The U.S. needs millions of new homes. Traditional construction is brittle, capital-intensive, and geographically fragmented. It can't scale to meet that need. I co-founded Reframe Systems to prove that software-driven robotics can deliver high-performance, resilient housing to any neighborhood, on any lot, at scale.

Reframe Systems, Feb 2023 — Present

I co-founded Reframe with Vikas Enti (CEO) and Aaron Small (Head of Operations and Digital AI). I lead Manufacturing, Software, and Robotics, building the full technology stack that powers our microfactory system from the ground up.

Our software-defined, highly automated microfactories produce net-zero homes faster, cheaper, and with a fraction of the carbon of traditional construction. Each microfactory is a compact 50,000 sq ft facility that can launch in roughly 100 days and produce about 500 homes per year, putting manufacturing capacity directly into the communities that need it.

Resilience Is Our Guiding Principle

Resilience organizes every product, technology, and business decision at Reframe. Not sustainability as a marketing label. Resilience as an engineering standard.

Our model lowers the cost of zero-energy-ready homes to baseline economics while minimizing embodied carbon in fabrication. Our homes achieve durability and high performance through off-site construction in precision-controlled environments, eliminating the field errors and variability of traditional building.

The Reframe Building System is adaptable across neighborhoods, complex sites, hazard zones, evolving energy codes, and the regulatory complexity of 50 state codes and roughly 30,000 zoning jurisdictions.

Physical AI and our microfactory network combine into systems that scale without retooling. A market demand shift requires only a software configuration change.

In the Press

Previously

Amazon Robotics, Aug 2016 — Jan 2023

Technical Lead for the Sparrow Program, Amazon Robotics' flagship item manipulation system. I built vision-based robotic solutions for singulation, dense packing, item identification, and damage detection, deployed across hundreds of thousands of robotic units in Amazon's fulfillment network.

WPI-CMU DARPA Robotics Challenge Team, Dec 2013 — Jun 2015

Manipulation Lead for the WPI-CMU team in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. I led full-body motion planning for the 30-DoF Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot, coordinating a team of graduate and undergraduate students through the DRC Trials and Finals.

Dynamic Legged Systems Lab — Italian Institute of Technology, Jul 2015 — Jul 2016

Built the software architecture for the HyQ and HyQ2Max quadruped robots, integrating real-time controllers, state estimation, and simulation on Xenomai Linux.

Education

Patents — 17 Granted US Patents

All patents issued while at Amazon Robotics, covering robotic grasping, end-of-arm tooling, manipulation systems, and safety. View all on Google Patents

Robotic Grasping & End-of-Arm Tools

Manipulation Systems & Robotics Infrastructure

Safety & Calibration

Publications

Get in touch

Interested in Reframe Systems, robotics, or just want to connect? Reach me at felipe.polido@gmail.com or find me on LinkedIn.