Shunji Yamanaka & fuRo

Future Robotics Technology Center (fuRo), established in 2003, has created many robots including survey robots used for the damage inspection in the nuclear disaster site at Fukushima (later displayed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York) and household vacuum cleaner robots through a joint effort with the industry. CanguRo, our latest robot capable of self-driving, following a walking human as well as transforming to a vehicle, was recently on display at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum at New York and on the Design Museum at London.