[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.

The RRT-Connect algorithm has become a key standard benchmark for sampling-based exploration of high-dimensional search spaces for robot motion planning.

[5] From 1999 until 2001, Kuffner was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo developing software and planning algorithms for humanoid robots.

[11][12] In Jan 2016, Dr. Kuffner joined the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) where he was appointed the Chief Technology Officer and Area Lead, Cloud Intelligence.

[15] TRI-AD is headquartered in Tokyo, and is reported to ultimately employ over 1,000 engineers for the development of software for automated driving and artificial intelligence.