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Kazuo Tanie

Department Director-General

Robotics Department

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI

1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan

phone: +81-XXX-XX-7084 fax: +81-XXX-XX-7275

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Kazuo Tanie was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1946. He received the B.E., M.S., Dr.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 1969, 1971, and 1980, respectively. In 1971, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST-MITI. He is currently the Director of the Robotics Department in MEL. Also, since 1992, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Course of Engineering Mechanics in Cooperative Graduate School, University of Tsukuba, Japan, and since 1996, a Visiting Professor at the Advanced Research Center for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. From August 1981 to August 1982, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in September of 1995, He was a Visiting Professor at Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy.

His research interests include tactile sensors and their application to dexterous manipulation, force and compliance control for robotic arms and hands, virtual reality and its application to telerobotics, human skill understanding and its realization by nonlinear control, macro-micro tele-manipulation, human-robot coexisting systems, power assist systems and humanoids.

He was a Program Co-Chair of the 1991 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'91), and General Chair of the 1996 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication (RoMan'96). He was a Vice Program Co-Chair for the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Currently, he is Vice President of the Robotic Society of Japan, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Virtual Reality in Robotics, and Chair of the IEEE Tokyo Chapter in Robotics and Automation.

Contact tanie@mel.go.jp