Prof. Masahiko Inami, Ph.D.
Special Advisor to the President for The University of Tokyo,
Deputy Director / Professor for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Title: JIZAI Body: beyond human limits
The social revolutions have accompanied innovation of the view of the body. If we
regard the information revolution as establishment of a virtual society against the real society, it is
necessary to design a new view of body “JIZAI body (Virtual Cyborg),” which can adapt freely to
the change of social structure, and establish a new view of the body. In this talk, we discuss how
we understand of basic knowledge about the body editing for construction of JIZAI body (Virtual
Cyborg) based on VR, AR and Robotics. Superhuman Sports: Applying Human Augmentation to
Physical Exercise.
Prof. Masahiko Inami took up his current position as professor at the University of
Tokyo after working at the University of Electro-Communications and Keio University. His
interests include “JIZAI body editing technology,” the Augmented Human, and entertainment
engineering. He has received several awards, including TIME Magazine’s “Coolest Invention of
the Year” award and the Young Scientist Award and Research Category Award from the Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). He is also a director of the
Information Processing Society of Japan, a director of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, and a
member of the Science Council of Japan. His latest book is called “Theory of JIZAI Body”
(Springer, 2023).