is a professor of Graduate School of Media Design at

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and Professor Emeritus of the

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Education

Dr. Tachi received the B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and information physics from the

in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively.

Academic career

He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the

in 1973, and in 1975 moved to the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, where he served as the Director of the Biorobotics Division. From 1979 to 1980, Dr. Tachi was a Japanese Government Award Senior Visiting Scientist at the

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, Cambridge, USA, and in 1988 he serves as Chairman of the IMEKO ( International Measurement Confederation) Technical Committee on Measurement in

Robotics Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...

. In 1989 he rejoined the

Research

His scientific achievements includes intelligent mobile robot systems for the blind called Guide Dog Robot (1976–1983) and National Large Scale Project on Advanced Robotics, especially advanced human robot systems with a real-time sensation of presence known as Telexistence (Tele-Existence) (1983–1990). His present research covers telexistence, real-time remote robotics (R-Cubed) and

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video gam ...

Organisational affiliations

Prof. Tachi is also a founding director of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), a fellow of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) and is the founding president of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ). See also his work on cloaking technology.()

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