Yoshiyuki Sankai

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.

[1] Sankai is a professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.

[2] Sankai led the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne team that developed the Hybrid Assistive Limb powered exoskeleton.

[2] Sankai later became an international fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).