Sachin Chitta

Director of Robotics Research

Americas

Biography

Sachin Chitta is currently the Director of Robotics Research at Autodesk. He leads a team of fantastic researchers building flexible and adaptive robotic assembly systems for manufacturing and construction. He was Founder & CEO at Kinema Systems which he sold to Boston Dynamics in 2019. Kinema built the world’s first deep-learning based solution for robotic depalletizing for logistics. Prior to that, he built software for a new surgical robot at SRI.

He started his professional career at Willow Garage, building the most used open-source packages for robotic manipulation (MoveIt! and ROS-Control). Sachin enjoys building cutting-edge robotics, computer vision, and deep-learning based solutions for tasks that have not been automated yet.

Blog Articles

Article

2023

Driving Robotic Assembly Using CAD Data

Learn how Researchers at Autodesk are using CAD data to help with…