He is a professor of Adaptive Machine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University, Japan.
[1] He is a research leader for and director of neuroscience robotics and Constructive Developmental Science based on understanding the process of neuro-dynamics to social interaction.
In 1982 he began to research “computer vision”, or pattern recognition, and the structure of motion in mobile robots.
He served as president of the International RoboCup Federation from 2002 to 2008 and Research “Director of the ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project of ERATO” from 2005 to 2011.
[1] In 2012, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction.