Experience
Career
□ Telexistence Inc. | Co-Founder ＆ CTO
Mar 2017 - Present
□ AI Robot Association (AIRoA) | Member Board of Directors
Jan 2025 - Present
□ Sony | Engineer
Apr 2011 - Mar 2016
□ The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of IST | M.S. in Information Science
Apr 2009 - Mar 2011
Committee Roles / Projects
□ AIRoA | Comittee Chair, Data Collection & Foundation Model WG
Jan 2025 - Present
□ Japan Robot Association | Service-Manipulator Std. Committee Member
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
□ Virtual Reality Society of Japan | Tele-existence Committee Member
2021
□ NEDO, Government Subsidy | Lead Researcher, Connected Industries AI Program
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Awards
□ Japan Startup Awards 2025 - Grand Prize (Government Award)
□ Forbes JAPAN Entrepreneur Ranking 2024 - No. 7
□ Forbes JAPAN Entrepreneur Ranking 2023 - Top 20
Activities
2026.Feb.06 Presented at the GPU UNITE study meetup "Robotics x AI x Automation Frontline": "How Physical AI Changes GPU Usage: The Inference-and-Learning Loop Enabled by Robots and Teleoperation."
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2026.Jan.30 Spoke in a special panel session at the "DX&AI Forum", a lecture event on AI digital strategy.
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2025.Dec.05 Joined a panel discussion at the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) NEDO session, "The Future of Industry Transformed by AI Robotics."
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2025.Oct.16 Delivered a special keynote at Robotics NEXT Tokyo 2025 hosted by Nikkei BP: "Teleoperated Robots and the Path to Practical Physical AI."
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2025.Aug.27 Received the Prime Minister's Award at Japan Startup Awards 2025 and was honored at the Prime Minister's Office.
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2025.Aug.08 Featured in Nikkei Robotics interview on practical implementation of AI robots.
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2025.Aug.22 Provided commentary for Nikkei video article on humanoid robot development.
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2025.03.27 TV-Tokyo World Business Satellite: interview on AI robots
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2025.03.27 Panelist, Waseda Univ. × AIRoA Next-Gen Robotics Symposium
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2025.03.01 Authored article comparing robotics foundation models
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2025.01.24 Interview featured in Microsoft Azure customer story
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2024.01.18 Ranked No. 7 in Forbes JAPAN Entrepreneur Ranking 2024
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2020.10.09 Dialogue on “Co-evolution of AI & Humans” with Prof. Yutaka Matsuo at Innovation Garden
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2020.10.07 Speaker at NVIDIA GTC 2020: “Retail Evolution via Telexistence Robots”
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