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Team

Built by robotics operators who know the gap between demos and deployment.

10Things is led by Kimate Richards and a deployment-minded team focused on simulation-first robotics, agentic tooling, control workflows, safety, and the practical systems work required to move robots into the real world.

Kimate Richards, founder of 10Things

Founder / Robotics & embodied AI

Kimate Richards

Kimate Richards founded 10Things after decades inside robotics, cloud, simulation, embodied AI, and spatial computing. He has spent 30 years in robotics, led strategic engagements at Amazon Web Services, and spent more than five years there supporting robotics, spatial computing, embodied AI, and physical AI.

His work centers on the part of robotics that usually breaks between demo and deployment: simulation, integration, control, safety, behavior, analytics, continuous learning, and operational readiness.

Kimate’s public work spans NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, Omniverse, Warp/Newton, OpenUSD, ROS2, behavior cloning, synthetic data, teleoperation, bimanual manipulation, spatial computing, and human-robot interaction workflows.

NVIDIA Omniverse Ambassador: Kimate is listed by NVIDIA as an Omniverse Ambassador in Robot Simulation — “building scalable platforms with Omniverse and OpenUSD to move robotics from prototype to production.” Link.

Mentorship & student sponsorship

Kimate also invests in the next generation of robotics builders.

CSU Chico capstone sponsor

Robotics tool changer and holder

Kimate sponsored graduating mechanical engineering students building a low-cost robotics tool device changer and holder intended to save training time for end effectors and purpose-built robot functions.

Student robotics sponsor

Autonomous mobile robot platform

Student work credited Kimate as a sponsor supporting an autonomous mobile robot project involving ROS2, electrical hardware, embedded systems, and assistive upper-body robotics.

Internship mentorship

Embodied AI and robot learning

Kimate mentored student work on bimanual manipulation, behavior cloning, synthetic data, and sim-first workflows — turning advanced robotics research into practical learning loops.

CEO expertise

Why Kimate is a seasoned robotics operator.

Talks, podcasts & livestreams

Podcast

Building the Android OS of Robotics with Kimate Richards

Pixel Reconstruct interview on deploying robots safely, reliably, and at scale — including sim-to-real transfer, continuous learning, and safety-first design.

YouTube
NVIDIA Omniverse livestream

CAD-to-Control Robot Simulation With NVIDIA Omniverse

OpenUSD, Omniverse, Isaac Sim, CAD-to-control workflows, simulation fidelity, and sim-to-real robotics.

YouTube
NVIDIA Robotics Office Hours

Isaac Automator and agentic robotics tools

NVIDIA Robotics office hours appearance previewing how 10Things makes robotics easier with agentic tooling.

YouTube
Conference interview

Generative AI in Humanoid Robotics & Future Systems

Humanoids Summit interview on generative AI, humanoid robot development, training, and future systems.

YouTube
AWE XR talk

Scan Today, Build Tomorrow!

Heidi Buck and Kimate Richards on AWS spatial computing, 3D workloads, Magic Leap 2, and Boston Dynamics Spot.

YouTube
Podcast

Robo Success safety conversation

Conversation on robotics safety and why real-world robots need systems that fail safely, not dangerously.

Source

Conferences & events

NVIDIA GTC

GTC developer community and robotics ecosystem

NVIDIA GTC livestreams, Omniverse community appearances, and robotics ecosystem coverage.

Livestream
CES / Eureka Park

10Things robot control demonstrations

Teleoperation, cloud-based control, Gemini, GR00T, PI 0.5, Isaac Sim/Lab, and Enactic OpenArm demos.

Example demo
Humanoids Summit

Generative AI and humanoid robotics

Conference appearances and interviews on generative AI, humanoid robots, and deployment-oriented robotics systems.

Interview
AWE XR

Spatial computing, AWS, Magic Leap, and Spot

Conference talk and demos showing live robot telemetry and robot control through spatial computing interfaces.

Talk
Global robotics

MODEX, World Robot Conference, IROS, and robotics summits

Ongoing robotics ecosystem participation across logistics, humanoids, research, and international robotics events.

WRC video

Publications & profiles

AWS Physical AI

Embodied AI Blog Series Part 1

A scalable cloud workflow for training and iterating on embodied AI models.

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AWS Physical AI

Build a spatial object tracking pipeline with Create ML on Amazon EC2 Mac

Apple Vision Pro object tracking workflows using Create ML and cloud infrastructure.

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AWS Physical AI

Getting Started with Vision Pro and AWS

Spatial computing development patterns connecting Apple Vision Pro and AWS services.

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Medium

Robot Learning: World Sensing

Aria / Realbotix B-Series, seeing, hearing, remembering, computer vision, voice agents, ROS2, and HRI.

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Medium

Robot Learning Priorities, Social Standards & User Context

Unified user context, multimodal sensing, memory, and interaction design for robot learning.

Read
Profile

Distinguished Alum Kimate Richards

Chico State profile covering Kimate’s engineering background and career path.

Read

Selected technical demos

Isaac Sim Assist + ROS2AI scene diagnostics for Isaac SimNewton physics + generative articulationsOrange picking with Gemini Robotics + Isaac LabRealbotix Aria MCP Agentic ROS2Control Code Intro — 10ThingsIsaac Sim vs RViz / Gazebo / MuJoCo / GenesisSpot + Apple Vision Pro + GenAI

Draft note: final publication should confirm titles, preferred ordering, and any logo/affiliation language with Kimate before launch.

Oliver Choy, co-founder of 10Things

Co-founder / Business architecture

Oliver Choy

Oliver Choy brings nearly two decades of technical consulting and delivery leadership to 10Things. He has led complex enterprise technology programs across cloud, data, AI, digital platforms, healthcare, retail, media, and financial services — translating ambiguous technical opportunities into operating models, delivery systems, and customer-facing offerings.

Oliver led a portfolio of senior technical advisors across dozens of enterprise engagements at Snowflake, with a focus on operating cadence, delivery quality, reliability, and repeatable consulting excellence. Previously, he held Director-level platform engineering leadership roles at Slalom, focused primarily on AWS, cloud architecture, data platforms, and high-performing technical delivery teams.

His startup experience includes involvement with 500 Startups and years spent helping early-stage ideas become clearer products, sharper operating models, and more credible go-to-market motions.

At 10Things, Oliver focuses on business architecture, operational cadence, and execution discipline — helping turn the founder’s deep robotics expertise into a company that can sell, deliver, learn, and scale.

Extended bench

Engineering depth and hardware access for real robot deployments.

Engineering bench

Robotics, mechatronics, software, electrical, and systems engineers

10Things brings together roboticists, mechatronics engineers, simulation specialists, controls developers, software engineers, electrical engineers, and systems engineers who understand sensors, embedded constraints, integration risk, and field readiness.

Hardware partners

Robotic parts, platforms, and vendor access

10Things works with multiple hardware vendors to help customers source the robotic parts, components, and platforms needed for prototypes, pilots, and deployment-oriented builds.