Third Wave Automation

I led the Perception and Manipulation team, which covered everything from detecting pallets and payloads and estimating their sizes, weights, and poses, autonomously scanning barcodes, critical safety features, and even managing the forklift's internal state machine and its interface with the warehouse management system. Over my four years the scope grew from individual perception contributions, to tech lead for the core perception product, to managing a team of five engineers.

The work mixed learned approaches with classical vision and robotics algorithms, and the goal was always the same: a best-in-class system that operates in production warehouses safely among other humans and forklifts, all at human quality.