

Our Team
/002 The Team
World-class builders
Building the robots' brain

Our Team
/002 The Team

Our Team
/002 The Team
World-class builders
Building the robots' brain

Our Team
/002 The Team
World-class builders
Building the robots' brain
We're a teamof world-class engineers, researchers, and buildersdeveloping the autonomy stack to make humanoid robots adaptive, intelligent systems that can be deployed in the real world at scale.
Team /
We're a teamof world-class engineers, researchers, and buildersdeveloping the autonomy stack to make humanoid robots adaptive, intelligent systems that can be deployed in the real world at scale.
Team /
We're a teamof world-class engineers, researchers, and buildersdeveloping the autonomy stack to make humanoid robots adaptive, intelligent systems that can be deployed in the real world at scale.
Team /
We're a teamof world-class engineers, researchers, and buildersdeveloping the autonomy stack to make humanoid robots adaptive, intelligent systems that can be deployed in the real world at scale.
Team /
Nikita Rudin
Nikita holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on deep reinforcement learning for robotics, and has made significant contributions to academia through numerous publications in the field. He gained industry experience as a research scientist at NVIDIA before co-founding Flexion. As CEO, Nikita leads the company with a clear mission: developing practical humanoid robotics solutions that deliver real-world value.
David Höller
David holds a PhD in reinforcement learning and has spent more than a decade working on robot learning and simulation. Previously, he managed research at NVIDIA, where he helped build Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab. Today David applies his vast experience and knowledge as the CTO and co-founder at Flexion.
Julian Nubert
Julian did his PhD at ETH Zurich with research stays at Meta Reality Labs, NASA JPL, AWS, and the Max Planck Institute. At Flexion, Julian is a co-founder and leads the perception team, working at the intersection of robotic perception, state estimation, and mapping, blending machine learning with classical techniques.
Fabian Tischhauser
Fabian has a strong and longstanding background in robotics hardware, across various platforms. At Flexion, Fabian is a co-founder and leads the robotics hardware team.
Marco Hutter
Marco Hutter is a professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, director of the RAI Institute Zurich, and co-founder of Flexion. He leverages his deep technical expertise to advise the team on both strategic and technical matters.
Richard Droste
Richard holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and has extensive experience architecting large-scale computer vision services from his tenure as a senior scientist at Amazon. He now applies this expertise at Flexion, where he leads the development of the company's infrastructure and platforms.
Maxime de Planta
Maxime launched his career in venture capital within Insight Partners’ value creation team, working closely with high-growth startups to scale their operations and build effective go-to-market strategies. Today, he applies that experience at Flexion, where he leads financial strategy and operations.
Martina Rivizzigno
Martina is a product and engineering leader with deep experience scaling robotics products from concept to market, from drones to vision-based localization systems. As Product Lead at Flexion, she shapes product strategy and drives product development.
Dylan Vogel
Dylan has experience across automotive, aerospace, and research sectors from his time at Tesla, Kepler Communications, and RSL. At Flexion, he contributes to pushing the limits of reinforcement learning for real-world robotic applications.
Pau Marquez Julbe
Pau has a background in data science and AI, and specialised in robotics and diffusion-based control. At Flexion, he is working on motion generation and human to humanoid retargeting.
Nicolas Filliol
Nicolas completed a Master’s in EE with a focus on computer vision, SLAM and 3D reconstruction with Gaussian splatting. At Flexion, he contributes to the perception stack, enabling robots to understand their surroundings for safe, autonomous interaction.
Franz Scherr
Franz earned his PhD in Computer Science at TU Graz, focusing on learning algorithms and brain-inspired AI. He refined this expertise at Huawei and a stealth AI startup. At Flexion, he drives multimodal agent development and VLM fine-tuning for advanced perception and decision-making.
Joshua Kalbermatter
Joshua has hands-on experience with humanoid robots from his research at the Robotics and AI Institute and ETH Zurich. With a focus on reinforcement learning, he now develops intelligent, adaptive control for our robots.
Alexandru Farcasanu
Alexandru spent several years at Google, where he built up expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and C++. He's now bringing that deep knowledge to Flexion, where he's developing the core infrastructure and tooling necessary for cutting-edge robotics.
