Founder and CEO of Robo Garage, Research Associate Professor of The University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor of Osaka Electro-Communication University. Creates, designs, and invents unique and original Humanoids including robot astronaut “Kirobo”, robot smartphone “RoBoHoN”, the world best seller “Robi”, and Guinness record holder “Evolta”.

Awards: TIME magazine ‘Coolest Inventions 2004’, Popular Science magazine ‘33 persons changing the future’, 3 Guinness world records for Evolta and Kirobo, and Robo-cup world champion 2004-2008.