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Kosuke Wada is a pioneering researcher in the fields of robotics, telexistence, and human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on scale conversion and remote operation systems. His most cited work, "Wireless radio communication system for a pipe inspection robot" (2007, 15 citations), established foundational methods for stable, high-speed wireless control of inspection robots navigating steel and ceramic pipes, demonstrating practical applications in infrastructure maintenance. Wada’s more recent contributions address a fundamental challenge in telexistence: how to effectively transmit human motion skills to robots of different scales. In his 2018 papers, he introduced the "Equivalent Physical Constant Hypothesis," proposing that inconsistencies in motion between operators and scaled robots arise from differing apparent physical constants. This theoretical framework, though with fewer citations, represents a novel approach to skill transmission and posture alignment in telexistence systems. Wada’s work bridges engineering and cognitive science, offering insights that could enhance teleoperated robotics for surgery, disaster response, and remote exploration. His research continues to influence the development of intuitive, scalable human-robot interfaces.