clemens claudio christoph
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i love building technologies that have the potential to change millions of lives. doing that with smart people that i love, is the biggest privilege in my life.
- ORCA Dexterity:
- co-founded ORCA Dexterity in 2025, shipped to hundreds of labs, with thousands of community members
- pushing the frontier of robotic hands ever since: learn more
- talks:
- Real World Robotics ETH Zürich (September 2026): guest lecture, “Design of Robotic Hands”
- World Robotics Conference (WRC) Main Forum (August 2026): keynote speaker, “The ORCA Ecosystem: Accessible Robotic Hand Hardware and Software for Dexterous Manipulation”
- Paxini Global Embodied Ecosystem Night (August 2026): keynote speaker, “Giving the Open-Source ORCA Hand a Sense of Touch”
- Hunan Television (July 2026): featured in “ORCA on Hunan TV: Industry and Academia Insights”, aired to around 10 million viewers
- Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics Lab (October 2025): guest speaker, “ORCA: An Open-Source, Reliable, Cost-Effective, Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand for Uninterrupted Dexterous Task Learning”
- Stanford University, IPRL Lab (June 2025): guest speaker, “ORCA: An Open-Source, Reliable, Cost-Effective, Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand for Uninterrupted Dexterous Task Learning”
- IEEE/RSJ IROS Atlanta (May 2025): invited speaker on reproducibility in soft robotics, followed by a panel discussion
- ICRA Japan (May 2024): presenter, “Self-Sensing Control of an Electrohydraulic Robotic Shoulder”
- publications:
- edu
- stanford: master thesis: real world rl with orca hand
- eth zurich: bachelor & master: robotics
hobbies
- drone & fpv videography:
- organ playing:
- gave concerts in vienna
- toccata and fugue in d minor
- vivaldi winter
- star wars throne room theme
- calisthenics:
- 10 consecutive muscle ups
- full handstand push-ups
- 10 second back lever
- slow muscle up
- table tennis & tennis
- drawing:
isha 2022
emma watson 2015