Sachin Chitta
Director Of Robotics Research at Autodesk
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSachin Chitta is a robotics research leader and founder with 17 years of experience building practical, production-grade robotic systems that blend computer vision, deep learning and classic control. As Director of Robotics Research at Autodesk he leads efforts to create flexible, adaptive robotic assembly for manufacturing and construction, and previously founded Kinema Systems, which shipped the first deep-learning depalletizing solution and was acquired by Boston Dynamics. His career spans surgical robotics at SRI, foundational open-source work at Willow Garage (MoveIt!, ROS-Control, OMPL collaborations), and academic research including a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering, product leadership, and strategic research, and uniquely combines startup grit with enterprise R&D scale. Less obvious: his work helped transition perception-driven research prototypes into repeatable, deployed logistics products.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayPhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
motion-planning10
api-design10
documentation9
robotics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sachinchitta/urdf2
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 4 months
ros-drivers/ati_netft_ros_driver
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
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