Daniel van Sabben Alsina
Daniel brings industry experience in real-time systems engineering from both startup and big tech (Meta Reality Labs). Having previously worked on Computer Vision and VR based products, at Flexion, he contributes to the infrastructure and software stack of the robots.
Eugenio Chisari
Eugenio holds a PhD in robot learning for manipulation. At Flexion, he focuses on training VLA models to solve dexterous manipulation tasks.
Alberto Chiappa
Alberto holds a PhD in reinforcement learning, with a focus on controlling musculoskeletal models of the human body. At Flexion, he is part of the Control team, where he works on motion imitation.
Cailin Ringstrom
Cailin holds a Master's in Robotics, where she specialized in learning-based manipulation and control. At Flexion, she helps develop control systems that enable humanoid manipulation capabilities.
Daniel Honerkamp
Daniel completed his PhD in robot learning at the University of Freiburg where he focused on whole-body control and high-level reasoning for mobile manipulation. At Flexion, he leverages his experience in reinforcement learning and hierarchical systems to enable autonomous behaviors.
Pihla Mikkonen
Pihla has a background in the Swiss start-up and scale-up scene from software and robotics, focusing on business development, go-to-market functions, and revenue operations. At Flexion, she oversees the HR and business operations function, with a dedicated focus on supporting its core asset: the engineering team.
Ayca Takmaz
Ayca holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on 3D scene understanding, which included research visits at Google and NVIDIA. At Flexion, she works on 3D perception methods that enable robots to understand and adapt to complex real-world environments.
Harshith Reddy Vangala
Harshith has deep technical experience in high-power, digital, and analog electronics design, and holds a Master’s in Power Electronics. At Flexion, he develops advanced power electronics and embedded systems for robotics, building on his prior experience in rocket avionics.
Fabio Bühler
Fabio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics with a focus on learning-based methods for legged-robot locomotion. At Flexion, he contributes to developing and validating sim-to-real pipelines for locomotion controllers.
Nicolas Baumann
Nic is currently pursuing his PhD in robotics at ETH Zurich, where he specializes in autonomous driving and embodied AI. At Flexion, he works on reinforcement learning-based navigation systems.
Niklas Hoepner
Niklas is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam focusing on imitation learning, instruction following, and data augmentation for robotic control and is an intern in the control team at Flexion.
Lukas Molnar
Lukas completed a Master's in Robotics, with a focus on model predictive control and reinforcement learning for legged robots. At Flexion, he works on motion retargeting and imitation of whole-body behaviors for interactive tasks.
Patrick Giust
Patrick has experience in machine learning, low-level software, and hardware. At Flexion, he applies his multidisciplinary knowledge to systems integration. He is also completing a Master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH.
Stefan Leuthard
Stefan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Robotics, specializing in the control of legged robots using both learning-based and model-based methods. At Flexion, he focuses on evaluating learning-based control policies.
Luca Tognoni
Luca recently completed a master’s degree in Robotics, specializing in control and navigation on rough terrain. He now applies this expertise to enable our humanoid robots to autonomously navigate large-scale and complex environments.
Anton Pollak
Anton is a Robotics student from ETH currently focusing on the intersection of hardware and software at Flexion. In the future, he will work on scene representations for manipulation.
Simon Rudin
Simon holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. As an intern at Flexion, he focuses on hardware integration while contributing to the team's engineering objectives
Nikita Rudin
Nikita holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on deep reinforcement learning for robotics, and has made significant contributions to academia through numerous publications in the field. He gained industry experience as a research scientist at NVIDIA before co-founding Flexion. As CEO, Nikita leads the company with a clear mission: developing practical humanoid robotics solutions that deliver real-world value.
David Höller
David holds a PhD in reinforcement learning and has spent more than a decade working on robot learning and simulation. Previously, he managed research at NVIDIA, where he helped build Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab. Today David applies his vast experience and knowledge as the CTO and co-founder at Flexion.
Julian Nubert
Julian did his PhD at ETH Zurich with research stays at Meta Reality Labs, NASA JPL, AWS, and the Max Planck Institute. At Flexion, Julian is a co-founder and leads the perception team, working at the intersection of robotic perception, state estimation, and mapping, blending machine learning with classical techniques.
