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About

Obinna Edeh

For 25 years my work has been getting large systems to work in the real world. That meant leading a nationwide deployment, running engineering teams, and coordinating field crews and vendors across multiple markets, where a plan only counted once it was working on site.

That work taught me that the hard part is rarely the design. It is integration, measurement, and the discipline to operate a system after launch day.

Physical AI has the same problem. Models that look finished in simulation meet sensor noise, thermal limits, latency budgets, and operators who need to trust them. I started EmbodiedEdge to work on that gap in the open: on the lab's own robots and Jetson hardware, with measured results and an honest status on what works and what doesn't yet.

Track record

Deployment leadership, applied to Physical AI

  • Engineering Manager, 2018 to 2024

    Led three engineering teams and directed 20 field crews and 10 vendors across three markets. Cut delivery cycle time by 25% through automation and analytics.

  • First-of-its-kind national wireless deployment, 2016 to 2018

    Delivered the nation's first pre-5G mobile and fixed wireless deployment on CBRS spectrum, cutting deployment time and operating cost by about half.

  • M.S. Applied Artificial Intelligence

    University of San Diego, in progress.

Foundations

What the lab works with

  • ROS 2
  • NVIDIA Jetson
  • Isaac Sim
  • OpenUSD
  • Perception and localization
  • Edge inference
  • Telemetry and observability
  • Human-in-the-loop operations

Contact

Let's talk.

Open to conversations about Physical AI leadership roles, research collaborations, and taking systems from prototype to deployment.