Summary
Ben Duffy is a Staff Engineer and roboticist with 11 years of hands-on experience building intelligent systems that bridge AI research and real-world robotics. As co-founder of Bearcover and The M Tank, he has shipped full-stack robotic products for elderly care and translated cutting-edge ML/DL/RL research into accessible public resources. He combines deep expertise across computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, SLAM and DSP (including radar-based breathing sensing) with practical skills in hardware, mechatronics and motion planning. Now working on humanoids, manipulation and robot learning at Agile Robots, he brings startup grit and academic curiosity to production-grade autonomy. Notably, his background ranges from hobby game development to prototype telepresence platforms and sensing-through-walls experiments, reflecting an unusual blend of creative prototyping and rigorous research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Trinity College Dublin
High School, High School at St. Pauls College
English, Finnish, German