Ember Robotics is building camera diagnostics tools for robots and automotive. We worked on optimizing camera performance at Tesla Autopilot and now we're building software that takes mitigating camera failures from hours to minutes.
Camera diagnostics for robots
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### Camera diagnostics for robots

Ember Robotics is building camera diagnostics tools for robots and automotive. We worked on optimizing camera performance at Tesla Autopilot and now we're building software that takes mitigating camera failures from hours to minutes.



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Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

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### Shivani Mouleeswaran, Founder

Co-founder and CEO @ Ember Robotics. Previously worked at Tesla Autopilot optimizing camera performance for autonomy. Shivani has spent 5 years working on camera systems for autonomous robots and co-founded Ember to improve to the pains she's seen around dealing with robot hardware and system reliability. Fun fact she once earned the title of Camera Queen!



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### Ritika Shrivastava, Founder

Ritika is a roboticist who loves helping robots see 🕶! She is a proud UC Berkeley alumna (B.S. EECS '21 & M.S. EECS '22) 🐻, where she researched and taught about computer vision and robotics. Formerly a computer vision engineer at Tesla Autopilot, Ritika is excited to build tools that help roboticists! In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis 🎾, building gizmos, and reading 📖!



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**tldr; Got camera problems? We’ve got solutions.**
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[Ember]( builds software to monitor and resolve robot camera issues - so you can reduce vision failures from the source.

Is robot camera reliability or degraded vision driving you nuts? Book a demo [here]( or reach out to us at [founders@emberrobotics.com](mailto:founders@emberrobotics.com)!

### **The problem**

We’ve spent years working on vision systems for autonomous robots and found similar issues everywhere:



☐ Robotics companies work on lean teams that have to do lots of things super fast - **hardware reliability is often secondary to core product features**

☐ **Camera failures cause large fires** because they float up the stack to critically damage perception, controls, and safety

☐ **Digging through layers of software / hardware to figure out what went wrong is painful** (ex. sometimes you spend hours goose-chasing a “perception issue” just to find a loose cable)

### **Our solution**



**A camera diagnostics framework that ties in real-time data, logs, and reports to contextualize your robot’s vision health.** Support the full life-cycle of your robot with features like:

✅ Out-of-the-box tracking for common issues (disconnection, frame drops, time sync)

💬 Automated suggestions for error resolution

⏱️ Real-time alerts

🖌️ Image quality analysis tools to optimize computer vision

📈 Historical data analysis for predictive maintenance

### **Try it out: Plug-and-play camera testing**

Bench-test cameras or diagnose issues in the field with one easy tool. **Fill a config file, launch our service, and get fast metrics on camera health.**  
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Currently we support Intel® RealSense™ D400 cameras and ROS - more cameras and pub-sub models coming soon!

### **Meet the team**



Hi, we are [Shivani]( & [Ritika]( We built software at Tesla Autopilot to optimize camera performance for autonomy. We’ve covered the camera stack end-to-end (low-latency image capture, real-time camera monitoring, online camera calibration, multi-trip reconstruction, and SLAM) - we’re passionate about helping robots see!

### **Our ask**

Is robot camera reliability or degraded vision driving you nuts? Book a demo [here]( or reach out to us at [founders@emberrobotics.com](mailto:founders@emberrobotics.com)!

If you know anyone working on robots, drones, or other multi-camera systems (surveillance, manufacturing, etc.) we would love a warm intro.

And for those who are just generally robot-curious - always happy to chat!

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