We are a small team building general purpose, physically intelligent robots that can perform fine-grained manual tasks in industrial environments.
Witty Machines was founded in Zürich, Switzerland by Johannes Pankert and Kenneth Blomqvist.
We are currently building a team to take on the challenge of building general manipulation systems. If this sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to reach out to join@witty-machines.com.
Johannes Pankert worked on AI based robot control systems at Hexagon. Prior, he researched robotic manipulation within inspection and other industrial applications under Marco Hutter of the Robotic Systems Lab of ETH Zürich.
Johannes has worked on many mobile robots and applications before. These include self-reconfiguring bases, robots that can collaboratively carry items and construction robots.
Email: johannes@witty-machines.com
Kenneth completed his Phd building perception systems for mobile manipulation applications at the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH Zürich. Previously, he worked as an engineer and was among the first employees at the startup companies Webflow and Wolt. In 2015, he founded of one of the largest hackathon events in the world, Junction.
Kenneth has previously worked on mobile manipulation systems, 3D scene understanding and various computer vision systems.
Email: ken@witty-machines.com