Founder and CEO of Robo Garage, Visiting Professor of Osaka Electro-Communication University and former Research Associate Professor of The University of Tokyo. Developed robot astronaut “Kirobo”, robot smartphone “RoBoHoN”, kit magazine “Robi”, Panasonic TVCM “EVOLTA” and RoboCup winner “VisiON”.
Awards: TIME magazine ‘Coolest Inventions 2004’, Popular Science magazine
‘33 persons changing the future’, 5 Guinness World Records for Evolta and Kirobo, and Robo-cup world champion 2004-2008.

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