Vicarious was acquired by Intrinsic in May, 2022. More information about the acquisition can be found at https://intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/mission-momentum/.- Led the effort to adopt service-oriented architecture to deployed robot applications and then collaborated to deliver human-machine interface integration, containerization, and application management command-line tools.- Collaborated with Grasping, Motion Planning and Control teams to design, plan, and adopt service-oriented architecture on deployed components to improve application initialization/execution speed, robustness, and isolation.- Designed and prototyped Hardware-in-the-Loop-like simulation for testing robot fleet-level applications.

- Designed, built, and 3+ evaluated robot programming systems for non-roboticist developers with inspirations drawn from programming languages research and web development communities' work.- Built and deployed end-to-end mobile robot and robot manipulator applications by reusing existing perception, planning and control, and UI components; evaluated the applications by conducting user studies.- Communicated insights in 20+ publications and 10+ presentations at major robotics conferences.- Recruited, trained, and mentored 14 undergraduate students and co-authored 5+ academic papers with 7 of them; two students started their own research projects which resulted in academic publications.

- Contributed to developing and maintaining on-board and desktop application backends (e.g., single and multi-robot behavior management systems) and support infrastructure (e.g., configuration and notification management systems) that were deployed to 50+ mobile robots.- Deployed a non-roboticist-friendly robot programming system and used it for collaborating with partner companies including an airport management company in Southeast Asia.- Explored new mobile robot applications using techniques adopted from product design research, which resulted in beta applications and academic publications.