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HEBI Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based creator of a modular platform for robotics improvement, named Bob Raida its CEO and Dave Rollinson CTO. Howie Choset, who has been appearing CEO, has been named chairman of the board. HEBI stated this alteration in management displays its transition from offering expertise to researchers to offering options to end-users.
Raida started working with HEBI Robotics in 2015, initially as an exterior enterprise guide. He turned the primary full-time worker of HEBI in 2016 as VP of enterprise improvement. Since 2017 he has been serving as chief working officer. Prior to becoming a member of HEBI, he had been actively concerned within the Pittsburgh entrepreneurial neighborhood, together with as co-founder of TrueCommerce, a producer of business-to-business e-commerce options. Raida obtained an undergraduate diploma in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
Rollinson is a co-founder of HEBI Robotics and a key contributor to its modular robotics expertise and imaginative and prescient. He studied below Choset at Carnegie Mellon University and obtained his Ph.D. whereas researching and creating the important thing applied sciences behind HEBI’s platform. Earlier in his profession, he labored at RedZone Robotics as a mechanical engineer the place he gained insights into the challenges of automation in unpredictable and demanding workspaces.
“I am very excited about the direction of HEBI Robotics,” stated Choset, “Since our inception in 2014, we have continued to develop the platform, have saved researchers countless hours of robotics development time, and have vigorously explored next-generation applications where our approach to robotics will have the most immediate impact. We’re now in a place where those efforts have helped us to establish credibility and to gain traction in automation outside of the laboratory.”
“2023 is a pivotal year for HEBI Robotics,” stated Raida. “Our long-term imaginative and prescient is to place robotic improvement within the palms of the subject material consultants — the technicians, the farmers, troopers, and different staff that know what they need to automate however lack the sources to make it occur. We need robots to be simply one other instrument within the toolbox.
“We’ll get there by focusing on key commercial applications that are well addressed by our approach, and continuously evolving the platform to make it more and more effective for an expanding universe of tasks. Some of the projects we’re working on now with our industrial collaborators will dramatically improve the way in which important industrial inspections and maintenance tasks are performed. We look forward to showing more of this work in the coming months and years.”