Arne Nordmann
PhD / Dr.-Ing. · VP Technology & Innovation at NEURA Robotics
As a robotics enthusiast fascinated by the design, integration, and analysis of complex, software-intensive - and potentially safety-critical - systems, my journey has led me through academia and industry. During my PhD at Bielefeld University's Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab), I dove into model-driven engineering applications for collaborative robots, industrial robots, and mobile robots.
My journey continued at Bosch Corporate Research, where I navigated the complexities of safety-critical software-intensive systems, including architectures for highly automated driving and robotics. My professional background and interest in strategic topics led me to coordinate the euRobotics Topic Group on Software Engineering, System Integration, System Engineering.
Since May 2022 I've led engineering at NEURA Robotics, and since June 2025 I've set technology direction as Vice President Technology & Innovation - connecting engineering, business, and long-term innovation so our technology scales in the real world.
Experience
Vice President Technology & Innovation
- presentTogether with the engineering teams, work on making physical AI genuinely multi-modal through NEURA's Perception-Language-Action (PLA) approach, and, through NEURA Gym and new partnerships, on the ecosystem that lets cognitive, humanoid robots get deployed. Also align the technology roadmap with company strategy and lead technical due diligence in investment rounds.
Full story →Head of Engineering
- 05/2025Coordinated the NEURA Robotics engineering departments and led decision-making across engineering disciplines, integrating software, hardware, and AI into NEURA's cognitive robotics platform. Led technical due diligence for NEURA Robotics' investment rounds.
Full story →Research Engineer
- 05/2022Applied research across automotive and robotics projects, specializing in model-based safety assessment and cloud communication in automotive, and robotics systems engineering for intralogistics and household robotics.
Full story →Research Associate
- 09/2015Model-based software & systems engineering for robotics and domain-specific languages, with motion control for humanoid, mobile, and quadruped robots, and compliant industrial robots.
Full story →Research Assistant
- 12/2008Internship in the Robot Technology department, focused on probabilistic robotics and physical simulation of robot scenarios.
Full story →Education
Bosch Talent Pool
- 2022Management trainee program; deepened skills through seminars on self-reflection, communication, and conflict management.
Dr.-Ing. (PhD), Robotics Software & Systems Engineering
- 2015Thesis: "Modeling of Motion Primitive Architectures using Domain-Specific Languages", submitted August 2015.
Full story →Dipl.-Ing., Electrical Engineering
- 2009Specialization in control theory and robotics. Thesis: "Überwachtes Lernen bildbasierter Roboterverhalten" (Supervised Learning of Vision-Based Robot Behaviors), July 2009.
Full story →Student Assistant
- 2008Undergraduate research assistant, alongside early studies at TU Dortmund.
Service & talks
Topic Group Coordinator
- presentCoordinates the "Software Engineering, Systems Integration and Systems Engineering" topic group: organizes community-building events and workshops, curates the topic group, and provides input to the European Robotics & AI Strategic Research Agenda.
Thesis Supervisor
- presentSupervised three master's theses in robotics and automotive; co-supervises an industrial PhD with Prof. Lars Grunske, Humboldt University Berlin.
Panelist
Most recently on "Best Practices for Robotic Software Engineering", alongside Robert Bocchino (NASA) and Allison Thackston (Waymo).
Blogger
- presentFounder and main author of the German robotics blog botzeit.de. Runs the international robotics account @planetrobotics (~14K followers) and the German-language @robotik (400+ followers).