Juan L. Aparicio OjeaFounder

United States - Berkeley, California

Founder and CEO of Reshape Automation. On a journey to deploy 10x more robotics and automation in the US by the end of this decade. Obsesses by helping small and medium manufacturers and warehouse break free from labor shortages

Ex-Rapid Robotics. Led product organization and deployed dozens of robots as a service across the US

Ex-Ready Robotics. Launched Forge/OS 5, an award-winning brand-agnostic industrial platform for robots and automation that makes robot programming accessible to anyone

Ex-Siemens. As the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation for Siemens, I led a team of researchers and engineers in the area of Robotics + AI, in Berkeley, California. We specialized in searching for, building relationships with and working elbow-to-elbow with the best university researchers in the US, creating the future of automation.

I bring deep technical skills, strategic thinking and analytical mindset to innovative teams. Used to work in diverse projects and team settings with fast-paced learning curves, I creatively drive results across organizational boundaries. Constantly seeking new innovations and business growth opportunities that shape the advanced manufacturing of the future.

In addition to my job at Ready, I am a Technical Advisor for the Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM). A Manufacturing USA Cooperative Institute with National Reach with the goal to lower the technical, operational and economic barriers to adopt robotics technology, and assert U.S. leadership in advanced manufacturing (http://www.arminstitute.org/)

I am also member of A3’s strategic committee on AI, Skydeck advisor, and have been awarded as one of the MIT Tech Review innovators under35 2019 Europe in the Pioneer category. In 2020, I was awarded Siemens Inventor of the year and the prestigious Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award.

Pioneer on Edge Robotics. By designing for and deploying to the Edge, algorithms can run faster than other popular approaches, such as cloud robotics, where the intelligence is centralized in the cloud. “Edge Robotics” is the application of Machine Learning algorithms into robot control, running on edge computing.

Areas of interest: Product, Advanced Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Disruptive Innovation, Growth.