Ahmed Wafik.

A roboticist building machines that work alongside people, with a decade across collaborative arms, dual-arm and mobile manipulation, service and healthcare robots, and the R&D work at the edge of those fields.

Core founding-team member at KBee AG and later Franka Emika, part of the lineage behind a generation of force-sensitive, torque-controlled collaborative robots. Most recently led the Innovation Team at Agile Robots in Munich.

The technical core has been steady: modeling and simulation of redundant manipulators, compliant force-sensitive control, kinesthetic teaching and learning-from-demonstration, and whole-body control for humanoids and mobile platforms. Healthcare and wellness robotics where compliance and safety are first-class, including the Aescape custom control system in 2019–2020.

Recent direction. From early 2023 through April 2026 I took a self-funded sabbatical, studying agentic AI and prototyping infrastructure at the intersection of robotics, autonomous systems, and creative tooling. Most of that time was spent in Southeast Asia, including a two-year residency that left me with functional Thai. The technical thread became sylab, a multi-machine lab platform now in active development, and the foundation for the consulting work I started in May 2026.