01 — Journal
Notes from the workshop.
Engineering write-ups, research and field notes from the people building Kineta.
Research
Why robots should learn by touch
Vision gets a robot to the object. Touch decides what happens next.
Engineering
Designing a gripper for things that bruise
What strawberries taught us about compliance, speed and failure modes.
Safety
The safety case is a design document
Treating certification as a product constraint made our robots better.
Field notes
From demo to deployment in eleven weeks
A week-by-week look at bringing eight robots into a live warehouse.
Research
Teaching a fleet with one demonstration
How shared skills let every robot benefit from a single operator’s fix.
Company
What we look for in robotics engineers
Curiosity, care and a healthy respect for gravity.