RoboSuccess

CEO and Founder

Humanoids Summit

VP of Marketing

Duckietown

As the Head of Growth at Duckietown, I spearhead strategic initiatives aimed at driving business expansion and enhancing market penetration. My role involves a dynamic combination of data-driven marketing strategies, user acquisition, and partnership development to foster scalable growth. I focus on identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities to increase our customer base and strengthen our brand presence in the autonomous vehicle learning environment. By leveraging innovative outreach techniques, I ensure that Duckietown not only reaches but exceeds its growth objectives, maintaining its position at the forefront of educational robotics.

Head of Customer Success

Daily Connect

As a leader, my responsibility is to oversee the overall customer satisfaction of the company. This role involves strategizing and implementing processes that improve customer interactions and experiences across all touchpoints. My goal is to create a department and various strategies to help us understand customer needs and expectations, analyze feedback, and coordinate with different departments to ensure a cohesive and positive customer journey. I am working on monitoring and improving the performance metrics, leading customer experience teams, and staying abreast of market trends to drive improvements in service quality, customer retention, and brand loyalty for our different products.

Chief of Growth

The Latina Success

As a passionate advocate for diversity in tech, our team is dedicated to promoting and supporting Latinos in the industry. We strive to educate and empower the Hispanic community with effective strategies for success in Customer Success. Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and equitable tech landscape for all.

Founder

Formant

As the first Customer Success Manager, I played a pivotal role in shaping and driving the success of our organization. I strategically developed and implemented various initiatives to enhance our services and pave the way for a successful market launch. Being the pioneer CSM, I established best practices and procedures that became the foundation for our customer success department.

Principal Customer Success Manager

Blue Ocean Robotics

Throughout my time at Blue Ocean Robotics (BOR), I prioritized providing exceptional services to customers by meeting their needs and ensuring their satisfaction. I served as a voice of the customer, communicating their feedback and requirements to Marketing, Sales, and Product Development teams.

Senior Customer Success Manager (Americas Region)

Genius Plaza

During my tenure, I successfully established and oversaw the development of the Customer Success and Customer Service departments, playing a pivotal role in their creation and growth. As a leader, I implemented effective strategies to ensure the success of our customers and drive the company's Go-to-Market initiatives.

Head of Customer Happiness at Genius Plaza

Plataformai

As a key member of the team, I played a pivotal role in the successful implementation of our software solutions for clients. By providing exceptional service and acting as a trusted consultant, I assisted clients in improving their administrative processes and achieving their goals. I effectively managed a portfolio of over 100 customer relationships, working closely with them to create efficient workflows and enhance their procedures.

Lead of Implementation

Robot GDL

As a pivotal team member, I assumed a leadership role in overseeing the operations of sales, marketing, and customer experience departments, driving their success and ensuring seamless operations. I spearheaded impactful sales campaigns that yielded significant results, positioning the company for growth and prosperity.

Director of Customer Operations

Aligning technology, humans, robots, and business | Chief Customer Officer | Technology, SaaS, RaaS and Robotics Expert | Startup Advisor | Women in Tech Advocate | Latinos in Tech Mentor

As a proud Latina with over 15 years of experience leading Customer Success and Growth teams across high-tech startups, I bring a unique perspective shaped by my heritage and professional journey. My background as an Industrial Engineer and current pursuit of an MBA provides me with the strategic and analytical skills necessary for scaling businesses and identifying market fit.

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with diverse teams to cultivate customer-centric cultures and drive operational efficiency. I specialize in guiding companies through various growth stages by implementing Customer Success frameworks tailored to their unique needs. My passion lies in helping founders and executives understand the vital role Customer Success plays in achieving sustainable growth.

As a member of the Women in Robotics community, I am dedicated to empowering women in tech and mentoring fellow Latinas to pursue careers in STEM. Most recently, I founded The Latina Success, an agency that supports companies' Customer Success initiatives by providing fractional services designed to optimize customer engagement and retention strategies.

Jesica Chavez 🤖🎙️

Happy International Humanoid Day!

Celebrating this day at the best event with the best community ever!

Humanoids Summit

#HumanoidsSummit #Humanoids #AI #Robots4Good

The day has finally arrived! The Humanoids Summit kicks off today, and I can’t wait to reconnect with familiar faces and meet the amazing robots coming to life on our stage.

