Hiroshi Ishiguro

Dept. of Adaptive Machine - Systems,Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

Session

 He participated in the "Biorobotics" session.

Biography

Hiroshi Ishiguro (M’) received a D.Eng. in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University (2002–). He is also Visiting Group Leader (2002–) of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, where he previously worked as Visiting Researcher (1999–2002). He was previously Research Associate (1992–1994) in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University and Associate Professor (1998–2000) in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was also Visiting Scholar (1998–1999) at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He then became Associate Professor (2000–2001) and Professor (2001–2002) in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at Wakayama University.

Research Interests

His research areas are omnidirectional vision, distributed vision, sensor networks, humanoid robots, and android robots. In the last several years, he has mainly focused on development of humanoids and androids. For developing them, he is getting over 2 million dollars every year as research grants from Japanese government and private companies. The most successful robot he has made was exhibited in Nagoya World Expo 05, for which he is recognized as the father of the world first android. The activities have been introduced by almost all major TVs, such as BBC, and newspapers in the world. Recently, he has been selected as one of 100 geniuses alive in this world by Synectics (UK, 2007).