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Helen Oleynikova

Robotics veteran with 15 years across Willow Garage, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ETH Zürich. Holds a PhD from ETH Zürich in mapping and planning for cluttered environments. Co-created nvblox, the 3D mapping library in NVIDIA Isaac ROS. Founder and CEO of Exclaim Robotics.

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  • Exclaim Roboticsverified→
    CEO & Founder

    Zürich-based robotics startup building autonomous mobile robots to perform routine repair and maintenance work inside AI data centres.

    Pre-Seed · $5M1 model
  • Googleverified→
    Former Robotics Researcher

    Google (Alphabet, NASDAQ: GOOGL) develops AI, cloud computing, and autonomous driving technology.

    1 model
  • NVIDIAverified→
    Former Robotics Researcher (co-created nvblox)

    World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA).

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Former / Previously (2)

  • NVIDIA Robotics Researcher (co-created nvblox)Secondary-verified
  • Google Robotics ResearcherSecondary-verified

Sources (1)

  1. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/zurich-based-exclaim-robotics-exits-stealth-with-e4-29-million-to-build-robots-for-ai-data-centre-maintenance/

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