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Taishi Miyazaki is a pioneering researcher in socially assistive robotics, with a focused mission to bridge the digital and generational divide for elderly populations. His core work centers on developing **Social Media Agency Robots**—humanoid platforms that empower seniors to engage with younger generations through existing social networking services (SNS) and cloud-based systems. Miyazaki’s major contribution is the creation of an interactive, bidirectional communication framework that transforms passive elderly monitoring into active social participation. His most cited paper (2018, 14 citations) introduces a robot that acts as an intermediary on social media, while his 2017 work (10 citations) refines this concept using external cloud services for seamless operation. Notably, he extended this technology into healthcare with a **Dementia Diagnosis System** (2018, 6 citations), which automates the Hasegawa Dementia Rating Scale through natural conversation, enabling early cognitive screening. By embedding these systems in affordable single-board computers and cloud platforms, Miyazaki has made scalable, practical tools that address loneliness and cognitive decline. His research, though early in citation impact, lays a vital foundation for human-robot interaction in gerontechnology, directly tackling the challenges of an aging society.