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Kazuo Yamazaki is a robotics and automation engineer whose career spans foundational work in both industrial machine control and applied mobile robotics for infrastructure maintenance. His most influential contribution is the development of the Tethered Mobile Robot (TMR) concept, a pioneering robotic system designed to automate highway maintenance operations — work that has garnered 27 citations and remains a landmark in field robotics. Introduced conceptually in 1994 and expanded upon in 1997, the TMR features a differentially steered, wheeled mobile platform tethered to a support vehicle, addressing the demanding operational requirements of real-world road maintenance environments. Beyond mobile robotics, Yamazaki made early contributions to flexible servo and actuator control systems for advanced machine tools and robots, including notable work on a silicon-compiled one-chip flexible servo controller — demonstrating a rare breadth across embedded control hardware and autonomous systems. With a research trajectory beginning in the late 1980s, Yamazaki's work reflects a consistent commitment to translating sophisticated control theory into practical, deployable automation solutions, making his contributions particularly valuable for engineers and researchers working at the intersection of robotics, control systems, and infrastructure technology.