Takashi Ogura
Founder CEO at Synchrobo, Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTakashi Ogura is a robotics founder and CEO with 14 years of hands-on experience building humanoid and assistive robots across Toyota, SCHAFT, and Google. He holds a PhD from The University of Tokyo and led software development for Toyota’s Human Support Robot before moving into research and senior roboticist roles at Google. Since 2019 he has spun that expertise into startups—founding Smile Robotics and now Synchrobo—combining deep-mechatronics know-how with product and business leadership. His background spans academic research (JSPS-funded work on life-size humanoids) to shipping commercial robotics systems, giving him rare end-to-end insight from control and perception algorithms to deployable robot products. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he brings a pragmatic entrepreneurial streak informed by high-impact research and large-scale engineering at top global labs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Github Skills (152)
kinematics10
windows10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
ros10
sdf10
rust-lang10
client-library10
robotics10
intel10
vscode-plugin10
inverse-kinematics10
linux10
camera10
sdk10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openrr/urdf-viz
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
visualize URDF/XACRO file, URDF Viewer works on Windows/MacOS/Linux
Contributions:31 releases, 192 reviews, 209 commits in 5 years
inverse-kinematicsroboticswindowsrustvisualize
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