66) [1] |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tsukuba |
| Occupation(s) | Founder, president and CEO, Cyberdyne |
| Known for | HAL |
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.
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba. [1]
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).
Yokohama National University, abbreviated to Yokohama Kokudai (横浜国大), Yokokoku (横国) or YNU, is a national university located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 1876, it became a national university in 1949, and currently comprises five graduate schools and four undergraduate faculties.
Waseda University (早稲田大学), abbreviated as Waseda (早稲田) or Sōdai (早大), is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
Nihon University, abbreviated as Nichidai (日大), is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School, was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. The university's name is derived from the Japanese word "Nihon" meaning Japan. Nihon University now has "16 colleges and 87 departments, 20 postgraduate schools, 1 junior college which is composed of 5 departments, 1 correspondence division, 32 research institutes and 3 hospitals." The number of students exceeds 70,000 and is the largest in Japan.
Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.
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The University of Tsukuba is a national research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Osaka Institute of Technology, abbreviated as Dai kōdai (大工大), Han kōdai (阪工大), or Osaka kōdai (大阪工大) is a private university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. OIT has 3 campuses, Omiya campus located in Asahi-ku, Osaka City, Umeda campus located in Kita-ku, Osaka City and Hirakata campus located in Hirakata City.
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Toyohashi University of Technology, often abbreviated to Toyohashi Tech or TUT, is a national engineering university located in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Distinguished for the upper-division student body where over 80% of them are transfer students from 5-year Technical Colleges called Kōsens, the Toyohashi Tech is one of the only two Universities of Technology, a form of universities in Japan, the other being Nagaoka University of Technology. Toyohashi Tech is also noted for the fact that majority of the students proceed to graduate schools. The university is locally nicknamed Gikadai (技科大).
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