Florian Weißhardt
Head Of Synapticon Intelligence Business Unit (SIBU)
Renningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Weißhardt is a robotics and software leader with 11 years of experience building intelligent, safe autonomous systems across humanoids, mobile robotics, AGVs/AMRs and service robots. As Head of Synapticon’s Intelligence Business Unit he drives robotic software architecture and AI-infused safety features for production-grade autonomous machines. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO for multiple robotics startups (4am Robotics, Mojin Robotics, Unity Robotics), blending hands-on development with product strategy and commercialization. His background includes research and project leadership at Fraunhofer IPA and advanced degrees in mechatronics, robotics and software engineering from Universität Stuttgart. Florian combines deep ROS and safety expertise with pragmatic system design—often translating research prototypes into robust industrial deployments. Based in Renningen, Germany, he is known for bridging academic rigor and startup agility to deliver dependable autonomous solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Mechatronics, Robotics, Software Engineering, Dr.-Ing., Mechatronics, Robotics, Software Engineering at Universität Stuttgart
Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
floweisshardt/rosdistro
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years 10 months
repositoriesros2for-eachlistsros
floweisshardt/cob_control
Oct 2015 - Mar 2021
The cob_control stack includes packages that are used to do low level control tasks with Care-O-bot hardware over ROS.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 6 months
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