Enzo Wälchli

🇨🇭 Europe's #1 Robotics Voice 🤖 | 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗖𝗢 | CRO, CSO, CMO | Happy dad of 👧🏼+👶🏼 | 🄵🄾🄻🄻🄾🅆 🄼🄴 🔔 to stay up to date on #robotics #AI #deeptech

Deeptech success requires a GTM approach as innovative as the technology. I help tech founders 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 by replacing generic advice with the real-world "scar tissue" and execution experience earned from 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 $𝟭𝟬𝗠+. I am also launching Switzerland’s first 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗽 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 to inject operator DNA back into the venture ecosystem.

--- WHAT I DO ---

𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗧𝗠 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿
I provide sharp, structured sparring for CEOs/GTM leaders when 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. I help you see around corners on building your 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, negotiating 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 and 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀, or designing 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 required to scale. I shift between sparring partner and hands-on execution to drive real outcomes.

𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗽 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱
I am building a venture fund designed to channel the experience of 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗽 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 into the next generation of tech startups by providing founders direct access to an 𝘂𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 to avoid costly mistakes and scale faster.

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𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲? 
If you are looking to 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲-𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, build a 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲, or are seeking an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱 for your next round: let’s connect.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Former CCO at ANYbotics; established a global category leader in industrial physical AI.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿: Hired and developed 50+ high-performers; expert in team culture as a driver of scaleup success.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿: Leading the Swiss Scaleup Executives network and Europe's largest Robotics Executives community.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲: Ranked #1 Global Robotics Voice (Favikon, 2025) with 100M+ yearly impressions, driving category authority and brand visibility for the ventures I support.

𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 15+ years of B2B leadership, including Hilti (#2 of 27 sales teams), leading a $200M Salesforce rollout, and PMO for $900M post-merger integration at Sulzer.

--- BEYOND WORK ---

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆: Proud dad of two amazing girls 👧🏼👶🏼
𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹: Good food & drinks with friends 🍹
𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁: Urgent curiosity & still day 1 🚀

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

As a member of ANYbotics’ executive leadership team, I lead all commercial teams & activities, incl. marketing, business development, strategic alliances & partnerships, direct sales, custom projects, field engineering, and customer success.

💼 #JOBS in #ROBOTICS 🤖 Here are 158 open positions in European #Robot companies - start your search here 👇

The best moment to enter robotics was a few years ago. 
The second best moment is TODAY 😎🔥🔥🔥 

This week, #hiring highlights from 15 companies:

🇸🇪 Rerun is building modern data infrastructure for robotics learning 👉 6 open roles (incl: Robotics ML Engineer, Rust Backend, Full Stack)

🇵🇱 SI Robotics builds deployable humanoid robots for defence and sovereign manufacturing 👉 5 open roles (incl: Defence Systems Eng, Physical AI Eng, V&V Lead)

🇫🇷 Deplace AI evaluates Physical AI for real use cases: insights & data for deployments 👉 3 open roles (incl: Founding ML Engineer, Robotics Engineer)

🇬🇧 Humanoid is empowering humanity by building the most reliable, and safe humanoid robots 👉 70 open roles (incl: Senior Simulation Lead, Senior Perception Engineer)

🇨🇭 Duatic is a producer of industrial humanoid robots focusing in intralogistics 👉 3 open roles (incl: Lead Robotics Software Engineer, Lead Manipulation)

🇩🇪 microagi is building the next gig economy fueling embodied AI training 👉 40 open roles (incl: High agency, grit nice people. 20 SWE 20 ops roles)

🇨🇭 FORGIS is building the brain that makes production plants intelligent 👉 1 open role (People & Organizational Excellence Lead)

🇬🇧 OLO Robotics is a robotics software platform for cloud simulation, visualisation and programming 👉 1 open role (Senior Roboticist)

🇨🇭 Flink Robotics does drop-in robots for logistics. Handle any object, anywhere, autonomously 👉 2 open roles (Field Robotics Engineer, Hardware Engineer Intern)

🇳🇱 Ambyon builds semantic perception based logistical healthcare robots 👉 1 open role (Mechanical Robotics Engineer)

🇨🇭 LAYERED (Automated Construction) revolutionizes construction with autonomous robots. 👉 2 open roles (Mechatronics Engineer, Robotics Software Engineer)

🇨🇭 ANYbotics automates industrial inspection, boosting uptime, cutting costs, improving safety 👉 15 open roles (incl: Principal PM, AI Engineer, HO System Architecture)

🇨🇭 Laelaps AI is pioneering AI-Driven Security Solutions 👉 2 open roles (Software Engineer (Full-Stack), Robotics Engineer (Navigation))

