Fellows Profile

Received Sylff fellowship in 2016–17.

Yutaka Tokushima is the chief executive officer of Instalimb. He worked as a fabrication designer for Nihon Kohden Corp. before starting up Instalimb to commercialize a process for fabricating prosthetic legs from plastic using 3D printers and machine learning. Although machine learning has previously been used in the fabrication of individual parts for prosthetic limbs, Tokushima’s system is the only digital process for fabricating an entire prosthetic leg from plastic.