Ari the roboticist 👋🏾

Hi, I'm Ari. I'm a roboticist with a PhD from MIT in robust manipulation under uncertainty. I did onboard planning at Waymo and was the first roboticist at Robust.AI.

I'm now running Ariel Anders Consulting, taking on consulting and project-based robotics work in the Bay Area. I work on robot system architecture, reliability under uncertainty, and agentic tooling.

Right now I'm building a foundation-model grasping pipeline and agent tooling that verifies its own work, and I'm spending a lot of time at SF hackathons trying the latest tools hands-on.

I'm here to meet people building with agents and robots, and to find consulting work and collaborators. If you want to talk, here's my scheduling link: cal.com/ariel-anders/meet
Learn more about me at arii.github.io