Felix Von Drigalski
Global CTO at Mujin
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Von Drigalski is a robotics-focused technology leader and Global CTO with 11 years of experience building industrial automation and manipulation systems from research to product. With a Ph.D. in Robotics and a background spanning Japanese and European institutes and companies, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering leadership at Mujin. He contributes actively to the MoveIt open-source ecosystem—improving motion-planning robustness and documentation—to make complex pick-and-place workflows more reliable and user-friendly. Previously he led product and systems engineering, researched near-future factory automation, and even translated technical content at scale, giving him a rare mix of technical, communication, and cross-cultural skills. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he is known for smoothing the edge cases in robot behavior (e.g., grasp timing and collision handling) that make automation work in real-world settings.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics at Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyDiploma, Mechanical Engineering, 1,4, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, 1,4 at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / University of KarlsruheVordiplom, Maschinenbau, 2,1, Vordiplom, Maschinenbau, 2,1 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Génie mécanique, Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Génie mécanique at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon / INSA Lyon
English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
collision-detection10
moveit10
robotics10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
motion-planning10
ros10
documentation10
python9
debugging8
sphinx8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
moveit/moveit_tutorials
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
A sphinx-based centralized documentation repo for MoveIt
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Robotics Developer
Technical Writer & Robotics DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 10 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributes to the documentation of the MoveIt tutorials repository, adding and updating tutorials to explain MoveIt's capabilities. They fixed a typo in the pick and place tutorial and made the robot movements smoother by adjusting grasp closure times. They also added a new tutorial about subframes and expanded an existing one. They also improved the tutorial by adding notes on scaling factors, cartesian execution, and joint sliders.
moveit
moveit/moveit
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
:robot: The MoveIt motion planning framework
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:162 reviews, 28 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the MoveIt motion planning framework, focusing on improving the robustness and usability of pick and place routines. Their work involved adding informative debug and info messages to guide users in troubleshooting issues. The user also made code improvements by making id arguments more verbose and cleaning up methods related to collision objects.
motion-planningmoveit
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