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Rob
Zehner
VP, Engineering
Coco Robotics
Rob Zehner is the Vice President of Engineering at Coco, where he and the team are building and deploying a rapidly growing fleet of last-mile delivery robots operating across major metropolitan areas worldwide. Coco leverages robotics, AI-driven perception, and logistics optimization to offer merchants a high-quality, eco-friendly delivery solution seamlessly integrated with their existing point-of-sale systems. Before joining Coco, Rob was a technology and product director at Amazon Lab126, where he developed and shipped multiple products across the Kindle, Fire and Echo families. He started his product development career at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, where he helped bring electronic paper technology from the laboratory to the first-generation Sony Reader, Barnes and Noble Nook and Amazon Kindle. Rob holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from The University of Chicago and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Richmond.
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27 August 2025 16:20 - 16:40
Physical AI: The technical challenges of integrating AI and hardware
At Coco, the mission is to make delivery of everyday food, groceries, and medicines more affordable, reliable, and delightful. Equipping our fleet of over 1,000 robots with autonomous decision making is critical to helping us achieve that mission. In this session, learn how Coco are developing and deploying our proprietary autopilot system using a fully end-to-end model based on vision transformers, focusing on how they tune the model for the highly variable urban/suburban sidewalk domain where we operate and how they hybridize autonomy and human operator oversight for optimal operational performance.