🇳🇱 #LatentWorldsAI builds the backend for reliable robot deployments 👉 1 open role (Robotics Software Engineer - TeleOperation)

🇨🇭 Embodied AI builds first commercial soft manipulator and AI foundation models for safe and intuitive robotics 👉 7 open roles (incl: Robotics Engineer, Business Developer, Founder Associate)


You are also hiring, but missing on the list? 🥲
👉 Feel free to add a comment with your info
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Cheers
Enzo


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Deeptech Operator | Scaled GTM 0–10M+ at ANYbotics | Cracking the Commercial Code for Tech Founders | Launching Switzerland’s Scaleup Operators Fund

💼 #JOBS in #ROBOTICS 🤖 I get dozens of requests for intros daily, but if you want to land a job in robotics, start here 👇

🤖 European Robotics is absolutely on fire 🔥🔥🔥

Here are a few select companies hiring:

🇮🇹 Dronemaster : 2 roles (incl: developer, robotic engineer)

🇪🇸 Dronomy : 1 role (incl: Robotics Engineer)

🇨🇭 Flexion Robotics : 9 roles (incl: Lead - Dexterous Manipulation, Research Engineer - Generative Humanoid Motion Generation, Talent Acquisition Partner)

🇨🇭 Tethys Robotics : 2 roles (incl: Sales Representative / Key Account Manager Offshore Energy & Defense, Sales Support Engineer – Targeting former EOD divers or AUV / ROV operators)

🇬🇧 OLO Robotics : 1 role (incl: Senior Roboticist)

🇩🇪 microagi : 42 roles (incl: Embedded Firmware Engineer, Founding ML Engineer, Computer Vision Engineer)

🇨🇭 FORGIS : 2 roles (incl: Edge AI Engineer: design, deploy, and optimize AI systems that run directly on industrial hardware, where milliseconds matter and data volumes are immense; Forward deployed engineer: design and deploy AI models and robots on the factory floor to solve real production problems and turn cutting-edge tech into industrial reality)

🇪🇸 PAL Robotics : 2 roles (incl: Senior Firmware Engineer & Talented Player)

🇩🇪 Innok Robotics : 7 roles (incl: Sales Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Service- und Inbetriebnahmetechniker)

🇨🇭 Avientus : 1 role (incl: Aerospace / Mechanical Engineer)

🇮🇹 Cyberwave : 1 role (incl: Chief of Staff)

🇨🇭 ANYbotics : 16 roles (incl: Head of System Architecture, Senior TL Electronics)


You are also hiring, but missing on the list? 🥲
👉 Feel free to add a comment with your info
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Cheers
Enzo

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🇨🇭 SWISS #SCALEUP EXECUTIVES 🦄 Silently building Switzerland's most #powerful startup exec community 🚀

We met for another breakfast yesterday - we do those gatherings 2x/quarter. 

The CURATION:

✔️ Only Scaleups (10M revenues, 100 FTE, 30M+ funding, international)

✔️ Only Executices

✔️ No Exceptions 

Like that, already 180 execs in the community. Growing. 

The WHO IS WHO. (by merit, not ego).

If you think about it: Those are the decision makers of the biggest and most successful #startups of Switzerland 🥰

This is the group that builds companies that will shape Switzerland's economy of the #future 💪

Absolute amazing group - basically the lion's club / rotary club of the future ☺️

And what's next: Giving back experience to earlier stage startups in the ecosystem, with operators launching the Flywheel. 

2026 will be exciting, a lot is cooking :) stay tuned. 

Cheers 
Enzo

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⁉️ Reflective Question: When did you last see so many #Robotics C-Level in one frame? My guess: #Never 😎 Why? This is #Europe Robotics Virtual C-Level Coffee Round 👇

Every Week on Friday: 🤖 Robotics Coffee ☕

09:30 ⏱️ Welcome 
09:33 ☕ Break-out rooms of 3, random assignment → 25min Coffee & Chat
09:58 📸 Back to main room → SELFIE time & retro
10:00 🚪 End

This week was already 2x the participants of last week.

Also the group of Europe Robotics Executives is growing like crazy. 250 C-Level already. Let me know if you want to join (Robotics Company, 5+ FTE, C-Level).

Trust me when I say:
✅ Europe Robotics is on Fire 
✅ We are building Europe's #Future
✅ This is the biggest Robotics C-Level Community out there

And it's only 10 days old 🤣 Let's see where this goes!!

MOMENTUM !?

