Harrison Saperstein
Robotics Engineer · AI Forward
Senior Software Verification Engineer at Medtronic, specialized in surgical robotic software. Outside of work, I'm building an RL pipeline from data generation in Blender through training in NVIDIA's Isaac Lab. Along the way, I'm exploring agentic architectures and solution development.
Current project
Robotic DnD
DnD is a game of chance, and control is an illusion. Training a robot to hand me the right die felt like the next best thing.
Tools & Frameworks
What I reach for, and what I've actually built with it.
Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab
GPU-parallel RL environments, camera sensors, and differential-IK control - the platform under the Franka demo.
See it in a project →Blender
Headless and fully scripted: procedural dice assets, randomized scenes, and COCO-annotated synthetic datasets.
See it in a project →PyTorch
Where my training runs - PPO policies for the Franka work, YOLO detectors for the dice pipeline.
See it in a project →TensorFlow
Real-time object detection on video streams during my Hubbell R&D internship, accelerated with TensorRT.
OpenCV
Classical perception where it earns its keep: ground-plane removal, shape classification, tracking.
See it in a project →ROS 2
Kinematics and control work on a real 6-DOF arm.
See it in a project →Claude Code + Copilot CLI
Multi-agent workflows with spec, plan, and review gates - most of this site shipped through them, and the same discipline runs on Copilot CLI at work.
See it in a project →Google Cloud
Compute Engine for training, Cloud Storage for every run, Cloud Run for the TensorBoard that reads them.
See it in a project →KiCad
Schematic capture and PCB layout for the keyboard prototype board.
See it in a project →Models & Methods
Languages & Environments
Experience
5
years in surgical robotics
MS + BS
Robotics Engineering at WPI
15+
manual processes automated
WEEKS → DAYS
per verification cycle
Senior Software Verification Engineer · July 2024 - Present
Hugo is Medtronic's robotic-assisted surgery platform. I architect the automated testing frameworks that verify it - migrating legacy manual processes to automated pipelines, building Python test tooling that cut verification cycles from weeks to days, and mentoring engineers on automation and troubleshooting.
Software Verification Engineer II · Aug 2021 - July 2024
Built the automated test framework (Python + Squish) and the system-in-loop and software-in-loop verification protocols.
Machine Learning Intern
Real-time object detection on video streams with TensorFlow, OpenCV, and TensorRT.
WPI - MS Robotics Engineering '21 · BS Robotics Engineering '20
Download resumeProjects
Procedural Dice Asset Generator
A headless-Blender pipeline that procedurally generates a labeled library of TTRPG dice, grown into a full synthetic-to-real object detection pipeline: rendered scenes, COCO annotations, and a trained YOLO detector.
Agentic AI Experiments
A running log of experiments with agentic AI tools and workflows.
6-DOF Robotic Arm
Exploration of the kinematics and control of the Annin-Robotics AR4 6-DoF robotic arm using ROS2.
About
Hi, I'm Harrison (Harry) Saperstein. I graduated from WPI with my MS/BS in Robotics Engineering in 2021. WPI introduced me to what it means to be robotic, and somewhere between solving for the kinematics of serial manipulators and watching them actually move, I grew an itch that's been hard to satisfy ever since.
By day I verify software for a surgical robot; nights and weekends I build the projects on this page. This site is where I scratch the itch: solving problems, making robots move, and continuing to grow as an engineer.
Off the clock
What I'm into when I'm not building.
Winters
Skiing.
Summers
Golf and a rec softball league.
Boston sports
The Sox, Pats, B's and C's.
Maker YouTube
Adam Savage's Tested, Jeremy Fielding, StuffMadeHere, Nerdforge, Alec Steele.
Science YouTube
Veritasium, Smarter Every Day.
Tech YouTube
Linus Tech Tips, MKBHD, JayzTwoCents.