Satoshi Kitano, PhD

VP of Mechanical Engineering @ GITAI

About

Robot engineer who is passionate about creating robots that have never been seen before.

Country

United States

City

Gardena

Industry

Defense & Space

Skill

English, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Product Development, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 3D Modeling, Project Management, Robotics, Engineering Management, Systems Design, Product Design, PTC Creo, SOLIDWORKS, Spacecraft, Python (Programming Language), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Arduino

Experience

VP of Mechanical Engineering

GITAI

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Torrance, CA

VP of Hardware Engineering

GITAI

2021-12 - 2022-12 · 1 yr 1 mo

Tokyo, Japan

- VP of Hardware Engineering for all projects and R&D. - Technical Lead and concepts for various types of robots. - Served as a lead system engineer of GHOST company's first extravehicular robotic experiment.

Mechanical Engineer

GITAI

2021-1 - 2021-11 · 11 mos

Tokyo, Japan

- Mechanical engineer for space-rated robotic arm - Designed and evaluated space-rated motor unit GM2. - Designed space-rated 7 DoF robotic arm S2 and confirmed its performance through a series of experiments including a space chamber at JAXA.

Executive Officer In-Pipe Solution

hibot

2019-11 - 2021-1 · 1 yr 3 mos

Tokyo, Japan

- Executive officer in-Pipe Solution, focusing on the success of RaaS in pipe inspection service. - Led the development of a robotic pipe inspection system named SQUID. - Contributed to getting Capital and Business Agreements with EBARA group through successful series of PoC projects.

Mechanical Engineer

hibot

2016 - 2019-10 · 3 yrs

Tokyo, Japan

- Mechanical Engineer for the inspection robots and various R&D projects - Designed a pipe inspection robot with unique pneumatic actuator as a company's latest product - Designed a generator inspection robot for GE which makes it possible to inspect whole generator with minimum disassembling.

Research Assistant

Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.

2012-10 - 2016-3 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Tokyo, Japan

- Research Assistant under Ken Endo, helping the development of robotic orthoses. - Designed an attachable rehabilitation assistant device for conventional rehabilitation orthoses named Raplus. - Ralpus got the global top 20 shortlist of the James Dyson Award.