Salman Faraji

Chief Executive Officer @ Floating Robotics

About

Entrepreneur and 1x founder. From dynamic humanoid walking 🦿 to AI-powered harvesting robots 🤖🌱, I turn bold robotics ideas into machines that thrive in the real world. In my ETH Zürich spin-off, I raised ~$3M to transform cutting-edge robotics research into patented, revenue-generating systems with real market impact.

Country

Switzerland

City

Schlieren

Industry

Industrial Automation

Skill

Matlab, C++, Control Theory, OpenCV, Optimization, Model Predictive Control, Robotics, Inverse Dynamics, Planning, Convex Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization, Nonlinear Dynamics, Robotic Design

Experience

Chief Executive Officer

Floating Robotics

2019-9 - 2026-3 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Zurich, Switzerland

Intern

ABB

2012-8 - 2013-1 · 6 mos

Baden, Switzerland

Simulating and manufacturing a 8mm thin rolling robot to inspect large mill air gaps and windings

Intern

Festo

2010-6 - 2010-8 · 3 mos

Tehran, iran

learning principles of Pneumatic systems, Hydraolic systems and Industrial automation (PLCs)

Reasearcher

Robocup small size soccer league

2008-3 - 2009-8 · 1 yr 6 mos

Tehran

manufacturing and programming soccer robots

Education

ETH Zürich

Robotics

2020-2 - 2024-2 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Developing a suspended manipulator robot for gardening applications See: https://floatingrobotics.com/

EPFL

Robotics, Machine Learning

2018-10 - 2019-9 · 1 yr

Developed loco-manipulation methods for humanoid robots. This covered in particular: - Walking control - Full-body compliance - Reaching & balancing control - Field navigation

EPFL

Robotics, Control, Optimization

2013 - 2018 · 5 yrs

Research on bipedal walking using: - Inverse dynamics - Motion planning - MPC control - State estimation with Kalman filtering - Torque control - Nonlinear optimization - Mathematic models - Human energetics analysis