Summary
Abhijeet Agnihotri is a Senior Autonomous Systems Engineer with nine years of experience building human-centered robotics and AI systems across industry and academia. He has led human-robot interaction, prototyping, and ML-driven autonomy work at Toyota Research Institute, Aurora Flight Sciences (Boeing R&D), and now at Apple’s incubation team, focusing on making robots that empower people rather than merely automate tasks. His background blends mechatronics and expressive robot behavior research from Oregon State with hands-on product experimentation at X and Stanford, giving him a rare mix of rigorous HRI research and rapid prototyping instincts. Known for designing experiments that quantify human comfort and collaboration with autonomy, he repeatedly turns behavioral insights into deployable algorithms and hardware. Based in Cupertino, he pairs curiosity-driven exploration (“trying out stuff” on GitHub) with a practical track record of shipping novel robotics interactions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Oregon State University
Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Japanese