Toki Migimatsu
Robot Manipulation Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToki Migimatsu is a robot manipulation engineer with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and production robotics, currently developing manipulation systems at Figure in Palo Alto. He holds a PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Science from Stanford and spent his doctoral years advancing interactive perception and robot learning as a Stanford lab researcher and course assistant. Toki’s background spans haptic fMRI experiments, musculoskeletal modeling, operational-space controllers, and practical SLAM and perception work from internships at Muratec, Autodesk, and Dexterity, illustrating a rare blend of neuroscience-informed control and field-ready software. He also completed an AI residency at Intrinsic, signaling strength in applied ML for robotics, and has a track record of turning complex experimental setups into reproducible systems. Notably, his work ties brain-inspired insight to real-world manipulation challenges, aiming to make robots genuinely useful in daily environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Branson SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
pddl10
cpp8
python8
robot8
dynamics8
robot-control7
robotics7
manipulation5
geometry5
deep-learning3
computer-vision3
usb1
usb-hid1
hid1
bluetooth-hid1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tmigimatsu/ctrl-utils
Jan 2019 - Aug 2023
Utilities for Robot Control
Contributions:5 releases, 3 PRs, 180 pushes in 4 years 7 months
roboticsrobotrobot-control
tmigimatsu/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:45 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
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