So, Aaed was our intern last summer - and he’s the real deal. I got to work with him on some really cool bespoke robotic end-effectors and the guy has great design instincts. Picked up mechatronics skills like a sponge, grokked hamming codes in like 30sec from a whiteboard doodle. Super hard worker too, he would stay late in the electronics lab to work on the motor design for what turned out to be CARA - we had fun testing the backlash one evening and ever since I’ve been trying to shoehorn one of those actuators into a project.

Potential and active founders here should consider reaching out (i think a startup setting would suit him better than corporate research), though he’s obviously got his own stuff going on and a degree to finish!