Overview

Gender

female

Kaijen Hsiao is a co-founder and CTO of Mayfield Robotics, which makes Kuri, the adorable home robot that acts as a videographer for your family and adds a spark of life to your home (https://www.heykuri.com/). Mayfield began as a company in February of 2015, and started shipping Kuri robots to customers in December of 2017. Mayfield is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch, spun out of a robotics research division where Kaijen previously worked on mapping, navigation, and localization for both home and agricultural robots.

Prior to joining Bosch, Kaijen was a robotics research scientist and area manager at Willow Garage, where she worked on robot grasping and manipulation, assistive robotics, and shared-autonomous teleoperation, and also led a team of software engineers developing a next-generation service robot.

Kaijen has a Ph.D. from MIT, where she worked with Leslie Kaelbling and Tomas Lozano-Perez on grasping under uncertainty using tactile sensing and POMDP models for planning.