Masashi Koga, Dr. Eng.
Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Yuji Hosoda
Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Toshio Moriya, Dr. Eng.
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Human-oriented research on robotics is an active field. Researchers in the past tried to build robots that would mimic human beings and perform complicated tasks. Recently, they have shifted their main interest to human-symbiotic robotics in which human beings receive services from robots or are co-workers with robots in performing collaborative tasks. Hitachi began research on robotics at a very early stage and has been involved in many challenging projects since then. Its prototype intelligent robot in the 1970s and its Advanced Quadruped Robot in the 1980s are examples of Hitachi's commitment to this field and the lessons learned from these projects are reflected in our latest EMIEW humanoid robots that act as evolving hubs between the human, machine, and information worlds.
Masashi Koga, Senior Researcher, Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, Hiatchi, Ltd.
832-2 Horiguchi, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki 312-0034, Japan
TEL: +81-29-353-3434
FAX: +81-29-353-3857
robot, humanoid, inverse pendulum, EMIEW, voice recognition
