Yukio Takeda is a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and also serves as the Director of the Industry-University Cooperation Office in School of Engineering at Tokyo Tech. He joined Tokyo Tech in 1989 as a research assistant. He received his Doctoral Degree in Engineering from Tokyo Tech in 1995 and became an Associate Professor in 1996. He was a Visiting Scholar at Technical University of Munich, Germany, and University of Florida, USA in 2000. He has previously served as the Program Officer at Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology from 2002 to 2004. He has been a full professor of Mechanical Engineering Department as a chair of Mechanical Systems Design Laboratory since 2012. He serves the chairman of the technical committee for Robotics and Mechatronics, IFToMM since 2017. He also serves several associate editors of scientific journals such as Mechanism and Machine Theory, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems and J. of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing.