Alejo Restrepo

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Projects

• Humanoid manipulation setup — 2026 → Teleop and data-collection rig, from the hardware up to the learning stack.
• First student-built humanoid in Europe — 2026 → With the ETH Robotics Club, from hardware and electronics to control.
• Robot learning on a bimanual setup — Mar 2026 Leader-follower rig for imitation learning, 85% success on short-horizon tasks.
• 6-DOF robotic arm with IMU control — May 2025 Board orientation mapped directly into joint commands. ETH PBL.
• 6-axis servo arm, proof of concept — Dec 2024 Hobby servos, 3D-printed body, kinematics on the Arduino. Built before the stepper arm.
• 4-DOF arm with IK from scratch — Jan 2024 Inverse kinematics derived from first principles. High school thesis, 6/6.
• Geometric IK for a 2-DOF linkage — Jul 2021 Closed-form solver. My first robot kinematics.

Experience

• Hardware and electronics engineer, MicroAGI — Spring 2026 Egocentric data-collection devices. PCB design and safety standards for hardware worn on the body.
• Lead, Robot Learning, ETH Robotics Club — 2025 → Largest student robotics club in Europe. Raised 1M+ CHF; lead a division of 25 students.
• Robotics intern, Ascento Robotics — Summer 2025 Wheeled-legged security robots: fleet operations, remote debugging and assembly. Signed the 100th robot.
• Teaching assistant, Digitaltechnik, ETH Zürich — Fall 2025
• Teaching assistant, Netzwerke und Schaltungen II, ETH Zürich — Spring 2025

Education

• B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich — 2024 → 2027
• Matura, MNG Rämibühl — 2024 Thesis 6/6, amongst the best in the Canton of Zürich.

Awards

• Outstanding high school thesis, MNG Rämibühl — 2024
• 1st place, National Mathematics Olympiad, Colombia — 2019, 2018
• 3rd place, National Mathematics Olympiad, Colombia — 2017

Library

• Notes on Sunday robotics — 2026-08-22
• Things I'm doing and why I'm doing them — 2026-08-21
• Do Meaningful Things - The Pursuit Of Non-Triviality — 2026-07-01
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