Portolio of David Elkan-Gonzalez
Locus Robotics
Position: Robot Psychologist (Software Engineer, Robotics)
When: May 2015-April 2019
Key Skills: Design, Web Development, ROS, Computer Vision, Robot Nav, Linux, Database Management, and many many more
Locus Robotics is has become a leader in warehouse automation. Our solution is a ground up reimagining of warehouse robotics designed collaboratively with experts in the field. Our robots work by empowering workers rather than replacing them, and have demonstrated dramatic improvements in pick rates over the prior industry standard developed by Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva. Check us out at http://www.locusrobotics.com/.
When I joined Locus I was the second full-time software roboticist to join the team. As such my tasks have encompassed just about everything you could imagine in
getting a start-up prototype to a production level robot.
Our version two of the locus bot
Since much of my work is proprietary I can't go into many details, but a few things I've worked with include robot nav, computer vision, web development, database management, linux configuration, and human-robot interaction design. My work often requires me to collaborate with different members of the Locus team, practice many different skills, and write in a diverse set of programming languages. In this small team environment, I have gained a lot of experience learning and adapting new skills on the fly. The team has made many sacrifices and showed incredible dedication and merit to help our robot advance at the incredible rate that it has.