I’m a robotics engineer currently leading engineering and product teams at K-Scale Labs (YC W24). I’ve worked on and led projects in mechanical, electrical, design, software, ML, marketing, and manufacturing.
My personal mission is to solve some of the biggest problems in the world, including:
I love building cool projects with cool people. Shoot me a message if you’re working on something cool!
Currently, I’m building mass-manufacturable, consumer-grade humanoid robots in the U.S. that perform agile locomotion and dexterous manipulation. My goal is to bring together whole-body robot control (RL) and vision-language (VLA) to achieve physical intelligence, and then open-source it to everyone.
https://stream.mux.com/nCLMim8QdP9TQ00wEC6gQw4XObYtM2c01jPz6zO9oMDpc/highest.mp4
K-Bot is an open-source, developer focused humanoid platform running RL-based locomotion and VLA manipulation.
I’m the main creator of the robot and led the engineering and product at K-Scale across the stack — ML training library, operating system, hardware design, and manufacturing from prototyping to production in less than 6 months.
K-Bot is the United States’ first consumer & open-source humanoid robot. In the July 2025 launch, we sold out the first 150 production units for USD$2M+ to developers and top labs from Google Deepmind, OpenAI, and Stanford.
See: Product page (Website), Software stack (Youtube), Hardware stack (YouTube)
Independent coverage: The Information (May 2025), Late Post (June 2025), HN front page (May 2025)
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Following the success of the Zeroth-01 robot, I’m working on bringing the robot to mass production with more developer tools and capabilities. Currently, the prototypes have been used in Stanford’s CS234 Reinforcement Learning course.
The robot is sub-$1k with open-source SDK & sim for RL/VLA. Currently with 20,000+ on the public waitlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zqIltJcVw
Zeroth-01 is the world’s smallest 3D printable and open-source end-to-end humanoid robot for $350 BoM. I and friends designed and built the stack from RL training and the operating system, designed the hardware, and manufactured it. The open-source community now boasts 5000+ members with over 700+ stars on GitHub, and used by educators, developers, and labs all over the world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPCiDQ4IMRU
I built an industrial robot visual programming, testing, and deployment platform that allowed non-programmers to construct industrial robot behavior trees through a graphical interface, allowing testing in simulation, debugging, and deployment onto real robots.
I shipped features to partners and clients including Mecademic Robotics.
I built controllers, planners, inverse/forward kinematic/dynamics algorithms, and action client/server framework from scratch with ROS1 with C++ for the Kinvoa Gen3 robotic arms for dynamic grasping.
Built controllers: kinematics and dynamic control, redundancy resolution, force control and contacts, grasping. Built planners: trajectory generation, potential fields, collision detection and avoidance.
Student @ McGill University (2023)