Dr. Suguru Arimoto received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1959 and Dr. Eng. Degree in control engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1967. Since 1997 he has been a Professor in the Department of Robotics at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His research interests include: information theory, control theory, cybernetics, robotics, and machine intelligence. Dr, Arimoto is an IEEE Fellow (1983), IEICE Fellow (2000), RSJ Fellow (2003), and JSME Fellow (2005), and was awarded the Royal Medal with a Purple Ribbon from the Japanese Government in 2000 and th...