Her research focuses on the history of technology in Japan, and she teaches broadly about the history of science and technology in East Asia. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and spent a year on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In the course of her research in Japan Yulia Frumer was affiliated with the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) and Tokyo University, and held fellowships from the Japanese Government (Monbukagaskusho) and the Japan Foundation. Her first book manuscript, titled “A Matter of Time: Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan,” is currently under review with the University of Chicago Press. In her current project she focuses on the history of humanoid robots in Japan.