Professor Koji Ikuta received his first B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, and his second B.S. and M.S. in Biophysical Engineering in 1977, 1979 and 1981 respectively from Osaka University. He received a PhD in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. He joined the Center for Robotics Systems in Microelectronics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987. He was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo and an associate professor at Kyusyu Institute of Technology. He moved to Nagoya University of Tokyo to upgrade his research from 2010. He is holding joint appointment of Osaka University as an outstanding professor to organize research of biomedical MEMS for next generation. He has organized EEE MEMS’ 94 as a General Chair and the steering committee of MEMS from 1992. He was awarded more than 40 academic prizes for his outstanding research in biomedical micro machines (Bio-MEMS) and medical robotics from government and academic societies such as the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and several foundations. Outstanding Researcher Prize from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, The Achievement award from American Association on Laboratory Automation and Best paper award from Japan Society of Robots, etc. He received a Purple Medal from Japanese Emperor in 2010. Recently he serves an international advisory board of Science Robotics.