Entrepreneur, AI & Robotics engineer in San Francisco.
Started Fellow AI (FKA Fellow Robots) at a small lab at NASA Research Park with co founders NASA Astronaut Dan Barry, Tasha McCauley, and others.
I help and sit on advisory boards for some startups and occasionally invest in some.
- I've created a few robots: OSHbot, NAVii, and LoweBot (Lowe's Robot), the first fully autonomous customer service and inventory management robots. - Deployed with multiple Fortune 500 Co's, Lowe's, Toyota, Sam's (Walmart), Johnson & Johnson, Yahoo!, BevMo, & others.
- Raised over $8,400,000 from multiple Silicon Valley investors, Tencent and one of the world largest OEMs.
- Named by Forbes as a the 30 under 30 and by MIT as Innovator under 35 (MIT TR35).
- Created an open source COVID-19 ventilator. The project went viral and has been helping over 200 teams around the world. More info below. Here's the story covered by the BBC.
- Some of that work has been featured in WSJ, New York Times, Bloomberg, IEEE, Discovery Channel, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Nikkei, and others (see below). - I led the Innovation Lab and was a former Robotics & AI faculty of Singularity University at NASA Research Park. - Joined BMW Research & Innovation Center in Munich to engineer concept cars. Some of my designs come in the 2014 production car series.
- I built an autonomous Robot for nuclear exploration due to the Fukushima Accident, and an autonomous wheelchair robot for disabled people at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan.
- I started programming and building robots at age 11 in Assembler. In undergrad, I loved STEM and led my to have the best grades in Physics, Electronics, Math and programming. I graduated as second best GPA with Cum Laude honors.
- I've authored of multiple patents on Robotics, Computer Vision, AI, sensors, and automation. More than 8 of patents can be found here.
Originally when we started Fellow Robots, we developed multiple versions of telepresence robots.
Autonomous wheelchair
KuruRobo Developed an autonomous wheelchair robot for disabled people while I was doing Computer Vision research at the Kanazawa Institute of Japan.
Nuclear Exploration Robot
Nuclear Exploration Robot Autonomous humanoid exploration robot in Japan due to the Fukushima accident. IREX 2011
Exploration Rover
Exploration Rover Developed an exploration rover for search and rescue in nataral distasters. Project was developed at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Kanzawa Institute of Technology - AI and Robotics Lab