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Fumihiro Honda has dedicated his career to advancing automation in heavy manufacturing, with a primary focus on welding robotics and digital twin technologies for shipbuilding and large-scale construction. His pioneering work on teachingless robot systems and off-line programming using two-dimensional CAD has fundamentally transformed how complex welding tasks are planned and executed. In his landmark 2000 paper on a panel welding robot system for shipbuilding subassembly, he demonstrated how numerical control and CAD integration could eliminate manual teaching, achieving 7 citations that established foundational methods still referenced today. His 2001 follow-up extended this approach to large box-type constructions, proving the scalability of teachingless welding for industrial applications. Most recently, Honda has tackled the critical challenge of positioning error compensation between digital models and physical machinery, developing a Delaunay triangulation-based method published in 2023. This work addresses a persistent bottleneck in manufacturing digital twins—the accuracy gap between simulation and reality—with applications to large forming machines. Across his career, Honda has been instrumental in bridging the gap between CAD-based planning and real-world robotic execution, making heavy industrial automation more efficient, precise, and adaptable.