Rob Knight
Chief Robotics Officer at UMA
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Knight is a veteran robotics hardware designer and Co-Founder serving as Chief Robotics Officer at Uma, bringing over 25 years of cutting‑edge R&D experience to commercial and museum-grade robot projects. He has pioneered anatomically accurate humanoids and the world’s first commercially displayed robot fish, with work featured on international magazine covers and held in permanent museum collections. Rob founded The Robot Studio and led high-profile collaborations—from a BattleBots humanoid to EU-funded cognition consortia—demonstrating a rare blend of bio‑inspired design and practical prototyping. More recently he has driven sim-to-real toolchain development with NVIDIA and open-source edge AI hardware like the Robot Nano Hand, bridging CAD, physics simulation and embedded AI. Based in Paris and educated at Cambridge, he pairs academic rigor with showpiece engineering that repeatedly translates novel morphologies into deployable systems. Less obvious is his sustained focus on making complex, anatomically faithful mechanisms manufacturable and cost‑effective for real-world service-robot applications.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Masters of Engineering MEng and Masters of Robotics and Embedded Systems Manufacturing Engineering Robotics and Embedded Systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA Masters of Engineering MEng and Masters of Robotics and Embedded Systems Manufacturing Engineering Robotics and Embedded Systems at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (50)
bitlocker10
codec10
player10
lossless10
ffmpeg9
cut9
reverse-engineering8
audio8
gnome8
libgit28
vulnerability8
octoprint7
graphic7
gnome-shell7
dock7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kkamagui/bitleaker
Mar 2020 - Oct 2024
This tool can decrypt a BitLocker-locked partition with the TPM vulnerability
Contributions:1 PR, 82 comments, 3 issues in 4 years 8 months
bitlockervulnerabilityblackhatcve-2018-6622tpm-20
roboknight/lpcopen
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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