Nikkei Business Publishing (Nikkei BP) has launched Nikkei Robotics, a magazine focused on robotics and covering new technologies, events and conferences, regulation updates, community, interviews and the hidden stories behind projects.

Nikkei Robotics FrontDesign

Issue sizes are initially limited to 30 pages each month and the magazine has an annual subscription of JPY 48,600 (including tax).

Mr. Yasuo Tanokura is  its first chief editor. Before joining Nikkei Robotics, he was deputy editor of Nikkei Business Magazine and chief editor of Nikkei Electronics Magazine. The editorial team is from Nikkei BP team and six acknowledged professional contributors have been appointed, including Dr. Takeo Kanade, (Prof. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) and Dr. Testuya Iwasaki (Prof. UCLA).

Magazine page (Japanese): http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/ROBO/?xadid=6069

Thanks to our Tokyo PR partner, Hitoshi Kasai of Miacis for this information.