Nicolas Rabault
Robot Embodiment Engineer at Hugging Face
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Rabault is a robotics-focused engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building modular, embedded systems and leading open-source hardware tooling. As CEO and principal maintainer of Luos and now Robot Embodiment Engineer at Hugging Face, he blends hands-on embedded electronics, real-time software and system architecture to push experimental robotics at the edge of what’s possible. He has co-founded multiple robotics startups (Pollen Robotics, Pollen’s successor ventures) and served as CTO/advisor for productizing modular robot ecosystems, bringing both research (Inria) and startup execution experience. A frequent speaker and published author on embedded and robotics topics, he is skilled at uniting cross-disciplinary teams around visionary projects and translating complex hardware constraints into agile software-driven solutions. Notably, he runs an open-source devtool that treats hardware with software-like modularity, reflecting his uncommon focus on making physical systems as composable and maintainable as code.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, GEII (génie électrique et informatique industriel), DUT, GEII (génie électrique et informatique industriel) at IUT ville d'avrayingénieur, real time & embeded system, ingénieur, real time & embeded system at ingésup
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Github Skills (121)
realtime10
embedded10
ros10
robotics10
ai10
platformio10
freertos10
cicd10
iot10
driver10
communication-protocol10
raspberry-pi10
arduino10
timing9
python9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Luos-io/Examples
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Drivers, apps and projects examples with Luos
Contributions:1 release, 27 reviews, 193 commits in 1 year 9 months
driverembedded-systemsluosdriversapplications
Luos-io/Esp_luos_pipe
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
A pipe between a Luos Gate and wifi/bluetooth through an ESP32
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
bluetoothesp32wifiembedded-systemsluos
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