Humanoids Summit 
#Humanoidssummit #robots4good

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What an incredible way to close out the year—an outstanding event surrounded by inspiring people. The Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025 brought together more than 2,000 attendees and showcased just how far this industry has come. I’m truly proud to be part of this community and to witness these advancements firsthand. Already looking forward to what 2026 will bring.

Jeff Frick Kimate Richards Modar Alaoui Marya Unwala Lisa Her Duk Chun Jeff Burnstein Jeff Pittelkow Niv Sundaram Roy Zorba Lorenzo Juncaj Evan Wineland Aadeel Akhtar, PhD

#HumanoidsSummit #EndoftheYear #Robotics #AI

🚀 Check out the latest release from ObotX - open source universal robots!

The team has launched a new open-source Mobile Manipulator repository featuring the MORPH Series—two parallel-manipulator configurations on an omnidirectional base, all running in the simple Google DeepMind MuJoCo interface. Anyone can download, simulate, and experiment with the system.
What stands out is ObotX’s focus on radical affordability (estimated ~$1,500 build cost vs. ~$35,000 industrial systems) and their commitment to keeping the design open for personal and research use. The project is also rooted in a social mission: using accessible robotics to reduce hazardous labor and create pathways away from child labor worldwide

Repo 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dqDRWnZ7

#Humanoids #AI #Robotics #Simulation #OpenSource

Happy Thanksgiving to all my amazing community! 🧡

I officially started celebrating Thanksgiving 12 years ago when I moved to the United States, and every year it reminds me how much I have to be grateful for.

I’m thankful for this incredible journey, for the friendships I’ve built along the way, and for being part of such an inspiring community. I feel truly lucky to work on meaningful projects and collaborate with incredible companies and people.

Wishing you all a warm and joyful Thanksgiving!

#HappyThanksgiving #Thankful #Grateful #LatinainTech

Did you see those moves from Booster Robotics? 
As someone who loves dancing, I’m secretly hoping I get my moment to dance with him at the Humanoids Summit. 🤖💃

#HumanoidsSummit #Humanoids #PhysicalAI #WomeninRobotics

A human-inspired neck for humanoids, what a fascinating work!

Could this unlock new use cases for medical applications as well?

While many still criticize the humanoid boom, I see a different reality: these systems are evolving to support a wide range of use cases, some more meaningful than others, including advancing healthcare and medical research.

#Humanoids #AI #PhysicalAI #WomeninRobotics

The Humanoids Summit is returning to Silicon Valley, and the excitement is growing! We're almost at a sell-out, so if you don't want to miss this year-end event, be sure to reserve your spot today. 

#HumanoidsSummit #SiliconValley #AI #EmbodiedAI

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Humanoids Summit Returns to Silicon Valley

Good morning from the beautiful UP Michigan! 

Before the holiday rush begins, give yourself a midweek pause. Gratitude grow in the moment we used to stop and notice.

#wednesdaywisdom #startuplife #womeninrobotics #gratitude

NEURA Robotics

Reporting directly to the CGO, I serve as the Growth Strategy Manager at NEURA Robotics. In this key position, my main goal is to identify and implement strategies to drive business expansion and market penetration.

I support the Chief Growth Officer by offering strategic advice, overseeing cross-functional initiatives, and empowering sub-departments such as Sales, Marketing, Service and Support, and People and Culture to achieve their objectives, and optimize operational efficiency.

NEURA Robotics (founded in 2019 near Stuttgart), is a German deep-tech company with a diverse team working on revolutionary robotics technologies to bring robots and humans closer together under the guiding principle "we serve humanity."

Growth Strategy Manager

Micropsi Industries

As a Deployment Strategist, we collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Designers, and Sales Reps to deploy our software, MIRAI. We analyze major client challenges, interpret data, and identify product needs and user motivations for optimal impact.

We engage deeply with customer workflows, working with our customer success teams to understand data and product intricacies, aiding scalability.

Head of Deployment Strategy

As the inaugural Customer Success Manager, the unique opportunity to build and shape the Customer Success Department from scratch, focusing on creating effective strategies and fostering strong client relationships was something I really enjoyed. My role also involved productive collaborations with the engineering and product teams.

Artificial intelligence, software, software agents, robotics, robot control software, process prediction, predictive maintenance, and IoT.

CS Manager

GlassDollar

In my role as a Corporate Innovation Manager, I had the privilege of driving forward-thinking initiatives and fostering innovation across various projects with industry leaders like Daimler, Porsche, and BSH. 

My focus was on bridging the gap between traditional practices and innovative solutions, ensuring a seamless integration of cutting-edge ideas into established corporate frameworks.

