Boone Adkins
Robotics Engineer at Stealth Mode AI Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoone Adkins is a robotics engineer with 11 years of experience building real-world robot intelligence, from motion planning and perception for industrial arms to computer-vision-driven automation for tire handling. He combines startup grit—co-founding a stealth AI startup and delivering high-pressure demos—with academic rigor from USC and early aerospace/defense engineering roles. Boone architects full-stack robotics systems that fuse behavior-based control, world models, and LLM and knowledge-based AI stacks to enable robust, real-time decision-making. Known for documenting clearly and mentoring teammates, he routinely takes ownership and fixes hard problems without being asked. Based in the Bay Area, he’s focused on leading teams to build generally-intelligent machines that make “dumb matter smart,” marrying practical deployments with ambitious long-term AI goals.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.6, Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.6 at USCB.S., Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 3.24, B.S., Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 3.24 at University of Virginia
Github Skills (80)
robot-control10
moveit10
gazebosim10
robot10
robotics9
astar9
state-machine9
manipulator9
ros9
thor9
printable9
spout8
duplicates8
game-ai8
falcon7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
b-adkins/they_are_billions.ahk
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
gamezombieindiehotkeysindie-game
b-adkins/BehaviorTree.ROS2
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
BehaviorTree.CPP utilities to work with ROS2
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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