The delegation of social workers from Cambodia, Mongolia, Laos and Thailand visited NAIST (October 4, 2011)

The delegation of social workers from Cambodia, Mongolia, Laos and Thailand visited NAIST as part of a training program sponsored by the Foundation for the Welfare and Education of the Asian People on October 4th. Since 1978, the Foundation has run this training program which is a study visit of Japan for the people involving in projects for orphans or single-parent families in Asian countries in order to deepen mutual understanding of each country's welfare system.

They were welcomed by President Isogai, who greeted them with a speech. Executive Director Shinmyo introduced NAIST briefly.

Afterwards, the members of the Robotics Laboratory introduced and demonstrated aspects of their research which could be applied to social welfare: an assistant device with Pneumatic Rubber Artificial Muscles and Actroid, a humanoid which can be controlled by using both face direction and gaze direction.