Mario Prats
Staff Robotics Scientist at PickNik Robotics
Castelló de la Plana, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolMario Prats is a Staff Robotics Scientist with 14 years of hands-on experience bridging academic research and production robotics, currently at PickNik Robotics after key roles at Everyday Robots, X (Google), and Willow Garage. He specializes in autonomous manipulation, artificial vision, ROS, and C/C++ systems, with a strong track record of applying research to real-world robotics products. An active open-source contributor, he has improved MoveIt's UI and added kinematic benchmarking and differential IK features, reflecting both UI and core algorithm expertise. Trained as a computational mathematician and PhD in computer science/robotics, he combines rigorous analytical skills with practical engineering, including Android development and database-backed tooling. Based in Castelló de la Plana, Spain, he brings a global research background with stints across Europe and South Korea, giving him a broad perspective on collaborative robotics development.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Mathematics, Computational Mathematics at Universitat Jaume I
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
qt10
motion-planning10
ros10
rviz10
database9
database-api9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moveit/moveit
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
:robot: The MoveIt motion planning framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mario primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the MoveIt motion planning framework, specifically within the goals tab. They modified the UI, added features for database interaction, and implemented functionalities like saving, loading, and deleting goals. They also introduced an initial kinematic benchmarking tool, including code for checking reachability against goal poses and outputting results to a file. Furthermore, the user integrated differential inverse kinematics functionality.
motion-planningmoveit
PickNikRobotics/moveit_studio_sdk
Aug 2023 - Jun 2025
Public mirror of the MoveIt Pro SDK
Contributions:9 reviews, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
moveitmoveit-propicknikroboticssdk
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