Fabian Tischhauser
Fabian has a strong and longstanding background in robotics hardware, across various platforms. At Flexion, Fabian is a co-founder and leads the robotics hardware team.
Marco Hutter
Marco Hutter is a professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, director of the RAI Institute Zurich, and co-founder of Flexion. He leverages his deep technical expertise to advise the team on both strategic and technical matters.
Richard Droste
Richard holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and has extensive experience architecting large-scale computer vision services from his tenure as a senior scientist at Amazon. He now applies this expertise at Flexion, where he leads the development of the company's infrastructure and platforms.
Maxime de Planta
Maxime launched his career in venture capital within Insight Partners’ value creation team, working closely with high-growth startups to scale their operations and build effective go-to-market strategies. Today, he applies that experience at Flexion, where he leads financial strategy and operations.
Martina Rivizzigno
Martina is a product and engineering leader with deep experience scaling robotics products from concept to market, from drones to vision-based localization systems. As Product Lead at Flexion, she shapes product strategy and drives product development.
Dylan Vogel
Dylan has experience across automotive, aerospace, and research sectors from his time at Tesla, Kepler Communications, and RSL. At Flexion, he contributes to pushing the limits of reinforcement learning for real-world robotic applications.
Pau Marquez Julbe
Pau has a background in data science and AI, and specialised in robotics and diffusion-based control. At Flexion, he is working on motion generation and human to humanoid retargeting.
Nicolas Filliol
Nicolas completed a Master’s in EE with a focus on computer vision, SLAM and 3D reconstruction with Gaussian splatting. At Flexion, he contributes to the perception stack, enabling robots to understand their surroundings for safe, autonomous interaction.
Franz Scherr
Franz earned his PhD in Computer Science at TU Graz, focusing on learning algorithms and brain-inspired AI. He refined this expertise at Huawei and a stealth AI startup. At Flexion, he drives multimodal agent development and VLM fine-tuning for advanced perception and decision-making.
Joshua Kalbermatter
Joshua has hands-on experience with humanoid robots from his research at the Robotics and AI Institute and ETH Zurich. With a focus on reinforcement learning, he now develops intelligent, adaptive control for our robots.
Alexandru Farcasanu
Alexandru spent several years at Google, where he built up expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and C++. He's now bringing that deep knowledge to Flexion, where he's developing the core infrastructure and tooling necessary for cutting-edge robotics.
Daniel van Sabben Alsina
Daniel brings industry experience in real-time systems engineering from both startup and big tech (Meta Reality Labs). Having previously worked on Computer Vision and VR based products, at Flexion, he contributes to the infrastructure and software stack of the robots.
Eugenio Chisari
Eugenio holds a PhD in robot learning for manipulation. At Flexion, he focuses on training VLA models to solve dexterous manipulation tasks.
Alberto Chiappa
Alberto holds a PhD in reinforcement learning, with a focus on controlling musculoskeletal models of the human body. At Flexion, he is part of the Control team, where he works on motion imitation.
Cailin Ringstrom
Cailin holds a Master's in Robotics, where she specialized in learning-based manipulation and control. At Flexion, she helps develop control systems that enable humanoid manipulation capabilities.
Daniel Honerkamp
Daniel completed his PhD in robot learning at the University of Freiburg where he focused on whole-body control and high-level reasoning for mobile manipulation. At Flexion, he leverages his experience in reinforcement learning and hierarchical systems to enable autonomous behaviors.
Pihla Mikkonen
Pihla has a background in the Swiss start-up and scale-up scene from software and robotics, focusing on business development, go-to-market functions, and revenue operations. At Flexion, she oversees the HR and business operations function, with a dedicated focus on supporting its core asset: the engineering team.
Ayca Takmaz
Ayca holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on 3D scene understanding, which included research visits at Google and NVIDIA. At Flexion, she works on 3D perception methods that enable robots to understand and adapt to complex real-world environments.
Harshith Reddy Vangala
Harshith has deep technical experience in high-power, digital, and analog electronics design, and holds a Master’s in Power Electronics. At Flexion, he develops advanced power electronics and embedded systems for robotics, building on his prior experience in rocket avionics.
