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Ken founded MIRA, a IoT device development company, and has experience developing and mass-producing various connected devices. He specializes in software and robot engineering.

Tohru is a design engineer who excels in the design and mechanisms of robots, wearables, smart toys, gadgets, and various other products. He has received the GOOD DESIGN AWARD.

Tomonori is a full stack engineer with capabilities ranging from programming for integration of cloud and smartphone apps to electronic circuit design. He excels in C, C++, and image processing.

Akihiro is an electrical engineer who excels in digital and analog circuits and high-frequency circuit design. He previously worked at Cypress Semiconductor, a major semiconductor manufacturer in the US.

Ryusuke is a researcher with optical calculation experience in various fields ranging from outer space to art. He has experience developing algorithms in the fields of image recognition and statistics. He is a Doctor of Science (Physics).

Hiroki founded Monstar Lab in 2006 with the mission of creating mechanisms that utilize diversity after gaining experience at a US-based consulting firm and a web technology venture. In addition to running global sourcing businesses, in which planning, development, localization, marketing, and other operations of digital products are conducted in optimal locations around the world, in 21 cities in 12 countries (as of March 2018), he manages Monstar Channel, a background music service for mobile, VR, and AR game planners, developers, and stores, RPA (Robotics Process Automation), and other businesses. He graduated in 1998 from the Department of Mathematics at the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University and received his MBA from Bond University in Australia in 2006.

Hisashi accomplished credits for the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Science and Engineering Doctoral Course in Mechanical and Control Engineering in 2003. In the same year, he was hired at the National Defense Academy Department of Computer Science, and after serving as a research associate and lecturer, he took his current position in 2015. He spent 1 year at the California Institute of Technology in the US as a visiting researcher in 2005. He is a member of the IEEE, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers. He conducts research related to robotic control, such as control of nonlinear systems and autonomous locomotion. He has been awarded with the 2009 Robotics Society of Japan Young Investigation Excellence Award, the 2014 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Medal for Outstanding Paper, and the Tsukuba City Mayor Award 6 times in the Tsukuba Challenge, which is a challenge for autonomous locomotion robot technology. In addition, he has provided technical support for autonomization of the T-iROBO Slab Finisher by Taisei Corporation and has experience in technical support and joint research with companies.