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Lex Roller

Résumé

Lex Roller

Robotics engineer | Hardware & autonomous systems

Corvallis, ORlexroller.com/contactLinkedInGitHub

Experience

HIRO Industries

Fall 2026 – Present

Cofounder & CEO | Corvallis, OR

  • Lead development of Origin, a dual-arm robot designed for packing, kitting, and light assembly.
  • Design mechanical and electrical systems, select actuators, and develop CAD assemblies, grippers, and prototype fabrication plans.

Nori Robotics (YC S26)

Summer 2026

Founding Engineer | San Francisco, CA

  • Developed electrical, perception, SLAM, and ROS navigation systems across NORI L2, L3, and A3.
  • Built control infrastructure for dual arms, lift, and mobile base, including teleoperation, calibration, diagnostics, and camera bring-up.

Do Robotics Lab, Oregon State University

Academic year 2025–26

Undergraduate Robotics Researcher | Corvallis, OR

  • Built and characterized a bi-stable tape manipulator; designed experiments to evaluate repeatability, stiffness, and extension performance.

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2025

Robotics Intern | Willamina, OR

  • Built an autonomous cleaning robot with a custom chassis, dual-cyclone vacuum, and Jetson Nano compute.
  • Integrated ROS 2, NVBLOX mapping, RealSense visual SLAM, Nav2, hardware drivers, and coverage planning.

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2024

Robotics Intern | Willamina, OR

  • Converted an industrial push sweeper into an autonomous robot using ROS 2, SLAM, and Nav2; built brush-control electronics and added PS4 teleoperation.

Selected Projects & Leadership

HIRO at Oregon State | Founder & President

hiro-osu.github.io
  • Founded OSU’s humanoid robotics organization and led hands-on manipulation, humanoid, and actuator projects.

cadfactory.ai | Independent Developer

cadfactory.ai
  • Built a Next.js / FastAPI CAD product to generate, edit, preview, and export parametric OpenSCAD models.

Technical Skills

Robotics: ROS 2, Nav2, NVIDIA Isaac ROS, SLAM / visual SLAM, motion planning, teleoperation

Software & embedded: Python, C/C++, Linux, Git, Raspberry Pi, Pico / AVR / ESP32, I2C, SPI, UART

Hardware: Robot bring-up, actuator and sensor integration, PCB design (KiCad), diagnostics

Design & fabrication: Onshape, Fusion 360, OpenSCAD, 3D printing, CNC

Education

Oregon State University

MS, Robotics — Accelerated Master’s Program

Expected 2027

BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Minor, Computer Science

2026