Fabio Bühler
Fabio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics with a focus on learning-based methods for legged-robot locomotion. At Flexion, he contributes to developing and validating sim-to-real pipelines for locomotion controllers.
Nicolas Baumann
Nic is currently pursuing his PhD in robotics at ETH Zurich, where he specializes in autonomous driving and embodied AI. At Flexion, he works on reinforcement learning-based navigation systems.
Niklas Hoepner
Niklas is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam focusing on imitation learning, instruction following, and data augmentation for robotic control and is an intern in the control team at Flexion.
Lukas Molnar
Lukas completed a Master's in Robotics, with a focus on model predictive control and reinforcement learning for legged robots. At Flexion, he works on motion retargeting and imitation of whole-body behaviors for interactive tasks.
Patrick Giust
Patrick has experience in machine learning, low-level software, and hardware. At Flexion, he applies his multidisciplinary knowledge to systems integration. He is also completing a Master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH.
Stefan Leuthard
Stefan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Robotics, specializing in the control of legged robots using both learning-based and model-based methods. At Flexion, he focuses on evaluating learning-based control policies.
Luca Tognoni
Luca recently completed a master’s degree in Robotics, specializing in control and navigation on rough terrain. He now applies this expertise to enable our humanoid robots to autonomously navigate large-scale and complex environments.
Anton Pollak
Anton is a Robotics student from ETH currently focusing on the intersection of hardware and software at Flexion. In the future, he will work on scene representations for manipulation.
Simon Rudin
Simon holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. As an intern at Flexion, he focuses on hardware integration while contributing to the team's engineering objectives
Nikita Rudin
Nikita holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on deep reinforcement learning for robotics, and has made significant contributions to academia through numerous publications in the field. He gained industry experience as a research scientist at NVIDIA before co-founding Flexion. As CEO, Nikita leads the company with a clear mission: developing practical humanoid robotics solutions that deliver real-world value.
David Höller
David holds a PhD in reinforcement learning and has spent more than a decade working on robot learning and simulation. Previously, he managed research at NVIDIA, where he helped build Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab. Today David applies his vast experience and knowledge as the CTO and co-founder at Flexion.
Julian Nubert
Julian did his PhD at ETH Zurich with research stays at Meta Reality Labs, NASA JPL, AWS, and the Max Planck Institute. At Flexion, Julian is a co-founder and leads the perception team, working at the intersection of robotic perception, state estimation, and mapping, blending machine learning with classical techniques.
Fabian Tischhauser
Fabian has a strong and longstanding background in robotics hardware, across various platforms. At Flexion, Fabian is a co-founder and leads the robotics hardware team.
Marco Hutter
Marco Hutter is a professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, director of the RAI Institute Zurich, and co-founder of Flexion. He leverages his deep technical expertise to advise the team on both strategic and technical matters.
Richard Droste
Richard holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and has extensive experience architecting large-scale computer vision services from his tenure as a senior scientist at Amazon. He now applies this expertise at Flexion, where he leads the development of the company's infrastructure and platforms.
Maxime de Planta
Maxime launched his career in venture capital within Insight Partners’ value creation team, working closely with high-growth startups to scale their operations and build effective go-to-market strategies. Today, he applies that experience at Flexion, where he leads financial strategy and operations.
Martina Rivizzigno
Martina is a product and engineering leader with deep experience scaling robotics products from concept to market, from drones to vision-based localization systems. As Product Lead at Flexion, she shapes product strategy and drives product development.
Dylan Vogel
Dylan has experience across automotive, aerospace, and research sectors from his time at Tesla, Kepler Communications, and RSL. At Flexion, he contributes to pushing the limits of reinforcement learning for real-world robotic applications.
Pau Marquez Julbe
Pau has a background in data science and AI, and specialised in robotics and diffusion-based control. At Flexion, he is working on motion generation and human to humanoid retargeting.
Nicolas Filliol
Nicolas completed a Master’s in EE with a focus on computer vision, SLAM and 3D reconstruction with Gaussian splatting. At Flexion, he contributes to the perception stack, enabling robots to understand their surroundings for safe, autonomous interaction.
