Speaker

Prof. Kensuke Harada (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. He is currently a Professor working at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Research Associate at Graduate Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA, USA. Before joining Osaka University, he was a Researcher at National Inst. of AIST, Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include mechanics and control of humanoid robots and robotic hands.