The Robotic Nimbus AI-Enabled Robots for Personalized Care and Human Empowerment

Yasuhisa Hirata is a Professor in the Department of Robotics at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees

in mechanical engineering from Tohoku University in 1998, 2000, and 2004, respectively. He has conducted research on human–robot interaction, multi-robot coordination, and factory automation. He served as a project manager of the Moonshot R&D Program in Japan. He also served as an AdCom member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee Cluster on Health and Medical Robotics.



Fumi Seto received her Ph.D. in Engineering from the Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2008. Since her graduate student days, she has conducted research on human-cooperative robots and has also written articles to communicate robotics and science to the general public. She currently works as a science writer (“Writer-Engineer”). She also served as an assistant project manager for the Moonshot R&D Program led by Prof. Yasuhisa Hirata, and as a Board Member of the Robotics Society of Japan from 2024 to 2026.