Yoshiyuki Sankai | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 or 1959 (age 64–65)[1] |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tsukuba |
| Occupation(s) | 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.
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.[1]
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 later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
