Lectures
Pioneering the Future of Science and Technology Innovation in Asia through Cybernics
Synopsis
The Japanese government is promoting the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP Program) as the most important strategic science and technology innovation policy initiative led by the Cabinet Office. Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, SIP Program Director of “Cybernics” including human-collaborative robotics, a field in which Japan has global strengths, aims to advance Asia as one of its International collaborative hubs, and hopes to work with the Asian countries, together with the Governments, Companies and Universities, through collaboration with Japan. And he wishes to promote the Social Innovation and the science and technology innovation for the future of Asia and Japan through Cybernics that fuses humans and Cyber/Physical space. As the global population continues to grow old, the number of persons requiring care is on the rise. Whether in hospitals, facilities, or their own homes, they need daily treatment, functional improvement, health management, and nursing care support. There is a high demand for innovative technologies for progress observation, continuous therapy, health management, early detection, prevention, managing physical states, physiological states, and control of lifestyle-related diseases in an integrated manner across different spaces. “Cybernics: fusion of Humans, AI-Robots and Information Systems” is an innovation field following the robotics industry and the IT industry. Cybernics can solve super-aging society’s problems and extend healthy life expectancy from physical and physiological (including psychological and social aspects). perspectives. Through Cybernics that integrate the “Human” and “Cyber/Physical space”, Dr. Sankai rises to the challenge of realizing “Cybernics Medical and Healthcare Innovation.” The areas of research and development range from the cellular level to robotics, cyborg technology, HAL, Cybernics treatment, artificial intelligence, IoH/IoT, vital sensor “Cyvis”, human Big Data, C-Cloud, data analysis and AI processing, international standardization, social implementation, international deployment, and many more. In this talk, Prof. Dr. Sankai will discuss the possibilities and future strategies for Asia and Japan to work together to promote initiatives in the field of “Cybernics”, a leading-edge innovation area following the robotics and IT industries, in terms of medical and healthcare innovation, science and technology innovation, and the development of future pioneering human resources.
Brief Biography
Yoshiyuki SANKAI earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Tsukuba in Japan in 1987. He has progressed from being a research fellow at the JSPS to assistant professor, associate professor, and then professor at the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. Dr. Sankai was also a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in the United States. Currently, he is a professor, the Executive Research Director at the Center for Cybernics Research and the Director at the F-MIRAI of the University of Tsukuba, the President and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc., and a Program Director of SIP promoted by the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan. Dr. Sankai successively held the position of Leader/PM for the FIRST program and ImPACT program, both initiated by the Japanese Cabinet Office, and the Business producer of the Program for Building Regional Innovation Ecosystem by MEXT. He also served as an Executive Board Member of Advanced Robotics, a member of Global Agenda Council on Robotics & Smart Devices, a Center Partner of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a member of the Global Future Council of Production, and a member of the Global Precision Medicine Council of the WEF. Now, he is a fellow of the Robotics Society of Japan (“RSJ”) and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (“SICE”). And he is also appointed as an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (“IVA”).
Lecture Date
Monday, June 17, 2024