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![ ](./photos/asada.png width="210px" align=left) [Minoru Asada](http://www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/asadalab/?lang=en) received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1977, 1979, and 1982, respectively. In April 1995, he became a professor at Osaka University. He was a professor in the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University from April 1997 to March 2019. Since then, he has been a specially-appointed professor, Symbiotic Intelligent System Research Center, Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University. From April 2021, he became a vice president of International Professional University of Technology in Osaka. Dr. Asada has received many awards, such as the Best Paper award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS92) and a Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government, as a Person of Distinguished Services to Enlightening People on Science and Technology. He is one of the founders of the RoboCup, and the former president of the International RoboCup Federation (2002-2008). He was a president for the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ, 2019-2021). IEEE Life Fellow since 2021. He was the Research Director of the ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project at Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (ERATO, 2005-2011), and was a principal investigator of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Research Project Numbers:24000012, 2012-2016) titled Constructive Developmental Science based on Understanding the Process from Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. He was a principal investigator of the JST RISTEX R&D Project titled Legal Beings: Electric personhoods of artificial intelligence and robots in NAJIMI society, based on a reconsideration of the concept of autonomy. **Title:** Round table discussion.