Alessandro Maniscalco

I am a junior at Upenn's M&T program dual majoring in mechanical engineering and finance. Giving the max for the coming robotics revolution.

Currently exploring robot deployment and data for worldwide manufacturing processes.

Work

Rhoda AI

Engineering intern · Summer 2026

Worked across hardware and AI, fullstack from teleoperation data to inference. Post trained for new tasks and changed full process for longer capabilities.

Two robot arms handling a box at Rhoda AI

Built Robotics

Field engineering intern + AI & Perception Part time · 2025–26

Built an attachment that lets one operator load steel posts, previously a job for three or four people. It now loads over 20,000 pounds a day. Later worked on AI and perception data pipelines.

The steel-post loading attachment I built at Built Robotics

World models

Independent project · Spring 2026

Built an action-conditioned video model on a 3080, learning through papers and experiments.

A bronze Roman wolf on deep red, above the words Roma non fu costruita in un giorno