KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, in Tsukuba, near Tokyo, will go live on May 24th.

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Yoshiyuki Sankai, at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, proudly continues Japan's long tradition of innovative--and surprising--humanoid robots.

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After earning an undergraduate and a masters degree in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda headed to art school in Japan at Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design, obtaining a PhD in graphic design.

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The first of those took place last July, when Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the CNRS-AIST joint robotics laboratory at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, and his team used FMRI to allow someone to control a robot located thousands of miles away using only their thoughts.

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