Team Lead — Foundation Models for Robotics @ Agile Robots SE, Munich
Building intelligent robots that see and act.
I'm an AI engineer working on multimodal machine learning and robotics. My work focuses on vision-language and vision-action models that connect perception with decision making. I enjoy building complete ML systems — from large-scale model training to real-time inference infrastructure and robotics integration.
Years at Agile Robots
Original Projects
Patent + Publication
Experience
View allTeam Lead — Foundation Models for Robotics
Agile Robots SEMar 2026 — Present
Tech Lead — Foundation Models for Intelligent Agents
Agile Robots SEAug 2025 — Mar 2026
Senior Deep Learning Engineer
Agile Robots SEDec 2023 — Sep 2025
Projects
View allTraining a VLM for robot understanding — multi-GPU pipeline with Hugging Face models, designed for real-world robotic perception and instruction following.
From perception to manipulation — a Vision-Language-Action model that converts visual understanding into precise robot actions for real-world manipulation tasks.
Async ML Inference System
PrivateReal-time ML inference using asynchronous WebSocket architecture — streaming multimodal data (images, tensors, text) for low-latency robot control.
Rewrote the async ML inference server from Python to Rust for performance-critical robotics applications — with Python bindings for interoperability.
Implementation of RT-1 architecture for robotic manipulation — transformer-based policy for real-world task execution from demonstrations.
Scripts and pipelines for fine-tuning large language models with LoRA and QLoRA on custom datasets.
Skills
View allMachine Learning & AI
Robotics AI
Systems & Infrastructure
Programming
Publications & Patents
Tissue Segmentation in Histologic Images of Intracranial Aneurysm Wall
A. Niemann, A. Talagini, P. Kandapagari, B. Preim, S. Saalfeld
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, Vol. 26, 101307
4 citations
Animal Physical Parameter Estimation by Image Processing
P. Kandapagari, et al.
European Patent Application No. 23207432.8
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