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Legendary PlayStation inventor Ken Kutaragi is beginning a career in robotics and he’s doing it pro bono. The renowned “Father of PlayStation”, Kutaragi, 70, played a chief role in the invention of the Sony game console in 1994 and the PlayStation 2 in 2000. Kutaragi, is the new chief executive officer of a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup, Ascent Robotics. Kutaragi hopes to create inexpensive robots that can safely move around and do physical work alongside humans in factories and logistics centers and is aiming to develop a functional prototype within a year.