Hiroshi Ishiguro

Okay, this guy built a robot that looks exactly like himself and then started sending it to give lectures in his place, and honestly I respect the audacity. Hiroshi Ishiguro is the Osaka University roboticist behind the Geminoid androids, and the first time I saw his work I genuinely couldn't tell which one was the real Hiroshi and which was the silicone copy with the famously stern face and all-black wardrobe. But the deeper trick is what gets me: he makes these eerily human machines not to creep us out but to ask the sneaky question "what actually makes us human?" from the other direction. There's something quietly thrilling about a man from a lakeside town in Shiga calmly walking us up to the edge of the future, never blinking. Less uncanny valley, more uncanny dare.

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Hiroshi Ishiguro (born October 23, 1963, in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan) is a roboticist and university professor at Osaka University. He is internationally known for his research into humanoid androids, including robots modeled closely on his own likeness, using them to explore fundamental questions about human perception and identity. His laboratory's work sits at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

Name (English)

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Name (Japanese)

石黒浩

Reading

いしぐろ ひろし

Born

October 23, 1963 (age 62)

Origin

Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Scientist / Roboticist / University Professor / Mechanical Engineer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

University

Osaka University

• Official sitehttps://eng.irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
• Xhttps://x.com/hiroshiishiguro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E9%BB%92%E6%B5%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382950

Tags

• From Shiga Prefecture
• Scientist
• Roboticist
• University Professor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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