Rohit John Varghese is the director of systems engineering and product at Contoro Robotics, a company developing AI-driven logistics robots for shipping container unloading. He has been part of the founding team of two successful startups that together have raised over $25 million in funding. His work spans exoskeletons, human–robot interaction, teleoperation, and AI-enabled robotic systems, and he is always curious to explore any domain to its first principles.
Rohit has served as faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught graduate courses in robotics, and as an industry mentor for National Science Foundation (NSF) programs. He also leads the development of the Robot MCP server, an open-source project that connects AI models with robotic systems using Model Context Protocol.