Starting a Collaboration Project for the Creation of New Value and Future Life through the Cybernetic Avatar and Haptics Technology

Research groups including Professor Kouta Minamizawa (KMD), Professor Yoshihiro Tanaka (NITech), and the Japan Craftsmen’s Association are starting a collaboration project for the creation of new value and future life through the cybernetic avatar and haptics technology.

Prof. Minamizawa is the project manager for Cybernetic Avatar Technology and Social System Design for Harmonious Co-experience and Collective Ability of Moonshot Goal1”Realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050.”

Also, they aim at participating in “Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai” with Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.


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