Nicholas Paine

Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik. Received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin. Developed the UT Series Elastic Actuator and contributed to NASA's Valkyrie humanoid robot.

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Founder

Companies

1 company
Apptronik $964M
Private Founder

Humanoid robotics company building the Apollo general-purpose robot for manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Spun out of the University of Texas Human Centered Robotics Lab in 2016.

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