Toshio Fukuda (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1971, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. From 1977 to 1982, he was with the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. From 1982 to 1989, he was with the Science University of Tokyo. He was Professor at the Department of Micro System Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, from 1989 to 2013. He is currently Professor at Meijo University, Nagoya, and Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, mainly involved in the research fields of intelligent robotic systems, cellular robotic systems, mechatronics, and micro/nanorobotics.