About Us
Let’s get real
Realtime Robotics was founded with the goal of transforming how robots and autonomous vehicles move.
Realtime Robotics has continued to transform automation, with products that provide trailblazing features such as risk-aware driving, high-productivity multi-robot workcells and automated robot vision that continuously calibrates itself.
Accomplishments
Yaskawa Nordic and Realtime Robotics deliver advanced automated solutions to logistics customers.
Winter
Realtime Robotics partners with Siemens to accelerate the integration of industrial robotic workcells.
Spring
Realtime Robotics begins selling the first commercial RapidPlan and beta RapidSense to customers internationally.
Spring
Realtime Robotics officially hits 25 employees and celebrates by moving into its own office.
Late Fall
NSF Phase 1 and DARPA Phase II grants plus additional commercial contracts enable beta production and expansion of engineering and commercial teams.
Realtime Robotics also begins selling and testing RapidPlan with international customers and partners.
Spring
DARPA Phase 1 landed, team expands to five employees that collaborates to complete the first demo of our RapidPlan product with precursors to RapidSense.
Early Spring
Realtime Robotics meets with first investors James Kuffner and SPARX, initiating seed funding.
George and Peter celebrated Cali-style with burgers. Also, land their first commercial contract.
Summer
Mutual contacts introduce Peter to the team who is fascinated by the technology and within a month he onboards as the CEO.
Early Spring
The team presents at RSS conference, which puts the technology on the map with robotic technologists.
Summer
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Our team
Chidi Amala
Robotics Software Engineer
Mateus Amarante
Software Engineer
Cassandra Bivins
Controller
Igor Brandao
Software Engineer
Jeffrey Cadow
Principal Agile Coach
Deus Cayao
Applications Engineer
Tyler Chaulk
Engineering R&D Technician
Howie Chiang
Continuous Integration and Test Engineer
Matt Coady
VP, Engineering
Luca Colasanto
Senior Robotics Scientist
Pete Conti
Director, SQA
Molly Costa
Director, Fulfillment
Aaysuh Damani
Staff Level Product Manager
Steve Dias
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Kurt Dudek
Product Manager
Michael Ellison
Principal Software Engineer
Will Floyd-Jones
Founder and Robotics Engineer
Shun Gao
Director, Product Management
Kevin Ghozati
Director, Software Engineering
Lennart Gienger
Senior Software Engineer
Henrique Hideki Sampaio
UI/UX Designer
Mitz Hiratsuka
Senior Management Team Member
Iryna Hlushakova
Senior Director, Marketing
Peter Howard
President and CEO
Rafiq Iqbal
Director, European Business Development
Brian Jin
Robotics Engineer
Rebecca Jung
Validation Engineer
Ryan Kelly
Robotics Engineer
Vladyslav Khyzhniak
Software Engineer
Wolfgang Klauer
SQA Technician
Koji Kobayashi
VP, Commercial Business, Japan
George Konidaris
Founder and Chief Roboticist
Nathan Koontz
Director, Customer Success
Thomas Kugelman
Systems Software Engineer
Tae Kyu Kim
Intern, Software Engineer
Blues Li
Business Development Manager, Asia Pacific
Angelo Liquido
Senior Applications Engineer
Harrison Liu
SQA Engineer
Xianchao Long
Senior Robotics Scientist
Jim Monroe
Senior SQA Engineer
Tom Munger
Director, North America Sales
Sean Murray
Founder and Robotic Systems Engineering Director
Fayfay Ning
Intern, Optimization Team
Aarati Noronha
Perception Engineer
Andreas Orthey
Robotics Scientist
Elizabeth Renda
Lead Product Designer
Rebeca Rodrigues
Software Engineer
Marcos Rodriguez
Technical Support Engineer
Neil Roza
Systems Software Engineer
Arne Sieverling
Senior Robotics Scientist
Chris Smith
Lead Robotics Engineer
Ivan Sobol
Software Engineer
Alex Soler Fenoll
Senior Applications Engineer
Dan Sorin
Founder and Chief Architect
Krishna Suresh
SQA Intern
Stefie Tellex
Senior Advisor, Perception
Carlos Terra
Software Engineer
Eric Tran
Robotics Engineer
Ty Tremblay
Software Engineer
Maggie Weeks
Director, Marketing
Mark Yeatman
Robotics Software Engineer
Kevin Zhou
Applications Engineer
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