Mayank Patel
Group Leader Manipulation Team Lead AI Developer For Mobile Robots
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMayank Patel is a robotics researcher and engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-driven mobile manipulation systems. As Group Leader of the Manipulation Team at NEURA Robotics, he bridges research and product delivery, specializing in computer vision, deep learning, path planning, grasping and NMPC-based reactive motion planning. His background includes a sustained research tenure at Fraunhofer IPA and a Master’s in Computational Engineering (Mechatronics), enabling him to translate advanced algorithms into robust robot behavior in industrial settings. Colleagues know him for steering cross-disciplinary projects from prototype to deployment while keeping close to the codebase as a lead AI developer. Fluent in both the theoretical and practical aspects of autonomous mobile robots, he often leverages insights from real-world experiments to iterate faster than typical lab-to-product workflows. Based in Böblingen, Germany, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic drive to commercialize intelligent manipulation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational Engineering with Specialization Mechatronics, Master's degree Computational Engineering with Specialization Mechatronics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg-ErlangenBachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at U.V.Patel College of Engineering - India
German, English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (52)
predictive10
model-predictive-control9
collision-detection9
collision9
ros-control9
mpc9
planning9
driver9
urdf8
motion-planning8
expressions8
gazebosim7
reactive7
robotics7
ignition7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ipa-mjp/universal_robot
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:41 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 7 months
roboticsros2universal-robotsrosrobots
ipa-mjp/cob_common
Jun 2017 - May 2022
The cob_common stack hosts common packages that are used within the Care-O-bot repository. E.g. utility packages or common message and service definitions etc. Also the urdf desciption of the robot is located in this stack.
Contributions:102 pushes, 62 branches in 5 years
pythonhostsbotroboturdf
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