Alexander Roller

Alexander Roller

Robotics-first engineer building practical products across autonomy, embedded systems, and AI.

I design and ship systems from perception + planning to hardware and production tooling — not just robotics projects.

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Projects

HIRO project preview

HIRO

Founder and president of OSU’s Humanoid and Intelligent Robotics Organization, leading practical robotics projects and embodied AI demos across manipulation, perception, and embedded systems.

cadfactory.ai project preview

cadfactory.ai

End-to-end CAD generation platform with a Next.js frontend and FastAPI backend. Includes OpenSCAD editing and preview, agent-assisted model generation, and authenticated STL export workflows.

splitBot project preview

splitBot

Discord bot for reverse split workflows: monitoring, alerts, arbitrage estimates, charts, and stock utilities.

suckyRobot project preview
Hampton Lumber Mills

suckyRobot

Built a fully custom autonomous cleaning robot with a custom chassis and dual-cyclone vacuum system. Ran on a Jetson Nano with hardware-accelerated NVBLOX + Visual SLAM (RealSense), Nav2 navigation, custom hardware drivers for the vacuums/dust-door/shaker motor, and a lawnmower-style coverage planner with a mission-control interface.

sweepyRobot project preview
Hampton Lumber Mills

sweepyRobot

Converted an industrial push sweeper into a fully autonomous mobile robot using ROS 2 Humble, SLAM, and Nav2. Added custom relay + microcontroller brush drivers and supported both point-to-point autonomy and PS4 controller teleop.