Alex Alspach
Founding Member at Walden Robotics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Alspach is a robotics engineer and leader with 13+ years of international experience designing and managing interdisciplinary projects that blend soft robotics, tactile sensing, and human-robot interaction. He has progressed from hands-on humanoid research at KAIST and Drexel to engineering roles in Korea and Disney Research, and now leads teams building whole-body soft sensing systems at Toyota Research Institute and a stealth startup. Alex combines mechanical design, embedded/software development, and productization—evident in developing research tools, commercial robotic hands, and “huggable” robots for entertainment and lab use. He’s equally comfortable on the shop floor and in cross-organizational collaborations, having run marketing/sales for SimLab products and coordinated TRI’s collaboration with Boston Dynamics. Notably, his career is threaded by a knack for turning academic research into practical, manufacturable systems and developer-facing tools.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Burlington City High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Drexel University
English, Korean
Github Skills (3)
allegro10
ros9
configurations2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexalspach/2016_personal_site
Aug 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
simlabrobotics/allegro_hand_ros
Jan 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:89 commits in 1 year 1 month
handrosros2allegro
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