PickNik Robotics

PickNik Robotics is helping businesses Accelerate their Robotics Development.

Basic Information

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, PickNik combines world-class robotics expertise and state of the art open source robotics frameworks to save businesses time and money. They offer flexible research, development, and support to ensure their project's success. They collaborate with their customers to create next generation solutions that reduce cycle time, increase robustness, generate optimal motions, and improve human lives. PickNik is the lead maintainer of MoveIt and is very active in the ROS community. By leveraging open standards and best practices we are compatible with almost any kind of hardware. We are experienced in the integration of robotic hardware including Universal Robotics (UR3/UR5/UR10), Franka Emika (Panda), Kuka, ABB, Kinova, and many custom platforms. Their Areas of Expertise: Motion Planning with Collision Avoidance, Advanced Inverse Kinematics with Complex Constraints, Realtime Motion Generation / Control Reactive and Closed-Loop for High-DOF Systems, ROS 1 / ROS 2 System Design Integration, Migration, Framework Design, Mobile Base Navigation Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGVs), Simulation / Virtual Reality Gazebo, Rviz, Unity 3D, Robot Modelling / Workspace Analysis URDF Generation, Reachability, Usability, Grasping and Perception Find and Manipulate Objects, Robot User Interfaces Web-based and Qt-based Control. Their Past Clients: Google, Verb Surgical, Numurus Sensor Solutions, Plus One Robotics, Houston Mechatronics, Tethers Unlimited among many others.

Legal Name

PickNik Inc,

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Founding Date

2015

No. of Employees

11 to 20

Core Team

Dave Coleman

Co-Founder & CEO