I build robotics and AI that ship — and the teams that build them. Twenty-five years turning frontier research into patented, revenue-generating products across the GCC and Europe
25+
Years in deep tech
100+
Engineers led · 7 countries
$50M
P&L profit line owned
900
Branch automation contract
Robotics and AI executive with 25+ years across autonomous ground, air and sea systems, industrial automation and deep-tech commercialisation in the GCC and Europe. I have led the region’s largest robotics organisation — 50+ engineers on a full P&L with a $20M profit line — launched Saudi Arabia’s UGV, Robotics Baristas at LEAP 2025, and secured a 900-branch automation contract with $5M projected annual profit. Patented inventor, three first-author peer-reviewed publications, and a trusted partner to founders, boards and government stakeholders across the UAE and KSA.
ROS / ROS2, SLAM, autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, computer vision, humanoids, and AGV / AAV / USV fleets.
LLM development & deployment (Arabic-dialect LLM), voice-to-AI, edge inference on Jetson / AGX Orin, and vision AI for regulated environments.
Digital-transformation roadmaps, digital twins, smart manufacturing, PLC & motion control, warehouse and materials-flow automation.
Full P&L ownership, government & regulatory stakeholders, IP commercialisation & patents, M&A exit, and team building across 7 countries.
A decade of engineering, autonomy and intelligent machines — from Serbia’s first 3D-printing platform to autonomous ports. Each system below is production-grade or field-proven.
An early additive-manufacturing platform built from the ground up. It earned national visibility — with coverage in the region’s landmark newspaper Politika and in Industry Magazine — establishing technical credibility across the Balkans.
Applied generative design and topology optimisation to production components — cutting part weight by roughly 40% while preserving every structural requirement and function.
A fully 3D-printed, six-degree-of-freedom robotic arm with integrated computer vision and machine learning — well ahead of the market’s appetite for it in 2018.
An OEM-licensed rig that compresses ten years of tire and compressor wear into 54 days, mimicking human operation without ever touching the components. Each cycle fills four tires, then depletes them while cooling the compressor. Closed-loop self-diagnostics log every cycle, flag every point of failure, notify operators, and propose the fix.
An autonomous UGV built for DEWA’s Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park — the world’s largest single-site solar park. It gathers solar data autonomously to pinpoint the best sites for new parks and benchmark the yield of existing ones.
Paired with an aerial-LiDAR drone to generate 3D elevation maps, then analyses them to detect immobilisation zones specific to each ground vehicle — validated in simulation and on real desert missions.
An autonomous aerial vehicle with a top-mounted gimbal that compensates for drone instability to aim its sensor precisely at the Sun. The algorithm fuses solar-trajectory prediction, drone and sensor orientation, inertial data, and true-vs-magnetic-north correction.
Generative-design, light-weighted sensor mounts produced to the optimum for their purpose, materials and manufacturing method — state-of-the-art parts made with state-of-the-art tools.
Autonomous air and ground systems paired into a single collaborative platform for synchronous data capture in the desert — with robotic-swarm capability. Shown at GITEX, WETEX and the DEWA Innovation Center, it yielded patents, publications, and the attention of DEWA’s MD & CEO, H.E. Mohammed Al Tayer.
A monitoring device that tracks the cleaning quality of solar-panel robots and any damage their operation induces — deployed to partners as a product with full user, service and preventive-maintenance manuals. Its raw data is processed into meaningful information later used to train AI models.
Automatic path planning and collision avoidance driven by a simulated 3D digital twin, with live perception from RGB-D cameras and monocular 6D pose estimation.
Live recognition and path adaptation to a dynamic, human-centric environment — the fastest system integration in the market, in less than 2 hours first coffe is brewed. Fused with a coffee-brewing system, it tracks objects of interest and adapts to their position and orientation to complete each mission, super-calibrated for specialty coffee and flexible across every HORECA brand.
Lip-sync and facial-expression capture and reproduction on a humanoid robot connected to an LLM.
Aircraft-trolley packaging automation deployed for a leading Saudi catering company — replacing three workers per line.
Humanoid robots integrated into residential settings — Ballancing algorithms for natural interaction.
A fully responsive robotic barista, as fast and as capable as human baristas, showcased at LEAP 2025 — the public face of a landmark 900-branch coffee-automation contract.
An autonomous mobile robot carrying an RGB-LiDAR system on a 6-DOF arm for tunnel and bridge inspection. It 3D-scans the infrastructure, compares it against the architectural models, ke returns an instant anomaly report.
An autonomous surface vessel with full above- and below-water sensor fusion — a passion project.
2024 – 2026
Abu Dhabi, UAE · concurrent advisory
Maritime-autonomy R&D venture
Jun 2024 – Sep 2025
Saudi Arabia
The largest robotics company in the GCC
Jun 2020 – Aug 2024
Dubai, UAE
Applied R&D for robotics supporting solar infrastructure
2017 – 2020
UAE / multi-country
Deep-tech startup
2017 – 2019
Saudi Arabia · part-time
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
2015 – 2017
MENA region
Regional field engineering
A patented inventor with three first-author papers at ASME IMECE — the technical foundation beneath the applied systems above.
A robotics solution for autonomous solar-panel transportation and installation.
A device for monitoring the cleaning quality of solar-panel robots and the damage their operation induces, deployed as a product to partners.
A mobile, independent synchronous-triggering system relying on the GNSS satellite constellation for external trigger signals within 30 ns across the planet.
Sub-decimeter temporal map alignment correcting for GNSS-RTK fix inaccuracies over elevation maps of 100,000 m² and larger.
Swift GPS waypoint generation via aerial 3D elevation-map analysis, avoiding UGV immobilisation while navigating and measuring over sand dunes.
Individual award for cross-team collaboration.
Team award for the robotics & AI team under my management.
9th place for the Saudi Airlines food-waste solution.
Curiosity doesn’t clock out.
A 20-degree-of-freedom hexapod — the robot spider — built for the love of it.
Strategy, patience and pattern recognition off the board too.
Comfortable at the edge — literally.
Foraging and the quiet study of fungi.
Investors and CEOs: let’s talk about what’s next. Drop me a line, connect on LinkedIn, or start a WhatsApp chat and continue the saga.
