Toshihiko Fukushima

Toshihiko Fukushima

Senior Researcher

Omron SINIC X Corporation

Biography

Toshihiko Fukushima (福島 俊彦 in Japanese 🇯🇵) is a senior researcher at the OMRON SINIC X Corporation. He has a background in robotics and automotive engineering. His current areas of interest are bio-inspired robotics, dynamic locomotion, and soft robotics.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Toyota Technological Institute in 2012 and his Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from The University of Tokyo in 2014. He then worked as an automotive engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motorsport GmbH, and NTN Walzlager (Europa) GmbH. Then, he started his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) and received his PhD from University of Stuttgart in 2026.

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Interests

  • Robotics
  • Embodied Intelligence
  • Biomimetics

Education

  • PhD - Engineering, 2026University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • MAS - Informatics, 2014The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • BE - Engineering, 2012Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

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