Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Takemura was born in Oita, Japan, in 1976. He received his B.S. degree in Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1999. He then attended the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, where he received his M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2003) degrees in Information Engineering. During the periods of October 2003–March 2004 and January 2005–May 2005, he was employed as a Lecturer (PT) at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan. From April 2004 to December 2004, he visited the University of Karlsruhe, Germany as a guest lecturer in Industrial Applications of Information and Microsystems. In 2005, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan, where he has been a Professor since 2019. His research interests include robotics, medical devices, bio-mechanics, gait analysis, and human modeling.