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Tetsuji Yoshida is a pioneering Japanese roboticist whose career spans decades of transformative work across construction automation, space robotics, and wearable robotic systems. Beginning as early as 1984 with the development of a spray robot for fireproof cover work, Yoshida became one of the foundational figures in construction robotics, contributing seminal research on site automation and prototype construction robots throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His most-cited works, including "Automation in Construction" (1990, 26 citations) and the influential "Skil Mate" wearable exoskeleton (2003, 26 citations), demonstrate a career-long commitment to augmenting human workers with intelligent robotic systems. His reach extended beyond Earth's surface: Yoshida contributed to teleoperation experiments aboard the Engineering Test Satellite 7 and explored reconfigurable brachiating space robots, establishing foundational technologies for on-orbit assembly. Later work on flexible space robot modeling, cooperative human-robot interaction for welfare applications, and a retrospective history of construction robotics in Japan underscore his breadth and longevity. Yoshida's body of work helped shape an entire industry, making him a key figure in applied robotics research internationally.