Kazuo Kiguchi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree from Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 1986, the M.A.Sc. degree from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 1993, and the D.E. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1997.,He worked with Mazda Motor Corporation, from 1986 to 1989, and MHI Aerospace Systems Corporation, from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 and 1999, he was with the Niigata College of Technology, Niigata. He was with the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Japan, from 1999 and 2012. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests include biorobotics, human-assist robots, rehabilitation robots, and application of robotics in medicine. Dr. Kiguchi is a vice-president of the Robotics Society of Japan. He is a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. He is also a member of the Japan Society of Computer-Aided Surgery, the Society of Biomechanisms Japan, and the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering. He received the JSME Funai Award, the JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper, the JSME Medal for Distinguished Engineers, and the Lifetime Achievement Award at WAC2014.