Yoshiyuki Sankai
Yoshiyuki Sankai | |
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| Born | 1958/1959 (age 62–63)[1] |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tsukuba |
| Occupation | Founder, president and CEO, Cyberdyne |
| Known for | HAL |
Yoshiyuki Sankai (born 1958/1959) 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.
Early life[]
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.[1]
Career[]
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 HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) powered exoskeleton.[2]
Sankai has appeared in Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
Personal life[]
Sankai lives in Ibaraki, Japan.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Forbes profile: Yoshiyuki Sankai". Forbes. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai". Stanford. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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