About OSARO
OSARO is a Silicon Valley based company building technology and products that make robots smarter. We use our best-of-class robotics pick-and-place capabilities to deliver high-performance turnkey solutions for logistics.
Warehouse and e-commerce businesses worldwide are challenged to build and improve automated operations. Working together with these customers, OSARO has deployed solutions on four continents and built relationships with major global automation suppliers and integrators.
Our customers invest in our smart robotics solutions to improve productivity today while building the foundation for long-term automation strategies for better and safer workplaces in the future.
Join us as we build the future with logistics systems, warehouses, and factories worldwide.
Our Team
70 Employees: 23 Masters, 12 PhDs
Engineering is 60% of the Organization
Mean 8 Years of Work Experience
Diverse Team from 15 Countries
2 Offices - Tokyo & San Francisco
Expertise in Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Motion Planning, Software Engineering, Robotic Controls, Warehouse Technology, and Business Strategy
Founders
Derik Pridmore
CEO
Derik was previously a venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and angel investor, and has over a decade of investment and operational experience. Derik was a Principal at Founders Fund, a venture fund led by Peter Thiel. At Founders Fund, Derik drove investments in a variety of companies including DeepMind, where he worked closely with the founding team. Derik is also an investor in New York based deep learning startup Clarifai. Prior to OSARO, Derik founded and managed Arda Capital Management, a quantitative equity hedge fund. Derik holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Computer Science (2001) and an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (2004) from MIT.
Michael Kahane
CTO
Michael brings over 20 years of experience in managing diverse engineering teams. His background includes developing high-performance signal processing mixed hardware/software platforms. Most recently he was a senior engineer and applications manager at Samsung semiconductors. Michael earned his B.Sc. (1995), M.Sc. (1998), degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
Board Members
Scott Banister
Technology entrepreneur and angel investor, IronPort Systems, PayPal, eBay, SpaceX
Megan Guy
Technology investor, King River Capital, Goldman Sachs, The Nature Conservancy, Angeleno Group
Antoine Blondeau
Technology entrepreneur and investor, Alpha Intelligence Capital, Sentient Technologies, Darpa, Siri
Senior Leadersip
Gemma Ross
VP of Operations, Kindred, DreamWorks Animation, Dartmouth
Tracy Perdue
VP of Sales
Khashayar Rohanimanesh
ML Director of Research, Ph.D. UMass Amherst, Postdoc @ MIT
Tyler Valiquette
VP of Product, TinyGIANT Design, AirSpace Systems, Catapult Design, University of Idaho
Advisors
Richard Sutton
Professor and iCORE chair Department of Computing Science University of Alberta
Benjamin Van Roy
Professor Management Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science Stanford University
Noah Goodman
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Computer Science and Linguistics Stanford University
Publications
"Self-Supervised Goal-Conditioned Pick and Place"
C. Devin, P. Rowghanian, C. Vigorito, W. Richards, K. Rohanimanesh
RSS 2020 VLRRM Workshop
"Depth by Poking: Learning to Estimate Depth from Self-Supervised Grasping",
B. Goodrich, A. Kuefler, and W. Richards
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) [PATENT PENDING]
"Imitation Learning from Visual Data with Multiple Intentions"
A. Tamar, K. Rohanimanesh, Y. Chow, C. Virgorito, B. Goodrich, M. Kahane, and Derik Pridmore
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018) [PATENT APPROVED]