Toshihiko Fukushima is a Ph.D. student in the Robotic Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He has backgrounds in robotics and automotive areas. His current fields of interest are bio-inspired robotics, dynamic locomotion, and soft robotics.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Toyota Technological Institute in 2012 and his Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from The University of Tokyo in 2014. After that, he worked as an automotive engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motorsport GmbH, and NTN Walzlager (Europa) GmbH.