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Lex Roller

Background

Experience & education

Building reliable robotics systems across startups, research, and industrial deployments.

Experience

Founding Engineer

Nori Robotics (YC S26)

Jun 2026 – PresentSan Francisco, CA
  • Building and bringing up NORI L3 across robotics software, embedded systems, product infrastructure, and production tooling.
  • Integrating actuators, sensors, safety behavior, teleoperation, and operator-facing workflows into a cohesive robot platform moving toward launch.

Undergraduate Robotics Researcher

Do Robotics Lab

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026Corvallis, OR
  • Extended published work on bi-stable tape robot manipulation and reconfiguration through experimental characterization, building on this paper.
  • Focused on repeatability and controllability so experimental results could guide follow-on prototype and controls decisions.

Robotics Intern

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2025Willamina, OR
  • Designed and built Sucky, a custom autonomous cleaning robot with a purpose-built chassis and dual-cyclone vacuum system.
  • Integrated accelerated NVBLOX mapping, RealSense visual SLAM, Nav2, custom hardware drivers, coverage planning, and a mission-control interface on Jetson Nano.

Robotics Intern

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2024Willamina, OR
  • Converted an industrial push sweeper into an autonomous mobile robot using ROS 2, SLAM, and Nav2.
  • Built custom relay and microcontroller control for the motorized brushes, then added PS4 teleoperation alongside autonomous point-to-point navigation.

Education

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Minor in Computer Science

Oregon State University

Awarded Jun 2026

Built a broad hardware-and-software foundation through embedded systems, controls, signal processing, digital design, and upper-division computer science.

Embedded systemsSignals & controlsDigital designSoftware engineering