Our Team

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Raunaq Bhirangi

Co-founder & CEO

Raunaq Bhirangi

ex-Meta · PhD, Carnegie Mellon Robotics

8+ years pioneering touch-aware robotics, including foundational work at Meta on scalable sensing systems for dexterous manipulation and embodied AI. Created ReSkin, AnySkin, and eFlesh — a family of open-source touch sensors that are among the most widely-adopted in robotics.

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Benjamin Eisner

Co-founder & co-CTO

Benjamin Eisner

ex-Tesla, ex-DeepMind · PhD, Carnegie Mellon Robotics

8+ years of research in robot manipulation and 3D scene understanding. Deep expertise in teaching robots to perceive the geometry of the physical world and use it to manipulate objects. Best Paper Finalist at RSS 2022 for foundational work on spatial reasoning that informs Index's perception stack.

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Siddhant Haldar

Co-founder & co-CTO

Siddhant Haldar

ex-NVIDIA · PhD, NYU Courant

5+ years at the frontier of imitation learning and reinforcement learning — the techniques that let robots learn from human demonstration and trial-and-error. Best Paper Award at RSS 2023 and Best Paper Finalist at CoRL 2022 for advances in teaching robots to rapidly acquire new real-world skills.

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Roshail Gerard

Co-founder & COO

Roshail Gerard

ex-indie Semiconductor · MS, Stanford

6+ years building real-world sensing and control systems. Deep expertise in firmware and mechatronics, with a proven track record of guiding new products through their entire lifecycle — from the R&D lab to final production.

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Tess Hellebrekers

Member of Technical Staff

Tess Hellebrekers

ex-Microsoft, ex-Meta · PhD, Carnegie Mellon Robotics

10+ years of research spanning tactile sensing, soft robotics, dexterous manipulation, and learned policies. Deep expertise across the full stack — from sensing hardware to systems integration to real-world deployment. Co-creator of ReSkin, a widely-adopted magnetic tactile skin used across robotics research.

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Mara Levy

Member of Technical Staff

Mara Levy

ex-Amazon · PhD, University of Maryland

5+ years at the intersection of computer vision and robot learning. Deep expertise in teaching robots to see, understand, and act on the world around them — with a focus on systems that generalize to new objects and environments from minimal training data.

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Aditya Shankar

Founding Commercial Head

Aditya Shankar

ex-Bain, ex-Amazon · MBA, Columbia

10+ years at the intersection of strategy, product, and operations, leading large-scale transformations in AI, analytics, and advanced technologies. Deep expertise in GTM and operational excellence.

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