Corporate Innovation Manager

Siemens Energy

Gas Turbines - Project Management: Innovation Lab

Collaborativ Robot (UR5) Implementation in Combustion Manufacturing.
In charge of planning, coordination and internal financing. Programming of the Cobot in the CAD / CAM environment (NX18), as well as process adaptation in the real working environment.

Digitalization/Paperless Manufacturing - Test reports as a cloud-based app
User-centred prototyping: record user specifications, describing user stories / jouneys, furthermore design, test and validate digital mock-ups (UX/UI with Adobe XD) with users.

Innovation Lab Project Driver

Siemens

Gas Turbines - Project Management: Innovation Lab
Within a Start-up enviroment, the manufacturing team creates new processes and products by indepth knowledge and out-of-the-box-thinking, agile working and fast prototyping (3D printing).

Responsible for the Innovation Lab - PCS / ULN Burner Support Housing.
Leading a team (>10 team members) by planning and monitoring the implementation of the technologies developed by the project. Contributing with the conceptualization, coordinating multi-disciplinary communication and business evaluation.

Innovation Lab Manager

Gas Turbines - Project Lead Factory Planning: Transformation
Transforming the manufacturing operations into modern working cultures, i.e. self-organizing teams, agile working modes and decentralized autonomy. 

Assistance in drawing up business plans, forecasts and budgets. Together with technical experts the development of business presentations for internal investments: cool bearings, housing and rotating components.

Project Management Assistant

Gas Turbines - Combustion Manufacturing: Apparatuses
Cataloguing and prioritisation of assembly fixtures, creating an maintenance and repair catalog and associated with it, developing and implementing an homogeneous concept for apparatuses.

Co-Project Manager Manufacturing / Production Maintenance

Garden Center Rudow - Tree Nursery

E-Commerce. Sales and customer service, coordinating supply logistics, work and process planning, assigning and scheduling of temporary employees.

Nurseryman

GermanyConcierge Incoming & Events GmbH

Event management, booking and sale, reservations, recommendations and arranging for services. Customer care in an international, high-end environment.

Concierge

Wilking & Tarrach Metallbau

Design/Concept and planning, manufacturing of construction elements, supporting structures and general metal processing. Schedule planning and client communication.

Intern

Der Holländer Pflanzencenter GmbH

Sales and customer service, coordinating supply logistics, work and process planning.
Consultant and Salesman

Robotics & AI: simplified | 44.000+ Followers | @micropsi | Ex-Siemens

I’m deeply interested in deep tech startups: 
building, bringing them to market, and scaling. Follow along as I share my journey and what I’m learning along the way.

Ilir Aliu

You need $100 Billion to solve self-driving? Wrong!
A small team in San Diego is doing it with a smartphone chip and a few cameras... for $999. 🧵

Waymo spent $10 Billion. comma.ai spent $18 Million. Who won?

If you want to understand capital efficiency, look at self-driving cars.

The industry is famous for burning cash. Cruise, Zoox, and Waymo have spent a combined $20 Billion+ trying to solve autonomy.

They built "Robotaxis"... $150,000 vehicles packed with LIDAR, geo-fenced to tiny areas, and terrified of rain.

Then there is George Hotz and comma.ai.

Hotz (the hacker who jailbroke the iPhone) took a different bet: Don't build the car. Fix the car people already own.

He built a $999 aftermarket device. You stick it on your windshield. Plug it in. And suddenly, your 2016 Honda Civic has better autonomy than a 2024 Mercedes.

The industry laughed. Then the regulators sent cease-and-desist letters. So Hotz did the most "hacker" thing possible: He open-sourced the code.

Fast forward to today:
- 20,000+ active users.
- 300 Million miles driven.
- #1 Rank from Consumer Reports (beating Tesla and Ford).
- Profitable.

While Big Auto builds "walled gardens," Comma is building the "Android of self-driving." They prove that you don't need billions of dollars to solve hard tech problems. 

You need better code, a community of 1,000+ contributors, and the courage to ignore the "rules" of the industry.

We are watching the Linux moment for robotics happen in real-time.

The "Stakes" are massive. This is a battle for the soul of AI.

Option A: AI is owned by 3 mega-corps who rent it to you for $15k. 
Option B: AI is open-source, runs on consumer hardware, and you own it.

comma.ai  is the only one fighting for Option B.

If you are tired of monthly subscriptions for heated seats, check them out.


