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Plus One Robotics, a supplier of AI imaginative and prescient notion software program and options for robotic parcel dealing with, has named Martin Aalund VP of product engineering. Aalund shall be accountable for main the corporate’s crew of {hardware} and software program engineers and builders, in addition to managing the engineering finances. He will give attention to refining present merchandise and growing new services to satisfy rising buyer necessities. This consists of guaranteeing that designs are nicely documented, on schedule and meet high quality, security and reliability requirements.
“Martin is an incredible match for Plus One”, stated Shaun Edwards, chief technical officer. “We feel confident that his management skills and intense knowledge across optics, software, mechanical and electrical domains will enhance our engineering team and the value of our solutions for our customers.”
Aalund involves Plus One with over 30 years of robotic expertise, together with employment at Amazon the place he was a senior engineering supervisor and a part of the crew that deployed the primary industrial robots on the firm. He was additionally a founding member after which president/CTO of Arm Automation, which develops custom-engineered gear and automation options for a wide range of industries. His expertise has included the event of robots, robotic cells, subsea ROVs, manufacturing unit automation, metrology, mechatronics, and shopper merchandise for multi-processor computer systems.
Aalund has a bachelor’s, grasp’s and a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has additionally been an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University the place he taught programs in robotics and automation for each graduate and undergraduate courses.
Plus One Robotics supplies one of many quickest and most dependable parcel-handling robotics platforms on this planet. Founded in 2016 by laptop imaginative and prescient and robotics trade consultants, Plus One develops a parcel-handling robotics platform for logistics purposes. Plus One is headquartered in San Antonio with workplaces in Boulder, Pittsburgh, and The Netherlands.