Amazon Robotics

This summer I worked as a Hardware Development Intern at Amazon Robotics, owning mechanical design on prototype hardware and building quick-turn hardware for the team’s software researchers. My work is covered by an NDA, so the details below stay general.

Key contributions

Prototype revision. Owned mechanical execution for a prototype revision. I redesigned the housing around cable routing for rotating actuators, defining wire-slack requirements, adding accessible cable holders to prevent pinching and shaft wrap, and coordinating connector placement with a concurrent PCB redesign, all while designing for ease of assembly and maintenance. I also weighed full-scope design fixes against delivery deadlines in tradeoff discussions with program leadership, which shaped the team’s engineering priorities.

Manipulator design. Owned the design of a machined manipulator as a V1 demo prototype. I delivered an initial design, revised the architecture after design review feedback, validated component strength with FEA while improving strength-to-weight ratio, and finalized actuator selection, sourcing, and the BOM.

Quick-turn demo hardware. Acted as the go-to fabricator for software researchers across many concurrent requests: designing Vention test stands validated with force calculations, 3D printing parts, wire harnessing an end effector, and setting up compute and robot arms on new stands for demos.