LFG 🏃

Cheers
Enzo

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📣 Project Switzerland is live: Pairing top-shot #scaleups with experienced #operators - that's what the ecosystem needs 🚀 As #ambassador of the program, I can nominate startups that meet the following criteria:

Selection criteria (3 out of 4 must be met):
🤝 ARR: CHF 2–10 million 
📈 Market potential: > CHF 200 million annual revenue 
👥 Team size: > 15 employees 
💰Financing: at least CHF 2 million raised from investors

Submission deadline is mid February.

Awesome to witness how much energy is flowing into the Swiss startup ecosystem right now - LFG 🏃

On that note: Was positively surprised earlier this week that Switzerland already represents 44% of VC funding compared to Germany or France and is clear #4 ecosystem in Europe. Clearly punching well above its weight 🔥🔥🔥

That's music in my ears 🎶

Cheers
Enzo

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Robotics & AI: simplified | 44.000+ Followers | @micropsi | Ex-Siemens

Most robotics companies have incredible tech. Nobody knows it exists.

Your LinkedIn post gets 400 views when it should get 40,000. Your launch disappears in 48 hours.

Meanwhile, mediocre companies with great storytelling sell more, raise larger rounds and recruit better talent.

The gap isn’t tech. It’s narrative reach.

I’ve built one of the largest dedicated distribution channels for robotics and automation worldwide:

120,000+ followers, 2,000,000+ weekly views reaching VCs, operators, engineers, and developers.

Companies pay me to amplify product launches and announcements to this audience.

Not generic PR. 

Storytelling from someone who’s operated inside 50+ robotics deployments at SIEMENS and understands what actually resonates.

If you’re launching a product, raising a round, or recruiting senior talent, and nobody’s paying attention… that’s a reach problem.

You built the product, I’ve built your distribution.

For select Series A companies, I also provide strategic advisory on commercial scaling:
helping you go from pilots to repeatable revenue systems. Limited.

Ilir Aliu

Open-source robot arm meets hand tracking
[📍GitHub below]

It is designed with an industrial mindset but built as a 3D-printed desktop system. 

PAROL6 paired with a LEAP Motion controller is a nice example of how accessible robot teleoperation has become.

• Hand motion is streamed to the robot at 100 Hz via UDP
• A pneumatic gripper is controlled by simple fist open and close gestures
• The entire robot stack is open source, from mechanics to control software

Combine that with low-latency hand tracking and you get a very practical platform for learning manipulation, teleoperation, and human-robot interfaces.

This kind of setup is great for experimentation, teleop, data collection, and teaching robots by demonstration

All without proprietary hardware or locked software.

Credit to @SourceRobotics

📍Code: https://lnkd.in/evJpDAB7


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20 Open-Source Robotics Projects
- ON GITHUB -
[📍 Bookmark this or it will get lost]

20 projects that actually teach you how robots work, not just where to clone a repo.

	1.	Hugging Face Robotics Course with LeRobot
A complete open-source learning program that teaches robotics from scratch.
https://lnkd.in/d7ipvwjW

	2.	Open Robotics Hardware Hub
A central directory of open-source robotics hardware projects.
openrobhardware.org

	3.	ROSbot 2.0
An open-source mobile robot platform built for learning ROS in real industrial setups.
husarion.com

	4.	Magni
An affordable heavy-payload mobile base that can carry up to 100 kg.
ubiquityrobotics.com

	5.	Stanford Doggo
A fully open quadruped robot that teaches legged locomotion from scratch.
https://lnkd.in/dNkqK53p

	6.	ANYmal C
A state-of-the-art four-legged robot used in real industrial inspection research.
anybotics.com

	7.	JPL Open Source Rover
NASA’s six-wheel Mars-style rover, rebuilt with off-the-shelf components.
https://lnkd.in/eJg7WXNq

	8.	MuSHR
A low-cost autonomous race car for learning perception, control, and planning.
mushr.io

	9.	AWS DeepRacer
A 1/18th scale race car designed to train reinforcement learning models in the real world.
aws.amazon.com/deepracer

	10.	OpenManipulator
A fully open robotic arm stack from hardware to firmware and ROS integration.
https://lnkd.in/dH25Fj8X

	11.	Niryo One
A 3D-printed six-axis robotic arm for affordable manipulation research.
niryo.com

	12.	Poppy Project
A modular platform for building humanoid and bio-inspired robots.
poppy-project.org

	13.	OpenBionics
An open-source ecosystem for building robotic prosthetics and bionic devices.
openbionics.org

	14.	Nybble
An open-source robotic cat that teaches locomotion and low-cost actuator design.
petoi.com

	15.	TriFinger
A dexterous three-finger robot designed to learn fine manipulation.
https://lnkd.in/eBVvzHBJ

	16.	Open Dynamic Robot Initiative
A torque-controlled modular robot framework for advanced locomotion research.
https://lnkd.in/dbJ4idSH