Franz Scherr
Franz earned his PhD in Computer Science at TU Graz, focusing on learning algorithms and brain-inspired AI. He refined this expertise at Huawei and a stealth AI startup. At Flexion, he drives multimodal agent development and VLM fine-tuning for advanced perception and decision-making.
Joshua Kalbermatter
Joshua has hands-on experience with humanoid robots from his research at the Robotics and AI Institute and ETH Zurich. With a focus on reinforcement learning, he now develops intelligent, adaptive control for our robots.
Alexandru Farcasanu
Alexandru spent several years at Google, where he built up expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and C++. He's now bringing that deep knowledge to Flexion, where he's developing the core infrastructure and tooling necessary for cutting-edge robotics.
Daniel van Sabben Alsina
Daniel brings industry experience in real-time systems engineering from both startup and big tech (Meta Reality Labs). Having previously worked on Computer Vision and VR based products, at Flexion, he contributes to the infrastructure and software stack of the robots.
Eugenio Chisari
Eugenio holds a PhD in robot learning for manipulation. At Flexion, he focuses on training VLA models to solve dexterous manipulation tasks.
Alberto Chiappa
Alberto holds a PhD in reinforcement learning, with a focus on controlling musculoskeletal models of the human body. At Flexion, he is part of the Control team, where he works on motion imitation.
Cailin Ringstrom
Cailin holds a Master's in Robotics, where she specialized in learning-based manipulation and control. At Flexion, she helps develop control systems that enable humanoid manipulation capabilities.
Daniel Honerkamp
Daniel completed his PhD in robot learning at the University of Freiburg where he focused on whole-body control and high-level reasoning for mobile manipulation. At Flexion, he leverages his experience in reinforcement learning and hierarchical systems to enable autonomous behaviors.
Pihla Mikkonen
Pihla has a background in the Swiss start-up and scale-up scene from software and robotics, focusing on business development, go-to-market functions, and revenue operations. At Flexion, she oversees the HR and business operations function, with a dedicated focus on supporting its core asset: the engineering team.
Ayca Takmaz
Ayca holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on 3D scene understanding, which included research visits at Google and NVIDIA. At Flexion, she works on 3D perception methods that enable robots to understand and adapt to complex real-world environments.
Harshith Reddy Vangala
Harshith has deep technical experience in high-power, digital, and analog electronics design, and holds a Master’s in Power Electronics. At Flexion, he develops advanced power electronics and embedded systems for robotics, building on his prior experience in rocket avionics.
Fabio Bühler
Fabio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics with a focus on learning-based methods for legged-robot locomotion. At Flexion, he contributes to developing and validating sim-to-real pipelines for locomotion controllers.
Nicolas Baumann
Nic is currently pursuing his PhD in robotics at ETH Zurich, where he specializes in autonomous driving and embodied AI. At Flexion, he works on reinforcement learning-based navigation systems.
Niklas Hoepner
Niklas is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam focusing on imitation learning, instruction following, and data augmentation for robotic control and is an intern in the control team at Flexion.
Lukas Molnar
Lukas completed a Master's in Robotics, with a focus on model predictive control and reinforcement learning for legged robots. At Flexion, he works on motion retargeting and imitation of whole-body behaviors for interactive tasks.
Patrick Giust
Patrick has experience in machine learning, low-level software, and hardware. At Flexion, he applies his multidisciplinary knowledge to systems integration. He is also completing a Master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH.
Stefan Leuthard
Stefan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Robotics, specializing in the control of legged robots using both learning-based and model-based methods. At Flexion, he focuses on evaluating learning-based control policies.
Luca Tognoni
Luca recently completed a master’s degree in Robotics, specializing in control and navigation on rough terrain. He now applies this expertise to enable our humanoid robots to autonomously navigate large-scale and complex environments.
Anton Pollak
Anton is a Robotics student from ETH currently focusing on the intersection of hardware and software at Flexion. In the future, he will work on scene representations for manipulation.
Simon Rudin
Simon holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. As an intern at Flexion, he focuses on hardware integration while contributing to the team's engineering objectives
Nikita Rudin
Nikita holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on deep reinforcement learning for robotics, and has made significant contributions to academia through numerous publications in the field. He gained industry experience as a research scientist at NVIDIA before co-founding Flexion. As CEO, Nikita leads the company with a clear mission: developing practical humanoid robotics solutions that deliver real-world value.
