Inoue to receive IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

The IEEE Board of Directors announced that Hirochika Inoue will be awarded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award 'for original and continuous contributions to research in intelligent robotics, in particular to real-time vision and humanoid robotics."

During his 40 years of robotics research and development, from 1965 as graduate students to
university retirement as professor in 2004, Professor Inoue opened wide key areas of robotics such as compliant
control of robot actuation, real-time vision system for robots, planning and programming of robots,
system integration, hand-eye systems, vision guided vehicle, and humanoids. As Professor Emeritus of
University of Tokyo, his experience and insight of robotics research urned to research funding as
well as support of robotized future society. From April 2004, he was appointed as the Inspector
General, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). With other leading scholars, he edited and
wrote New Textbook of Robotics in 7 volumes. This series of New Robotics are published from Iwanami
Ltd. as follows, (1) Establishment of New Robotics, (2) Robot Motion, (3) Robot Vision, (4) Robot
Intelligence, (5) Robot Informatics, (6) Robot Frontiers, and (7) Robot Anatomy.