Our Team

We are a group of passionate individuals with deep technical, R&D, and operations expertise, dedicated to building the best logistics robots.

Nick Hafner

CEO & Founder

Nick is the visionary behind Refined Robotics, leading the team with innovation and determination. During his PhD, he developed our core technology and has been refining it ever since. With 4 years of robotics startup experience, he has a deep understanding of the industry and its challenges.

In his spare time, he likes Salsa dancing and rock music.

Yui Bishago

CTO - Hardware & Co-Founder

Yui leads the hardware team, ensuring that our robots are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability. His Master's in Fine Mechanics was at Tohoku University, and he has previously co-founded a hardware startup, TsuCre, which ran a successful crowd-funding campaign.

Yui loves video games, and is always up for a deep discussion about the latest RPGs.