Nikita holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on deep reinforcement learning for robotics, and has made significant contributions to academia through numerous publications in the field. He gained industry experience as a research scientist at NVIDIA before co-founding Flexion. As CEO, Nikita leads the company with a clear mission: developing practical humanoid robotics solutions that deliver real-world value.
David Höller
David holds a PhD in reinforcement learning and has spent more than a decade working on robot learning and simulation. Previously, he managed research at NVIDIA, where he helped build Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab. Today David applies his vast experience and knowledge as the CTO and co-founder at Flexion.
David holds a PhD in reinforcement learning and has spent more than a decade working on robot learning and simulation. Previously, he managed research at NVIDIA, where he helped build Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab. Today David applies his vast experience and knowledge as the CTO and co-founder at Flexion.
Julian Nubert
Julian did his PhD at ETH Zurich with research stays at Meta Reality Labs, NASA JPL, AWS, and the Max Planck Institute. At Flexion, Julian is a co-founder and leads the perception team, working at the intersection of robotic perception, state estimation, and mapping, blending machine learning with classical techniques.
Julian did his PhD at ETH Zurich with research stays at Meta Reality Labs, NASA JPL, AWS, and the Max Planck Institute. At Flexion, Julian is a co-founder and leads the perception team, working at the intersection of robotic perception, state estimation, and mapping, blending machine learning with classical techniques.
Fabian Tischhauser
Fabian has a strong and longstanding background in robotics hardware, across various platforms. At Flexion, Fabian is a co-founder and leads the robotics hardware team.
Fabian has a strong and longstanding background in robotics hardware, across various platforms. At Flexion, Fabian is a co-founder and leads the robotics hardware team.
Marco Hutter
Marco Hutter is a professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, director of the RAI Institute Zurich, and co-founder of Flexion. He leverages his deep technical expertise to advise the team on both strategic and technical matters.
Marco Hutter is a professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, director of the RAI Institute Zurich, and co-founder of Flexion. He leverages his deep technical expertise to advise the team on both strategic and technical matters.
Richard Droste
Richard holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and has extensive experience architecting large-scale computer vision services from his tenure as a senior scientist at Amazon. He now applies this expertise at Flexion, where he leads the development of the company's infrastructure and platforms.
Richard holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and has extensive experience architecting large-scale computer vision services from his tenure as a senior scientist at Amazon. He now applies this expertise at Flexion, where he leads the development of the company's infrastructure and platforms.
Maxime de Planta
Maxime launched his career in venture capital within Insight Partners’ value creation team, working closely with high-growth startups to scale their operations and build effective go-to-market strategies. Today, he applies that experience at Flexion, where he leads financial strategy and operations.
Maxime launched his career in venture capital within Insight Partners’ value creation team, working closely with high-growth startups to scale their operations and build effective go-to-market strategies. Today, he applies that experience at Flexion, where he leads financial strategy and operations.
Martina Rivizzigno
Martina is a product and engineering leader with deep experience scaling robotics products from concept to market, from drones to vision-based localization systems. As Product Lead at Flexion, she shapes product strategy and drives product development.
Martina is a product and engineering leader with deep experience scaling robotics products from concept to market, from drones to vision-based localization systems. As Product Lead at Flexion, she shapes product strategy and drives product development.
Dylan Vogel
Dylan has experience across automotive, aerospace, and research sectors from his time at Tesla, Kepler Communications, and RSL. At Flexion, he contributes to pushing the limits of reinforcement learning for real-world robotic applications.
Dylan has experience across automotive, aerospace, and research sectors from his time at Tesla, Kepler Communications, and RSL. At Flexion, he contributes to pushing the limits of reinforcement learning for real-world robotic applications.
Pau Marquez Julbe
Pau has a background in data science and AI, and specialised in robotics and diffusion-based control. At Flexion, he is working on motion generation and human to humanoid retargeting.
Pau has a background in data science and AI, and specialised in robotics and diffusion-based control. At Flexion, he is working on motion generation and human to humanoid retargeting.
Nicolas Filliol
Nicolas completed a Master’s in EE with a focus on computer vision, SLAM and 3D reconstruction with Gaussian splatting. At Flexion, he contributes to the perception stack, enabling robots to understand their surroundings for safe, autonomous interaction.
