InterRobot Inc.

President & CEO

Name
　 Hiroki Ogawa, PhD., born in 1966

Education

• March 1989/ Graduated from Mechanical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University


• From April 1997 through March 2002, engaged in the study of interaction robot at Okayama Prefectural University Graduate School of Systems Engineering Course of Mechanical and Information Systems, and obtained the degree of PhD in Engineering.

Career

• April 1989, Joined Toyota Motor and engaged in development of various auto-parts as well as air-bags for front passenger seat in Interior Design Department


• September 1992, moved to Coretech Inc. and engaged in machinery design in Engineering Department as well as products design in Products Department. Since 1996, engaged in Information Technology business in Internet Promotion Office.


• March 2000/ Was elected President & CEO of InterRobot Inc.

The public projects in which he participated

• 1996 - 1998 Soja-area Intranet Experiment (Okayama Prefecture Highly-Networked Information Society Experimental Trial)


• 1998 - 1999 Science & Technology Agency Regional Science Promotor Program (RSP)“Research & Development of Human-care Interaction Robot”


• 1999 - 2000 The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Public Invitation Project for New Industry Creation “R&D of Development of Embodied Interaction Robots Based on an Entrainment Principle in Human Communication”


• 2001 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Project (CREST) by Japan Science and Technology Agency“Information Technology for Daily Life in Highly-Networked Society: E-COSMIC, Embodied Communication System for Mind Connection


• 2003 - 2004 NEDO Next Generation Robot Practical Application Project (Prototype
  Development Assistance Project):“ R&D of Bodily Communication Robot which cheers up children”.

Other Notes:

• Won the Best Presentation Award of Human Interface Academy (October 1999)


• Awarded The Second Murakawa Industry Library Technology Encouragement Prize(May 2006)


• Membership/ Human Interface Academy


• Interest/Watching football games


• Cherished motto/ To be born into this world means you've come to accomplish a mission
  (Words of Ryoma Sakamoto, January 3, 1836– 10 December 1867 , a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate during its last days in Japan)


• Favorite proverb/ “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

Technology Advisor

■Technology Advisor

Okayama Prefectural University, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering , Department of Systems Engineering
Technology Advisor　Prof. Tomio Watanabe, （Tomio Watanabe)