Hiroshi Ishiguro received a DEng in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently professor of Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009-) and distinguished professor of Osaka University (2017-). He is also visiting director (2014-) (group leader: 2002-2013) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and an ATR fellow. Ishiguro was previously research associate (1992-1994) in the School of Engineering Science at Osaka University and Associate Professor (1998-2000) in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was also visiting scholar (1998-1999) at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He was associate professor (2000-2001) and Professor (2001-2002) in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at Wakayama University. Ishiguro then moved to Department of Adaptive Machine Systems in the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University as a professor (2002-2009). His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science. Especially, his android studies are well-known very much in the world. He received the Osaka Cultural Award in 2011. In 2015, he received the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) by the minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT). He was also awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in Dubai in 2015.