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Yoshiyuki Sankai

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Yoshiyuki Sankai
Born1958 or 1959 (age 65–66)[1]
NationalityJapanese
EducationUniversity of Tsukuba
Occupation(s)Founder, president and CEO, Cyberdyne
Known forHAL

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.

Early life

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Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.[1]

Career

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Cyberdyne headquarters

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

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Sankai lives in Ibaraki, Japan.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Forbes profile: Yoshiyuki Sankai". Forbes. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai". Stanford. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.