Hannes Bachter is a Solution Architect with a decade of hands-on experience developing and integrating autonomous service robots, now advancing cognitive robotics at NEURA Robotics. He began in a small startup where he worked across the full stack of mobile robots—from low-level drivers to navigation and state machines—and continues to blend deep technical know-how with customer-focused deployment and testing. At 4am Robotics he specialized in making complex robot software work reliably in diverse scenarios and contributed backend improvements to the Care-O-bot cob_driver stack, improving robustness and diagnostics for real-world hardware. Comfortable bridging engineering and operations, he frequently leads on-site integrations and testing, turning research-grade systems into dependable fielded solutions. Based in Stuttgart with an M.Sc. from the University of Stuttgart, he pairs academic grounding with practical expertise in robotics systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science M.Sc., Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Master of Science M.Sc., Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at University of Stuttgart
The cob_driver stack includes packages that provide access to the Care-O-bot hardware over ROS messages and services. E.g. for mobile base, arm, camera_sensors, scanners, etc...
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hannes primarily focused on enhancing the `cob_mimic` package. Their contributions include adding diagnostics information, using multithreaded spinning, refactoring code, and improving the robustness of the mimic node. They also introduced options to control the VLC instance and adjusted parameters for better performance. Further improvements included refactoring and code cleanup.
Contributions:23 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years 11 months
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