Nicolas completed a Master’s in EE with a focus on computer vision, SLAM and 3D reconstruction with Gaussian splatting. At Flexion, he contributes to the perception stack, enabling robots to understand their surroundings for safe, autonomous interaction.
Franz Scherr
Franz earned his PhD in Computer Science at TU Graz, focusing on learning algorithms and brain-inspired AI. He refined this expertise at Huawei and a stealth AI startup. At Flexion, he drives multimodal agent development and VLM fine-tuning for advanced perception and decision-making.
Franz earned his PhD in Computer Science at TU Graz, focusing on learning algorithms and brain-inspired AI. He refined this expertise at Huawei and a stealth AI startup. At Flexion, he drives multimodal agent development and VLM fine-tuning for advanced perception and decision-making.
Joshua Kalbermatter
Joshua has hands-on experience with humanoid robots from his research at the Robotics and AI Institute and ETH Zurich. With a focus on reinforcement learning, he now develops intelligent, adaptive control for our robots.
Joshua has hands-on experience with humanoid robots from his research at the Robotics and AI Institute and ETH Zurich. With a focus on reinforcement learning, he now develops intelligent, adaptive control for our robots.
Alexandru Farcasanu
Alexandru spent several years at Google, where he built up expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and C++. He's now bringing that deep knowledge to Flexion, where he's developing the core infrastructure and tooling necessary for cutting-edge robotics.
Alexandru spent several years at Google, where he built up expertise in concurrency, distributed systems, and C++. He's now bringing that deep knowledge to Flexion, where he's developing the core infrastructure and tooling necessary for cutting-edge robotics.
Daniel van Sabben Alsina
Daniel brings industry experience in real-time systems engineering from both startup and big tech (Meta Reality Labs). Having previously worked on Computer Vision and VR based products, at Flexion, he contributes to the infrastructure and software stack of the robots.
Daniel brings industry experience in real-time systems engineering from both startup and big tech (Meta Reality Labs). Having previously worked on Computer Vision and VR based products, at Flexion, he contributes to the infrastructure and software stack of the robots.
Eugenio Chisari
Eugenio holds a PhD in robot learning for manipulation. At Flexion, he focuses on training VLA models to solve dexterous manipulation tasks.
Eugenio holds a PhD in robot learning for manipulation. At Flexion, he focuses on training VLA models to solve dexterous manipulation tasks.
Alberto Chiappa
Alberto holds a PhD in reinforcement learning, with a focus on controlling musculoskeletal models of the human body. At Flexion, he is part of the Control team, where he works on motion imitation.
Alberto holds a PhD in reinforcement learning, with a focus on controlling musculoskeletal models of the human body. At Flexion, he is part of the Control team, where he works on motion imitation.
Cailin Ringstrom
Cailin holds a Master's in Robotics, where she specialized in learning-based manipulation and control. At Flexion, she helps develop control systems that enable humanoid manipulation capabilities.
Cailin holds a Master's in Robotics, where she specialized in learning-based manipulation and control. At Flexion, she helps develop control systems that enable humanoid manipulation capabilities.
Daniel Honerkamp
Daniel completed his PhD in robot learning at the University of Freiburg where he focused on whole-body control and high-level reasoning for mobile manipulation. At Flexion, he leverages his experience in reinforcement learning and hierarchical systems to enable autonomous behaviors.
Daniel completed his PhD in robot learning at the University of Freiburg where he focused on whole-body control and high-level reasoning for mobile manipulation. At Flexion, he leverages his experience in reinforcement learning and hierarchical systems to enable autonomous behaviors.
Pihla Mikkonen
Pihla has a background in the Swiss start-up and scale-up scene from software and robotics, focusing on business development, go-to-market functions, and revenue operations. At Flexion, she oversees the HR and business operations function, with a dedicated focus on supporting its core asset: the engineering team.
Pihla has a background in the Swiss start-up and scale-up scene from software and robotics, focusing on business development, go-to-market functions, and revenue operations. At Flexion, she oversees the HR and business operations function, with a dedicated focus on supporting its core asset: the engineering team.
