Eiichi Yoshida

Eiichi Yoshida received M.E and Ph. D degrees on Precision Machinery Engineering from Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1996. He then joined former Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, later in 2001 reorganized as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He served as Co-Director of AIST-CNRS JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory) at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, from 2004 to 2008, and at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan from 2009 to 2021. He was also Deputy Director of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center, and TICO-AIST Cooperative Research Laboratory for Advanced Logistics in AIST from 2020 to 2021. From 2022, he is Professor of Tokyo University of Science, from 2022 to 2023 at Department of Applied Electronics, from 2023 at Department of Medical and Robotic Engineering Design, Faculty of Advanced Engineering. He was previously invited as visiting professor at Karlsrule Institute of Technology and University of Tsukuba.

His research interests include robot task and motion planning, human modeling, humanoid robotics and advanced logistics technology.