Simon Kalouche
Founder and CEO of Nimble. Nimble builds autonomous industries powered by generalist superhumanoids. We've developed the world's first generalist warehouse superhumanoid – a single robot body capable of performing all core warehouse tasks (storage, retrieval, picking, packing, sorting, kitting, etc) with superhuman performance.
Prior to Nimble I was a PhD student at Stanford's Vision and Learning Lab (SVL) advised by “god-mother of AI”, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, where my research focused on imitation learning using data from teleoperation and upper-body exoskeletons. I received a M.S. in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. from The Ohio State University. At CMU I developed the first low-cost quasi-direct-drive (QDD) actuators that catalyzed a new generation of low-cost dynamic legged robots like MIT mini cheetah and Unitree humanoids.
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Publications and Projects
Nimble-1: Robotic Foundation Model for manipulating millions of objects using swappable grippers
Siva Mynepalli, Simon Kalouche
2024
Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-task Generalist Warehouse Robots
Siva Mynepalli, Caglar Gulcehre, Chelsea Finn, Simon Kalouche
2024
Deep Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation using VR Teleoperation
Fei-Fei Li, Simon Kalouche
2019
In the Wild Robot Manipulation Data Collection Exoskeleton
Simon Kalouche
2017
GOAT: A Quasi-Direct Drive Legged Robot with 3D Agility and Virtual Compliance
Simon Kalouche
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017
Quasi-Direct Drive (QDD) Design for 3D Agility and Virtual Compliance Using Proprioceptive Force Control in Dynamic Legged Robots
Simon Kalouche
Master’s Thesis, CMU Robotics Institute, 2016
Vision-Based Classification of Skin Cancer using Deep Learning
Simon Kalouche
2016
Modularity for Maximum Mobility and Manipulation: Control of a Reconfigurable Legged Robot with Series-Elastic Actuators
Simon Kalouche, D. Rollinson, H. Choset
IEEE SSRR, 2015
★ Best Applied Paper Award ★
Vision Based Retail Store Check Out and Inventory Tracking
Simon Kalouche, A. Selevan
Internet of Things, 2015
Inchworm style gecko adhesive climbing robot
Simon Kalouche, N. Wiltse, H. J. Su, A. Parness
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014
Gyroscopic stabilization of an unmanned bicycle
H. Yetkin, Simon Kalouche, M. Vernier, G. Colvin, K. Redmill, U. Ozguner
American Control Conference (ACC), 2014
Misc
- 2024Ohio State’s Texnikoi Outstanding Alumni Award
- 2021Forbes 30 under 30 Award
- 2017Stanford StartX Alumni
- 2015National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow
- 1st place in Carnegie Mellon’s Mechatronics Competition
- IEEE SSRR Best Applied Paper Award
- James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow
- 2014Ohio State’s Outstanding Research Award
- Ohio State's Denman Undergraduate Research Forum - 1st Place
- NASA Space Grant Fellow
Research featured in the WSJ, Forbes, Tech Crunch, IEEE Spectrum, The Verge, Wired, and Modern Material Handling.
Nimble
Nimble builds autonomous industries powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids.
We’re developing:
- A General Robot Brain: an AI that enables robots to perform dexterous mobile-manipulation tasks across industries;
- Industry-Generalist Superhumanoids: robot bodies designed and optimized to be general-purpose and superhuman in performing all or most tasks within a specific industry.
Today, Nimble builds fully autonomous warehouses powered by our intelligent generalist warehouse superhumanoid – the first robot capable of performing all core warehouse tasks including storage, retrieval, picking, packing, and sorting. Our proprietary superhumanoid replaces dozens of complex systems, enabling warehouses that operate at a fraction of the cost and complexity of today’s leading systems from Symbotic and Amazon.
Nimble's Board of Directors includes AI Robotics pioneers
Fei-Fei Li,
Sebastian Thrun, and
Marc Raibert.
FedEx and Nimble entered a strategic alliance in 2024 to build a large network of autonomous fulfillment centers with the potential to generate several billions in annual revenues within the next few years.
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