Coleman Knabe
Senior Mechanical Engineer at HELLBENDER Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColeman Knabe is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with a decade of hands-on robotics experience, currently leading mechanical design at HELLBENDER Inc. He led mechanical teams for Virginia Tech’s DARPA Robotics Challenge entry and has taken five humanoid platforms from concept through manufacture, assembly, and testing. A skilled machinist and CAD/CAM practitioner, he blends design-for-manufacture discipline with actuator development, kinematics, and control tuning to cut production time and cost. At Carnegie Robotics and RoMeLa he developed high-power linear series elastic actuators, novel straight-line knee/hip mechanisms, and lab-wide CAD/version-control standards. Coleman’s background includes coordinating rapid mechatronic assembly under tight deadlines and training operators—skills that reveal his aptitude for both systems thinking and practical execution. Based in Pittsburgh, he aims to continue advancing robotic mechanisms and actuator technology with an engineer’s attention to manufacturability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (13)
robotics4
infinity4
ros4
nodejs2
cli2
home-assistant2
navigator2
bus2
tuya2
carrier2
iot1
aws1
sam1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mangusman07/command-center
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 months
FleetRobotics/khan_robot
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
navigatorroboticsautonomousros2ros
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