Summary
Issei Takino is the founder and Representative Director of MUJIN Inc., bringing 13 years of experience at the intersection of manufacturing and automation. He parlayed frontline experience on factory floors across Japan, Korea, and China and an award-winning sales/product management tenure at precision-tool leader Iscar into a mission to reinvent industrial robotics and warehouse automation. Grounded in liberal arts study with international exposure in China and the U.S., he combines customer-facing commercial instincts with deep domain understanding of manufacturing workflows. Known for tackling the “billion-dollar” challenge of widespread automation adoption, he directs strategy that tightly aligns product development with real-world operational constraints. An operator-turned-founder, he blends practical empathy for shop-floor teams with a founder’s appetite for scaling complex hardware-software systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Soka University of America
Chinese Studies, Chinese Studies at Shanghai University
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Japanese