	17.	Universal Robots ROS2 Driver
Official open ROS2 drivers for controlling UR industrial robot arms.
https://lnkd.in/dtFv6pE9

	18.	Autoware Foundation
The most widely used open-source autonomy stack for self-driving vehicles.
https://lnkd.in/dC7jr6TQ

	19.	Duckietown
A full learning ecosystem that teaches autonomy using small self-driving robots.
duckietown.com

	20.	TortoiseBot
An educational ROS robot designed for beginners to learn navigation and mapping.
https://lnkd.in/dj77n_9F


🔶 BONUS ONE:

PythonRobotics
A massive collection of Python implementations of core robotics algorithms.
https://lnkd.in/dpUZMFRw


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1.7× faster inverse kinematics in pure Python, GPU-accelerated! Fully open-source and built for scale [📍Bookmark for later]

PyRoki, a modular toolkit for robot kinematic optimization, supporting
- inverse kinematics
- trajectory optimization, and
- motion retargeting.

Built for flexibility, but also fast:
- Runs on CPU, GPU, and TPU
- Outperforms cuRobo in speed, success rate, and accuracy
- Fully in Python, easy to integrate and extend

Whether you’re working with industrial arms, simulation environments, or humanoids, PyRoki is designed to fit your stack and scale with your hardware.

Website: https://lnkd.in/d4rzDyxB
Code: https://lnkd.in/diYsBX4b
Paper: https://lnkd.in/dywCbmv7

This one’s for researchers, builders, and anyone tired of debugging their IK stack.






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Humans usually guess what robots feel.
This system actually lets you feel it.

This is an end-to-end high resolution touch teleoperation demo built with Samsung. 

Real tactile signals from a robot hand were streamed directly into a human fingertip display and a glove in real time.

Most teleoperation has no sense of touch.

That makes delicate manipulation very hard.
High resolution tactile feedback can change this. It also creates better data for training physical AI

It is still early. 

Objects were dropped. 

Control is not perfect. 

But the direction is clear.

Some stats:

• A 22mm haptic fingertip display
• 32 tiny individually controlled actuators
• Tactile sensors in the robot fingers
• Live streaming touch data to the human

If robots are going to handle the real world, touch cannot stay optional.

Seen this at Fluid ￼Reality
Video: Joshua Jung


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First fully open Action Reasoning Model (ARM); can ‘think’ in 3D & turn your instructions into real-world actions:

[📍 Bookmark for later]

A model that reasons in space, time, and motion.

It breaks down your command into three steps:
> Grounds the scene with depth-aware perception tokens
> Plans the motion through visual reasoning traces
> Executes low-level commands for real hardware

Think of it as chain-of-thought for physical action.

Give it an instruction like “Pick up the trash” and MolmoAct will:

1. Understand the environment through depth perception
2. Visually plan the sequence of moves
3. Carry them out… while letting you see the plan overlaid on camera frames before anything moves

It’s steerable in real time: draw a path, change the prompt, and the trajectory updates instantly.

AAAANNNDDD:
It’s completely open: checkpoints, code, and evaluation scripts are ALL PUBLIC!

Resources:
Models: tinyurl.com/4fzt3cht
Data: tinyurl.com/3b3skf3f
📍Blog: allenai.org/blog/molmoact

MolmoAct runs across different robot types (from gripper arms to humanoids) and adapts quickly to new tasks.

It outperforms models from major labs like NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft on benchmark tests for generalization and real-world success rates.

For anyone building robotics systems or studying AI-driven action models, this is worth exploring… and worth sharing! ♻️

🎙️ Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore, and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London:

In this episode, Stephen shares his path from growing up in Wales to spending a decade at Imperial, a postdoc at Berkeley, and eventually founding Neuracore. Not because he wanted to be a startup founder, but because he kept running into the same problem again and again: every robotics team rebuilding the same infrastructure from scratch.

We talk about what actually slows robotics teams down, why data pipelines matter more than clever algorithms, and how Neuracore aims to become the infrastructure layer that lets teams focus on deployment instead of plumbing.

Stephen also reflects on imposter syndrome, work ethic, moving between academia and industry, and why Europe can and should build its own robotics infrastructure instead of copying Silicon Valley playbooks.

A very honest conversation about building foundations, not hype, and why scaling robotics is mostly about removing friction.

Building Deep Tech #97
"Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure"
With Stephen James, Founder & CEO of Neuracore


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