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General Information

Full Name Hayato Kojima
Date of Birth 21th April 2001
Languages English, Japanese

Education

  • 2024 - current
    Master of Science in Engineering
    Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Second year of JEMARO - Japan Europe Master on Advanced Robotics(double degree program between Keio University, Warsaw University of Technology, Genova University, and Centrale Nantes).
    • Seiichiro Katsura Laboratory.
    • Researching on animal-inspired robots, especially bird-inspired bipedal robots.
  • 2024 - current
    Master in Control and Robotics - Advanced Robotics
    Centrale Nantes, Nantes, France
    • First year of JEMARO - Japan Europe Master on Advanced Robotics(double degree program between Keio University, Warsaw University of Technology, Genova University, and Centrale Nantes).
    • ReV(Robotics and Living) researching team in LS2N laboratory.
    • Researching on animal-inspired robots, especially bird-inspired bipedal robots.
    • Activities and societies
      • A member of the ECN robot club. I was in the localization and implementation team, and participated in Eurobot 2025.
      • NEURA robotics challenge (humanid 4ne-1 implementation challenge). I am in the simulation team using Isaac Sim connected with ROS2. Our team achieved making the demonstration of pouring water from the bottle to the cup using AI decision-making and task-planning.
  • 2021-2024
    Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechatronics
    Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
    • Graduated with the bachelor thesis project called "RGBD Semantic Segmentation for Robotic Manipulation" using ROS, TensorFlow, OpenCV, and Keras.
    • Activities and societies
      • A member of Humanoid Sciences Club(English team).
      • Joined Brainhack Warsaw 2022 and made a project "Talking with Machine Learning models using chatbots" as a team.

Working Experience

  • June - August,
    2024
    Robotics Engineer(Internship)
    Tsukarm Robotics, Tokyo, Japan
    • Developed a ROS1 and ROS2 simulation environment and ROS packages for dual-arm robots.
    • Developed pick and place simulation demo using ROS2 and Movieit2.
  • April - May,
    2024
    Hardware Engineer(Internship)
    GRIPS Inc., Tokyo, Japan
    • Designed the end effector for the robot competition in IEEE ICRA2024(International Conference on Robotics and Automation) to achieve serving bowl meal.
  • July - August,
    2023
    Assistant Robotics Engineer(Internship)
    TechShare Inc., Tokyo, Japan
    • Designed a casing for the computer of the robot using Fusion360 and tested with CAE.
    • Tested 6 DOF manipulator using ROS.
    • Migrated the robot software from ROS1 to ROS2.
    • Made the demo for the RFID sensor with mobile robot.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Consortium scholarships by JEMARO(Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics)
  • 2022
    • Rector's scholarship by Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology

Academic Interests

  • Robotics
    • Animal inspired robot
    • Humanoid robot
    • Bipedal robot
    • Mobile robot
    • Service robot
    • Entertainment robot