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Built by operators
who've done the work.

Common Vector Robotics is built in Detroit by founders with manufacturing, deployment, and hardware experience — the kind of background that produces robots, not pitch decks.

01 · Founders

The founding
team.

Arnold Kadiu — CVR co-founder, portrait
Founder & CEO
Arnold Kadiu

Built and shipped delivery, infrastructure, and industrial robots, Bobcat conversions, and electric ATVs at Intermode — bootstrapped against subsidized Chinese supply. Six Ford patents. Led the U-M solar car under budget.

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Rajanatha Shettigara — CVR co-founder, portrait
Cofounder & VP Engineering
Rajanatha Shettigara

Ran engineering at Velodyne LiDAR through the IPO and volume ramp. 28 years across silicon (ST, MegaChips) and sensors. Owns the electronics half of the stack.

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02 · Engineering

The engineering
team.

Perception & Autonomy
Chao-Jen Wang

Robotics engineer working on perception and autonomy. MS ECE (Robotics), University of Michigan.

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AI Software
Gavin Bender

Builds CVR's software brain — internal tools, operator interfaces, and the AI agents that run behind the company and its robots.

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Embedded Hardware
Chloe Irgang

Board-level electronics, sensor integration, and embedded hardware across the platform.

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Mechanical Design
Zach Small

Designs the platform from concept through build — chassis, structures, and mechanical systems.

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Field Robotics
Sivasanjay Nachimuthu

Brings up and integrates robots in the field. ROS, SLAM, and LiDAR; system bring-up, testing, and validation across the platform.

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Firmware & Controls
Kirubakkar Ravichandran

Owns firmware and robotics across the CVR stack. Ex-Bosch automotive electronics — AUTOSAR, embedded systems, and computer vision.

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Manufacturing
Amilcar Venebra-Montagner

Owns fabrication, assembly, and production processes that turn CVR designs into fielded hardware.

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03 · Hiring

Build the next generation of
American robotics with us.

CVR is hiring across hardware engineering, electronics, sensors, manufacturing, and field operations. If you want to build robots that ship — not robots that demo — get in touch.

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A CVR engineer opens the service panels on a prototype ground robot at Newlab Detroit
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