Ayca Takmaz
Ayca holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on 3D scene understanding, which included research visits at Google and NVIDIA. At Flexion, she works on 3D perception methods that enable robots to understand and adapt to complex real-world environments.
Ayca holds a PhD from ETH Zurich focusing on 3D scene understanding, which included research visits at Google and NVIDIA. At Flexion, she works on 3D perception methods that enable robots to understand and adapt to complex real-world environments.
Harshith Reddy Vangala
Harshith has deep technical experience in high-power, digital, and analog electronics design, and holds a Master’s in Power Electronics. At Flexion, he develops advanced power electronics and embedded systems for robotics, building on his prior experience in rocket avionics.
Harshith has deep technical experience in high-power, digital, and analog electronics design, and holds a Master’s in Power Electronics. At Flexion, he develops advanced power electronics and embedded systems for robotics, building on his prior experience in rocket avionics.
Fabio Bühler
Fabio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics with a focus on learning-based methods for legged-robot locomotion. At Flexion, he contributes to developing and validating sim-to-real pipelines for locomotion controllers.
Fabio is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Robotics with a focus on learning-based methods for legged-robot locomotion. At Flexion, he contributes to developing and validating sim-to-real pipelines for locomotion controllers.
Nicolas Baumann
Nic is currently pursuing his PhD in robotics at ETH Zurich, where he specializes in autonomous driving and embodied AI. At Flexion, he works on reinforcement learning-based navigation systems.
Nic is currently pursuing his PhD in robotics at ETH Zurich, where he specializes in autonomous driving and embodied AI. At Flexion, he works on reinforcement learning-based navigation systems.
Niklas Hoepner
Niklas is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam focusing on imitation learning, instruction following, and data augmentation for robotic control and is an intern in the control team at Flexion.
Niklas is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam focusing on imitation learning, instruction following, and data augmentation for robotic control and is an intern in the control team at Flexion.
Lukas Molnar
Lukas completed a Master's in Robotics, with a focus on model predictive control and reinforcement learning for legged robots. At Flexion, he works on motion retargeting and imitation of whole-body behaviors for interactive tasks.
Lukas completed a Master's in Robotics, with a focus on model predictive control and reinforcement learning for legged robots. At Flexion, he works on motion retargeting and imitation of whole-body behaviors for interactive tasks.
Patrick Giust
Patrick has experience in machine learning, low-level software, and hardware. At Flexion, he applies his multidisciplinary knowledge to systems integration. He is also completing a Master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH.
Patrick has experience in machine learning, low-level software, and hardware. At Flexion, he applies his multidisciplinary knowledge to systems integration. He is also completing a Master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH.
Stefan Leuthard
Stefan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Robotics, specializing in the control of legged robots using both learning-based and model-based methods. At Flexion, he focuses on evaluating learning-based control policies.
Stefan is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Robotics, specializing in the control of legged robots using both learning-based and model-based methods. At Flexion, he focuses on evaluating learning-based control policies.
Luca Tognoni
Luca recently completed a master’s degree in Robotics, specializing in control and navigation on rough terrain. He now applies this expertise to enable our humanoid robots to autonomously navigate large-scale and complex environments.
Luca recently completed a master’s degree in Robotics, specializing in control and navigation on rough terrain. He now applies this expertise to enable our humanoid robots to autonomously navigate large-scale and complex environments.
Anton Pollak
Anton is a Robotics student from ETH currently focusing on the intersection of hardware and software at Flexion. In the future, he will work on scene representations for manipulation.
Anton is a Robotics student from ETH currently focusing on the intersection of hardware and software at Flexion. In the future, he will work on scene representations for manipulation.
Simon Rudin
Simon holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. As an intern at Flexion, he focuses on hardware integration while contributing to the team's engineering objectives
Simon holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. As an intern at Flexion, he focuses on hardware integration while contributing to the team's engineering objectives
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Whether you're interested in our product, partnerships, or joining our team, we'd love to hear from you
© 2025 Flexion Robotics AG
Shape the Future
Whether you're interested in our product, partnerships, or joining our team, we'd love to hear from you
© 2025 Flexion Robotics AG
Shape the Future
Whether you're interested in our product, partnerships, or joining our team, we'd love to hear from you
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