Erik Schluntz is cofounder and CTO of Cobalt Robotics, a company that builds autonomous indoor physical security robots to work alongside human guards and provide a safer environment. Before co-founding Cobalt, Erik worked on SpaceX’s Flight Software Team in 2015 where he led testing for a new fuel system on the Falcon 9 rocket. He also worked on Google X’s Smart Contact Lens project and prototyped new uses for low power electronics in 2014. While at Harvard, he founded his first startup, Posmetrics, which was accepted to Y Combinator’s winter class of 2013 and later acquired. He returned to Harvard University and graduated with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering. Forbes Magazine named Erik to their 30 Under 30 list for 2018.
