Robert Reid
Principal AI Engineer at The University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolRobert Reid is a Principal AI Engineer and robotics specialist based in Perth with over two decades of experience building autonomous systems for industry and space agencies, including NASA. He holds a Ph.D. in robotic localization and mapping for GPS‑denied environments and has deep, hands‑on expertise across perception, planning and control from research prototypes to deployed field systems. Robert has led teams and products at Woodside Energy and SafeAI and continues to bridge academia and industry as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UWA. His work spans extreme-terrain rovers, microgravity mobility, multi-robot SLAM and autonomous drones—demonstrating an unusual ability to move algorithms from lab demonstrations into operational settings. Known for solving localization at scales from millimeters to kilometers, he delivers practical autonomy where GPS is unreliable or absent. He combines consulting instincts with institutional experience, driving multidisciplinary teams to turn cutting‑edge research into measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Engineering with Honors Robotics (Mechatronics), Bachelor of Engineering with Honors Robotics (Mechatronics) at Curtin University
Github Skills (61)
apriltags10
camera-api10
robotics10
hardware10
robot10
localization10
sdk10
realsense10
lidar10
slam10
ubuntu9
fiducial-markers9
3d9
wrapper9
ros9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ros-workshop/course
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
ROS Workshop Course Outline
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 4 years 1 month
ros
rgreid/wibotic-ros-can-connector
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
ROS Packages to interact with WiBotic Onboard Chargers over CAN
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
onboardros2interactros-packagesros
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