Looking for Challenges

I studied a Master of Automatic and Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Seville. During the last years of my studies, I was a trainee in the robotics research lab (GRVC) at the University of Seville. Later on, after finishing my studies, I was hired by them and worked as R&D engineer there for few more years.

Later on, I moved to Austria to work as a mechanical design engineer for an aeronautical company (FACC). The job was challenging and very interesting: designing mechanisms and furniture for business jets. I was recognised as an outstanding mechanical designer (in less than one year I was a design reference at my department), but after little more than one year I decided to move to Japan, that was my dream since I was a child.

I worked for a wearables start-up in Tokyo (16Lab) as Vice-President of Engineering. The company was developing a smart ring and my task was creating methods and algorithms for defining the interactions with the ring. I signed 5 patents during those two years (available in the Projects & Designs section of this website). We won the Innovation Award at CEATEC Japan 2015 (Home Entertainment category).

Once the product was fully developed, as the company was focusing on marketing and fundraising stages, I resigned my position at 16Lab to develop an inspection robot by myself. I went back to Spain and tried to patent it, but I failed. Then I decided to join Iwate University, where I was able to continue developing my designs in parallel to my research project, that was a forestry robot. Thew forestry robot was a success and I improved my designs and applied for two new patents (currently under development).

A few years later Kim sensei started a new company in Korea and his laboratory at Iwate University closed. I decided to stay in Iwate where, with my wife, we teach robotics to children and keep developing my designs.