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Artificial or machine intelligence is quit low compared with human intelligence. Most machines, which have no autonomy, are controlled by human so that they could work properly and effectively under a complicated environment. In such a situation, intelligent adaptive man-machine interface is the key technology in order to assist operator work and to decrease human error. I introduce some key technologies and some applications, e.g. a crane operation system, a medical system and an information assistance robot. I also discuss future technologies for an enhanced man-machine interface. Biography. Toshio Fukuda graduated from Waseda University in 1971. He studied at Yale University from 1973 to 1975. He received his Doctor degree from the University of Tokyo in 1977. During the same year he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. From 1979 to 1981 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart in West Germany. He worked for the Science University of Tokyo in 1981, and then joined the Nagoya University in 1989. He is presently Professor of the Center for Cooperative Research in Advanced Science and Technology at Nagoya University. He is mainly engaging in the research field of intelligent robotic systems and he is an author of six books, editing five books and has published over 1,000 technical papers in micro system, robotics, mechatronics and automation areas. He serves as Vice President of the International Fuzzy System Association since 1998. He was awarded IEEE Fellow, and SICE Fellow in 1995, both the city of Grenoble Medal and the Banki Donat Medal from the Polytechnic University of Budapest, Hungary in 1997. J. Liu et al. (Eds.): AMT 2001, LNCS 2252, p. 1, 2001. c © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Digital City: Bridging Technologies and Humans

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