Educations

• Ph.D. candidate
  Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany, 2021-2024,
  Robotic Materials Dept. | Prof. Christoph Keplinger

• M.A.S. in Information Studies,
  The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2014,
  Intelligent Systems and Informatics Lab. | Prof. Yasuo Kuniyoshi

• B.E.
  Toyota Technological Institute, Japan, 2012,
  Control System Lab. | Prof. Tatsuo Narikiyo

Working experiences

• Doctoral Researcher (2021 - present)
  Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
  Research soft robotics with HASEL type actuators

• Research Engineer (2020 - 2021)
  Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
  Research morphological intelligence of animals with robotic experiments

• Application Engineer (2019 - 2021)
  NTN Wälzlager Europa GmbH, Germany
  Develop bearing systems for automotive systems

• Control System Engineer (2017 - 2018)
  Toyota Motorsport GmbH, Germany
  Develop an active suspension system

• Chassis Control Engineer (2014 - 2018)
  Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
  Develop steering by-wire systems, power steering systems, compact EV

• Technical Assistant (2012 - 2013)
  The University of Tokyo, Japan
  Maintain servers and websites

• Student intern (2011 - 2011)
  Toyota Boshoku Corporation
  Develop an EV charging system

Honors

• Young Investigation Excellence Award, RSJ, 2014

• Scholarship for Students with Outstanding Achievements, JASSO, 2014

• Student Travel Grant, AMAM, 2013

• Presentation Award, SICE SI, 2012

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Journals

• 2024 | Nature Communications,
  T. J. K. Buchner^*, T. Fukushima^*, A. Kazemipour, S. Gravert, M. Prairie, P. Romanescu, P. Arm, Y. Zhang, X. Wang, S. L. Zhang, J. Walter, C. Keplinger, R. K. Katzschmann, "Electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotic leg for agile, adaptive, yet energy-efficient locomotion" (DOI, video1, video2, press release)
  *Co-first authorship​

• 2022 | Sports Biomechanics,
  T. Fukushima, Satoshi Nishikawa, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Active Pole Bending Effect in Pole Support Phase” (DOI, video)

• 2021 | Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 589–602
  T. Fukushima, R. Siddall, F. Schwab, S. L. D. Toussaint, G. Byrnes, J. A. Nyakatura and A. Jusufi, “Inertial tail effects during righting of squirrels in unexpected falls: from behavior to robotics” (DOI, video)

• 2021 | Advanced Robotics, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 437–449
  R. Siddall, T. Fukushima, D. Bardhi, B. Perteshoni, A. Morina, E. Hasimja, Y. Dujaka, G. Haziri, L. Martin, H. Banerjee and A. Jusufi, “Compliance, mass distribution and contact forces in cursorial and scansorial locomotion with biorobotic physical models” (DOI, video)

• 2021 | Advanced Intelligent Systems
  Y. Lin, R. Siddall, F. Schwab, T. Fukushima, H. Banerjee, Y. Baek, D. Vogt, Y. Park and A. Jusufi, “Modeling and control of a soft robotic fish with controllable stiffness and integrated soft sensing” (DOI, video)

• 2014 | Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 51–57
  T. Fukushima, K. Hyodo, M. Kawanishi and T. Narikiyo, “Gait stabilization of passive dynamic walking by foot shape optimization”  (DOI)

• 2014 | Advanced Robotics, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 487–496
  S. Nishikawa, K. Tanaka, K. Shida, T. Fukushima, R. Niiyama and Y. Kuniyoshi, “A musculoskeletal bipedal robot designed with angle-dependent moment arm for dynamic motion from multiple states” (DOI)

Conferences

• 2021 | SICB
  T. Fukushima, R. Siddall, G. Byrnes, J. Nyakatura, S. L. D. Toussaint and A. Jusufi, “Self-righting in squirrels during unexpected falls – towards the crucial function of bushy tails in arboreal mammals” (DOI)

• 2015 | Humanoids
  S. Nishikawa, T. Kobayashi, T. Fukushima and Y. Kuniyoshi, “Pole vaulting robot with dual articulated arms that can change reaching position using active bending motion”  (DOI)

• 2014 | ICRA
  T. Fukushima, S. Nishikawa and Y. Kuniyoshi, “Active bending motion of pole vault robot to improve reachable height” (DOI)

• 2013 | ICAR
  S. Nishikawa, T. Fukushima and Y. Kuniyoshi, “Effective timing of swing-up motion by a pole-vaulting robot” (DOI)

• 2013 | AMAM
  T. Fukushima, S. Nishikawa, K. Tanaka and Y. Kuniyoshi, “Transitional buckling model for active bending effect in pole vault”

• other 7 domestic conference papers (in Japanese)

Thesis

• 2014 | Master’s thesis, The University of Tokyo (in Japanese)
  “Active bending motion of pole vault robot to improve vaulting height”

• 2012 | Bachelor’s thesis, Toyota Technological Institute (in Japanese)
  “Gait stabilization of passive dynamic walker by foot shape optimization”

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