Listen to my full interview with CTO Harald Schäfer here:
https://lnkd.in/dsdmM2rC

AI & Robotics | 100k+ | Scaling Deep Tech

Most humanoid projects talk about real work.
Very few last an hour on a real line.
This week I saw a case that matters for anyone building robots, perception, or physical AI.
Kinisi deployed its first mobile manipulation system into a live recycling facility. Not a demo. Not a staged test. A real production line with real output pressure. 

Why this matters if you want robotics to deliver real value on your floor:

• Handles mixed glass with random poses and no fixed fixtures.
• Runs real grasp selection under noise, vibration and production variability.
• Maintains throughput while avoiding breakage on a delicate material.
• Shows mobile manipulation doing actual shift work instead of controlled lab runs.

Kinisi published a video that shows what the robot sees and how sensor data turns into action. This is the part most teams struggle to explain to customers, so the educational angle is useful for anyone working on adoption. 

On top of this, the team signed a pilot with a global automotive manufacturer to explore humanoid use cases in production. 

The direction is clear. 

Wheeled mobility (not legs!) plus strong perception seems to be shaping a large part of industrial humanoids right now. 

I know Brennand from earlier conversations and from our podcast session, and I am always glad to see European teams push the category forward. Wishing the Kinisi team continued success.




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A simple CNC machine. Wood. A rotating tool. And yet the pattern shifts from circles to perfect hexagons with a level of accuracy most factories still struggle to hit.

I worked five years in manufacturing at Siemens, and this is the part people often overlook.

The real magic is not new or loud.

It is stability. 

Repeatability. 

Tool paths that were tuned forever. Precision that just keeps working.

Robotics is in a hype cycle right now, but manufacturing has delivered quiet perfection long before anyone talked about foundation models.

Sometimes the most interesting engineering is the part that does not ask for attention.



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Humanoids learn dexterity from videos? Wrong!
Make a fist, cameras go blind. A tiny Dutch startup fixed what billion-dollar labs couldn’t. 🧵

In 2014, Stephan van den Brink was a tax consultant at Ernst & Young. He had a stable career in fiscal law. But he couldn't stop thinking about Virtual Reality.

He saw a gap: "We have headsets to see, but no way to touch."

So he quit. He founded MANUS™ to build the ultimate VR gaming glove. They flew to E3 in Los Angeles. They slept in cheap motels, and snuck their booth equipment past security because they couldn't afford the union fees.

They built a sleek, futuristic glove for gamers. And nobody bought it.

Gamers didn't want to wear gloves. It was too much friction. Most startups would have died there. Manus didn't. They pivoted.

Stephan and his team realized that while gamers didn't care about finger precision, engineers did. 

• NASA needed it for simulation. 
• Hollywood needed it for motion capture. 
• And eventually... Robotics needed it for AI.

Today, the Humanoid Robot revolution is built on data. 

To teach a robot how to fold a shirt or crack an egg, a human has to do it first (Teleoperation). Cameras (Computer Vision) often fail because fingers block each other ("occlusion").

Manus had spent 10 years perfecting Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) tracking. It doesn't use cameras. It uses magnetic fields to know exactly where a finger is, with millimeter precision, even in the dark.

When Tesla and other giants started building humanoids, they didn't build their own gloves. They called Manus.

I had Stephan on the podcast to discuss this incredible 10-year journey. We talked about:

The hustle, how to launch a hardware startup with no money, on how to survive when your target market (gamers) rejects you, why magnetic fields beat computer vision for ground-truth data, and last but not least:

How human dexterity is being "uploaded" into robots.

This is a masterclass in resilience and finding "Product-Market Fit" in the most unexpected places.

Listen to the episode here:
https://lnkd.in/dD68NUqX

And thanks to Dove Feng for making this happen!

Most robotics startups never make it out of the lab.
This one raised $20M and deployed in 100+ factories.
[If you build robotics, save this 🧵]

This is one of the clearest lessons I’ve seen on execution vs technology.
[All lessons summarised at the end 👇)

Three founders (Rudy Cohen, Louis DUMAS, and Albane Dersy) built a factory-first robotics company now deployed across Europe, the US, and Japan.

They had:

• No hardware background
• No manufacturing network
• No industrial reputation

But they raised $20M and deployed in 100+ factories by doing what most founders avoid:

They treated execution, not tech, as the product.

Most deep-tech teams make the same mistakes:

• Talk to 5 customers, not 50
• Polish the product for years
• Expand only when a country “is ready”
• Treat deployment as a support function

Inbolt did the opposite.

