Nikita Rudin

Nikita Rudin is the co-founder and CEO of Flexion. Rudin completed his Ph.D. at the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich while working at NVIDIA, where he focused on large-scale reinforcement learning, control systems, and robotic simulation. At NVIDIA, Rudin was part of the team behind Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab, simulation tools now widely adopted across the robotics industry. Now he is leading Flexion, which recently raised $50 million from DST/NVentures to build the general-purpose “brain” for humanoid robots.