Tokyo – It consolidates the collaboration between Italy and Japan to develop new joint advanced robotics projects, humanoid in particular, and to promote the exchange of professors and researchers. In Tokyo it has signed a new agreement between BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa and the Waseda University, one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. This synergy, began some time ago, aims to create new opportunities in research and in overseas training of PhD students of the two institutions. Paolo Dario and Atsuo Takanishi, Director of BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and representative of “The Humanoid Robotics Institute and the Comprehensive Research Organization” Waseda University, have renewed their partnership, opening a new chapter in the relationship between two training and research bodies. (9colonne)