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

Deus Cayao
Applications Engineer

Tyler Chaulk
Engineering R&D Technician

Howie Chiang
Continuous Integration and Test Engineer

Matt Coady
VP of Engineering

Luca Colasanto
Senior Robotics Scientist

Pete Conti
Director, SQA

Molly Costa
Fulfillment Director

Steve Dias
Senior Director of 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 of 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

Brian Jin
Robotics Engineer

Rebecca Jung
Validation Engineer

Ryan Kelly
Robotics Engineer

Vladyslav Khyzhniak
Software Engineer

Wolfgang Klauer
SQA Technician

Koji Kobayashi
Vice President, Commercial Business, Japan

George Konidaris
Founder and Chief Roboticist

Nathan Koontz
Director, Customer Success

Thomas Kugelman
Systems Software Engineer

Alan Lee
Vice President, Asia Pacific

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

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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