Founder Sun Xiaojun, himself a prosthetic leg user, started BionicM in December 2018 based on his engineering experience at Sony and doctoral research at Masayuki Inaba's Lab at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, which is renowned for its robotics research. For three years prior to the incorporation, Sun and UTEC conducted R&D through the START Program by JST (the Japan Science and Technology Agency).

Based on his advanced research in humanoid robotics at The University of Tokyo, BionicM’s founder Sun, Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, created a highly efficient powered bionic prosthetic.

As a lead investor since the seed stage, UTEC supports BionicM in its team building, business development, fundraising and governance.