Obituary: Hidesaburo Hanafusa 1929–2009

Hidesaburo Hanafusa 1929–2009

With his passing, the scientific community lost a giant whose monumental achievements were matched only by his dignity, humility, honesty, and generosity to collaborators and competitors alike. Scores of former trainees lost a beloved mentor, colleague, and friend, and his family lost a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. During a career that spanned six decades, two centuries , three con...

Hanafusa and Hirochika Inoue

The conflict in designing a robot which is fast for large motions and small motions as well as accurate can be alleviated by strategies of operation such as the one described in this paper, called the bracing strategy. Large motions are assigned to joints which move the major links. When these motions are completed the arm is "braced" against the workpiece or a passive workbench. The small moti...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...