Max Polzin
Co-Founder & COO at Embodied AI
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMax Polzin is a robotics engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of hands-on experience building and deploying autonomous robotic systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & COO of Embodied AI while pursuing a PhD at EPFL's CREATE Lab. He bridges academic research and industry productization, having developed autonomous camera robots at Seervision and state estimation and control systems for challenging field platforms. Max focuses on novel mobile robots for extreme environments—boreal forests, steep slopes, and polar glaciers—combining rigorous modeling with practical field validation. Trained at ETH Zürich and TU Darmstadt, he brings both top-tier academic credentials and a knack for turning experimental prototypes into operational systems. An understated strength is his repeated success translating complex control and perception research into reliable, tested field systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster of Science - MS, Robotic, Systems and Control, 5.46 (very good), Master of Science - MS, Robotic, Systems and Control, 5.46 (very good) at ETH Zürich
German, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (165)
ros10
middleware10
robotics10
autopilot10
visual-odometry10
drones10
depth-camera10
rosbag10
optical-flow10
slam10
mavlink9
user-guide9
sdk9
object-detection9
ubuntu9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rosblox/rosblox.github.io
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
rosblox/zed-ros2-wrapper
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
ROS 2 wrapper beta for the ZED SDK
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
roboticsros2zedsdkros-2
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