Walden Robotics builds full-stack general-purpose robots powered by Physical AI to work alongside people in manufacturing and logistics.

Founders

• Russ Tedrake · co-founder and CEO
  He is a professor at MIT and was formerly Senior Vice President of Large Behavior Models at Toyota Research Institute.
• Ben Burchfiel · founder; Chief Technology Officer
• Kerri Fetzer-Borelli · founder; Chief Operating Officer
  She began her career in test and evaluation in robotics and ballistics and worked in the nuclear power industry as a journeyman ironworker and welder.
• Dave Johnson · founder; Chief Product Officer
• Adrien Gaidon · founder; Chief Strategy Officer
  He was an adjunct professor at Stanford University, a partner at Calibrate Ventures, and executive director of the machine-learning division at Toyota Research Institute.
• Siyuan Feng · founder; Principal Architect
• Rares Ambrus · co-founder and Head of AI
  Most recently, he was head of computer vision and machine learning at Toyota Research Institute, and he holds a PhD in robotics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.