Aaron Edsinger
CEO & Cofounder at Hello Robot Inc
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Edsinger is a robotics entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of formal experience leading startups and a long track record building humanoid and assistive robots from research to product. As cofounder and CEO of Hello Robot and former director of Google’s robotics effort, he blends deep academic training (PhD from MIT CSAIL) with hands-on expertise in hardware, control systems, and lab-to-market commercialization. He helped found multiple influential ventures—Meka Robotics, Redwood Robotics, and Hstar—shaping compliant manipulators and prosthetic devices used in research and industry. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he excels at bridging cutting-edge research and pragmatic engineering, often turning complex robot control problems into deployable systems. An unexpected through-line in his career is repeated success in forming joint ventures and cross-institutional teams to scale niche robotic technologies.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) CS, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) CS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. Computer Systems Engineering, B.S. Computer Systems Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (16)
robot10
mobile10
robotics10
install-script10
hardware10
python10
stretch10
ros9
firmware9
portal7
arduino-library2
angle1
microcontroller1
arduino1
dma1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hello-robot/stretch_factory
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Factory tools for debug & calibration of the Stretch mobile manipulators from Hello Robot Inc.
Contributions:8 reviews, 302 commits, 91 PRs in 2 years 8 months
mobile
hello-robot/stretch_docs
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Documentation and user manuals for the Stretch robot
Contributions:195 commits, 22 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 5 months
roboticsmanualsstretch-robotrobotstretch
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