Yoshiyuki Sankai
Japanese businessman and academic
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.2
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Born 1958.1
Companies
- Cyberdyne Inc.Founder11
Early life and education
- Date not recordedIbaraki University3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Tsukuba3
- Date not recordedOkayama Prefectural Okayama Asahi High School3
Sankai has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Tsukuba.
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Career
Occupation: researcher, engineer.7
- Since 1987Professor, University of Tsukuba4 5
- Date not recordedFounded Cyberdyne Inc.6
Sankai is a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba. He is also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US.
Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the Hybrid Assistive Limb powered exoskeleton.
Sankai later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
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Personal life
Sankai lives in Ibaraki, Japan.
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Awards
- Date not recordedMedal with Purple Ribbon10
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- 1WikidataYoshiyuki Sankai on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaYoshiyuki Sankai on Wikipedia
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- 11WikidataCyberdyne Inc., Founder