Shigeo Hirose, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shigeo Hirose

Japanese academic

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Profession: engineer, inventor, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Shigeo Hirose (?? ??, Hirose Shigeo) (born 1947 in Tokyo) is an award-winning pioneer of robotics technology and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Born in Tokyo and attending Hibiya High School, he graduated from Yokohama National University in 1971 and received a Ph.D from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 where he later took professorship.His works includes designs for robots capable of various types of movement such as walking, crawling, swimming and slithering.
Specific designs include a "ninja-robot" capable of climbing buildings and a seven-ton robot capable of climbing mountainous slopes with the aim of installing bolts in the ground so as to prevent landslides.
Hirose is also involved in work with the United Nations to develop a remotely controlled robot capable of clearing landmines.