James J. Kuffner Jr.

James Kuffner
James Kuffner speaking at CES in January 2018.
Born
James Joseph Kuffner Jr.

1971
United States
Alma materStanford
Known forRRT
OpenRAVE
Cloud Robotics
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
InstitutionsCMU
Google
Toyota
Doctoral advisorJean-Claude Latombe

James J. Kuffner Jr. (born 1971) is an American roboticist and chief executive officer (CEO) of Woven by Toyota. [1] Dr. Kuffner is also Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Toyota Motor Corporation.[2] Kuffner continues to serve as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and as Executive Advisor to Woven by Toyota.[3] Kuffner earned a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Dept. of Computer Science Robotics Laboratory in 1999.

  1. ^ Mitchell, Russ (March 2, 2018). "Robot cars won't wait: Toyota creates new company to speed development". The Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Toyota Motor Corporation (December 04, 2020). "TMC Announces Board Member, Executive, Organizational, and Personnel Changes". Retrieved 14 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Google loses robotics chief to Toyota's $1B research lab".