Here’s where it started.

Not in a lab.
Not in a research paper.

But in a bus maintenance shop, watching workers struggle with daily tasks.
Real pain.
Real chaos.
Real constraints.

Since then, the three founders have spent more time on factory floors than most executives will in an entire career.

And the magic was the mix.

• Rudy with deep engineering roots
• Louis with aerospace and robotics expertise
• Albane with operations, sales, and commercial execution

That combination is what made the company work.

The execution lessons:

1. Talk to dozens of customers.
Not five.
Factories are fragmented.
You need operators, maintenance, quality, integrators… all of them.

2. Sell early.
They closed deals before the company was even fully set up.

3. Pivot based on customer pull.
Their early idea guided human workers.
Customers said, “Put this on robots.”
So they did.

4. Pair technical excellence with operational excellence.
The tech handles unstructured environments.
Albane built the systems to deploy it fast and reliably.

5. Deployment is a strategic weapon.
Most teams outsource it.
They didn’t.

6. Go global early.
Not because it’s cool.
Because automotive OEMs operate everywhere.

7. ROI > AI.
Factories don’t care about “intelligence.”
They care about uptime, cycle time, and payback.

This is how a small team with no manufacturing roots outpaced better-funded competitors.

If you want the deeper story, listen to my full conversation with
co-founder and COO Albane Dersy.

❗ It’s one of the best masterclasses I’ve recorded
on building and scaling robotics in the real world.

🎥 Full episode: https://lnkd.in/dHS5WwNa

Robots that can learn new skills without robot data. Sunday Robotics shows a different path. 

That is the idea behind ACT-1.

Instead of collecting thousands of teleoperated robot demos, they train a robot foundation model from human motion alone. 

No robot in the loop, just people wearing a glove that mirrors Memo’s hand.

Why this matters:
If you can learn from human motion at scale, you remove the biggest bottleneck in home robotics. You do not need fleets of teleop robots in real kitchens or bedrooms. You only need people showing skills with the glove.

What ACT-1 can already do:
	•	Clean a full dinner table
	•	Fold laundry for hours
	•	Assemble boxes
	•	Make espresso with long, uninterrupted runs
	•	Improve through RL (their π*0.6 model more than doubled throughput)

The interesting part is the data pipeline.

More than 500 people collected human motion demonstrations with the glove. The system builds a general understanding of objects and simple physics from that data, then transfers it to Memo.

If you want to dig into the technical write-up:
https://lnkd.in/dfWwST7M

Applications for the 2026 home beta (50 households) are open:
https://lnkd.in/dciP_gSp



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Bioinspired robot:
Fly - Roll - Walk - Crawl [Paper ⬇️]

Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4), a revolutionary robot inspired by nature's most adaptable creatures.

✅ Capable of multiple forms of movement: flying, rolling, crawling, and more.
✅ Features adaptive appendages that function as wheels, thrusters, and legs.
✅ Equipped with advanced sensors and autonomous capabilities for navigating complex terrains.

M4 shows the future of robotic locomotion, seamlessly adapting to diverse environments.

📍Paper: https://lnkd.in/ev9p9HDT

Caltech: https://lnkd.in/dgH7kKZH

Funded by 
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory






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Hardware Production 🤝 Robotics

But these motors... are CRAZY synced:

CNC motor synchronization helps make sure that different motors in a machine work together smoothly so that the machine can cut and shape materials with perfect accuracy.

This is really important for making sure the machine does its job correctly.

✅ Helps the machine's parts move together perfectly, reducing mistakes and making things more accurate.

✅ Prevents the machine from getting damaged by keeping everything aligned.

✅ Allows the machine to work faster by making sure the motors are in sync.

Synchronized CNC motors make sure machines work better, last longer, and create more precise products.





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Music tools usually live on flat screens.
This is an Apple Vision Pro app that turns music production into a modular, spatial system.

Sounds are blocks. 

Arrangements become structures. 

The composition exists as a physical object in the room, not a timeline on a screen.

OPERATOR treats music as something you build in space.

What stands out is not complexity, but restraint. Simple blocks, a snake-like sequencer, and interactions that feel closer to assembling than editing. 

No DAW metaphors. 

No menus overload.

It feels less like software and more like a spatial instrument. 

A good example of how XR can rethink creative tools instead of porting old ones into 3D.

Built by FUN AND AWE  
Saying hi to founder Maxim Zhestkov ! 




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