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Lex Roller

Robotics engineer

I build practical robots.

I’m the cofounder and CEO of HIRO Industries, where I lead product and hardware engineering for Origin, a dual-arm robot for everyday industrial work. My background spans electrical systems, perception, autonomy, and hands-on robot development.

Lex Roller outdoors, wearing sunglasses and a dark jacket

Selected work

Robots, products, and teams.

A selection of work across complete robot platforms, autonomy, embedded systems, and software products.

Product rendering of Origin, HIRO Industries’ dual-arm robot

Cofounder & CEO

HIRO Industries

Cofounded HIRO Industries and lead product, hardware engineering, and company direction. Developing Origin, a stationary dual-arm robot for human workstations, with packing, kitting, and light assembly as initial applications.

Robot designHardwareProductCompany building
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Custom autonomous industrial cleaning robot

Robotics Intern

Sucky Robot

Designed and built a shop-floor cleaning robot from chassis through mission software. The system combined a custom vacuum platform, visual SLAM, accelerated mapping, Nav2, coverage planning, and hardware control.

ROS 2Visual SLAMNav2Hardware
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NORI A3 bimanual home robot

Founding Engineer

Nori Robotics

Worked across three successive robot platforms—L2, L3, and A3—with contributions spanning electrical systems, perception, SLAM, navigation, ROS development, and the voice agent.

L2, L3 & A3ElectricalAutonomyROS
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Industrial push sweeper converted into an autonomous mobile robot

Robotics Intern

Sweepy Robot

Converted an industrial push sweeper into an autonomous mobile robot with custom brush-control electronics, SLAM, navigation, and PS4 teleoperation.

ROS 2Embedded controlSLAM
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cadfactory.ai parametric CAD generation interface

Independent Developer

cadfactory.ai

Built an end-to-end product for generating, editing, previewing, and exporting parametric OpenSCAD parts through a browser.

Next.jsFastAPIOpenSCAD
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HIRO robotics organization mark

Founder & President

HIRO at Oregon State

Founded and led OSU's Humanoid and Intelligent Robotics Organization, creating a hands-on team for embodied AI and robot-building projects.

LeadershipManipulationEmbodied AI
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splitBot market-monitoring dashboard in Discord

Independent Developer

splitBot

Built a Discord-native market monitor for reverse splits with alerts, price charts, arbitrage estimates, and reusable analysis tools.

AutomationMarket dataDiscord
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