Yoshiyuki Sankai Explained

Yoshiyuki Sankai
Birth Date:[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.

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 Hybrid Assistive Limb powered exoskeleton.[2] Sankai later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Personal life

Sankai lives in Ibaraki, Japan.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Forbes profile: Yoshiyuki Sankai . Forbes. 21 June 2018.
  2. Web site: Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai. Stanford. 4 March 2015.