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Yoshihiro Nakabo

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Yoshihiro Nakabo is the team leader of the Dependable Systems Research Team at the Industrial CPS Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan.
He holds a PhD in Engineering (Tokyo Univ., JP).
His research covers service and industrial robot safety, safety sensors, and service robots such as nursing care robots, agricultural robots, delivery robots, and other robots. He is also involved in these standardization activities and is a convenor of ISO TC299 WG7 Management system for service robots and IEC TC125 WG6 General requirements for autonomous cargo e-transporters.
He is currently the project leader of the Project to Promote the Development of Robotic Devices for Nursing Care (Environmental Improvement) funded by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).

Rising life expectancy and ageing populations are a major challenge for our societies. A key issue is care for elderly people who are experiencing a loss of autonomy. While the contribution of technology in this field (especially robotics, artificial intelligence, and information and communication technology) is recognised as a solution, this contribution is also defined by certain limitations, now partly revealed by the COVID-19 crisis. Our hypothesis is that this is a structural problem related to the partial disconnect between social needs and technological solutions, itself tied to the dominant paradigm of innovation. Our project’s objective is to develop an alternative concept called care-driven innovation. Thanks to a multidisciplinary French- Japanese collaboration, we will thus analyse the policies and practices that put well-being at the centre of innovation.