Mikael Jorda
Chief Executive Officer at Jorda Tech
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Jorda is a robotics-focused CEO and founder with a decade of experience building and leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across surgical, underwater, and home robotics. Trained at École Polytechnique and Stanford (PhD in Mechatronics), he blends deep theoretical knowledge in manipulation and control with hands-on systems engineering and teleoperation expertise from roles at Johnson & Johnson and Stanford. As founder of Jorda Tech and now CEO of FisicAI, he turns complex research problems into deployable robotic solutions while maintaining close ties to academia through teaching and collaborative projects. Comfortable across mechanical, electrical and software domains, he is known for tackling real-world, high-impact challenges—often bringing uncommon experimental rigor from his background in acoustics and materials to robotic system design. In his spare time he balances technical curiosity with creative pursuits like music and baking, reflecting a practical but inventive approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, Physics, Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, Physics at École PolytechniqueDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Stanford University
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
robot-control9
manifold9
urdf8
driver8
statistics8
geometry8
dynamics7
gpu-programming7
ros7
code-generation6
machine-learning6
simulation6
robotics6
motion-planning5
casadi5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
manips-sai-org/optoforceSensor
Jun 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
manips-sai-org/OpenSai
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 28 PRs, 32 pushes in 11 months
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