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Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Co-founder and (titular) CTO of Refraction AI; operationally departed since ~2020. Subsequently Director of the CMU Robotics Institute and now inaugural Dean of the College of Connected Computing at Vanderbilt. PhD in Robotics from the University of Sydney.

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Refraction AIverified→
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Refraction AI was an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based last-mile delivery robot company founded in 2019 by [University of michigan](/companies/university-of-michigan) r
Seed · $4M1 verified deployment · REV-1 at Ann Arbor →1 model

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Refraction AIfounded 2019-01-01cofounder

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Ram Vasudevan co-founded Refraction AI2019-01-01

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Refraction AI Co-founder & CTO (operationally departed)Secondary-verified

Education (2)

University of Sydney PhD, Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University BS, Computer Science

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Johnson-Roberson

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