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ROBOTICS CELLSO—ARM / TEST 01
SYSTEM STANDBY

AI, ROBOTICS & SIMULATION STUDIO

WATERMELONSON

APPLIED AI RESEARCH / ROBOTICS / SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

FROM PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCTION.

VIEW SELECTED WORK ↓GET IN TOUCH ↘
RESEARCH THAT SHIPS / HEIDELBERG, GERMANYSCROLL TO ENTER ↓

SELECTED WORK

RESEARCH THAT SHIPS.

A simulation people use every day, built and run in-house.

01BROWSER SIMULATIONLIVE
Saturn and its rings rendered in Luna, with the Milky Way behind it

LUNA

50K / MONTHVIEW PROJECT ↗

N-BODY PHYSICS / SCIENTIFIC DATA / EDUCATION

04INTERACTIVE COURSEIN DEVELOPMENT
Lesson two of the course — the SO-ARM101 in browser MuJoCo beside reach, swing and height controls

ROBOT CONTROL LESSONS

3 / 5 LESSONSVIEW PROJECT ↗

MUJOCO / CONTROL / TEACHING

CAPABILITIES

DIFFICULT SYSTEMS, MADE REAL.

A small studio in Heidelberg. We build our own products, run our own robotics research, and take on a limited number of outside collaborations.

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AI RESEARCH & ENGINEERING

Agents, evaluation, inference, retrieval, applied machine learning, and experimental prototypes.

OUTPUTSEvaluation systems / production AI architecture / deployed services
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ROBOTICS & AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Simulation, perception, planning, control, robot learning, and hardware integration.

OUTPUTSSimulation environments / data pipelines / hardware-software integration
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Product architecture, rapid prototyping, scientific software, real-time systems, technical leadership, and production delivery.

OUTPUTSTechnical roadmaps / production systems / interactive tools / embedded leadership
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Technical ideas turned into accessible stories through video, interactive demonstrations, and long-form write-ups.

OUTPUTSResearch pipelines / visual explainers / YouTube productions / interactive articles

ARCHIVE

INDEX OF THINGS

A—001LUNABROWSER SIMULATIONLIVE↗A—002DIONECREATIVE TOOLLIVE↗

OPEN TO SELECT COLLABORATIONS

01 / TECHNICAL DISCOVERY & PROTOTYPING02 / EMBEDDED ENGINEERING OR TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP03 / END-TO-END SYSTEM DELIVERY04 / RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

THE STUDIO / WHO WE ARE

RESEARCH. PRODUCTS. EXPLANATION.

Watermelonson is Ali Karpuzoglu, with creative support from Marola Vaes. Ali studied Autonomous Systems at TU Darmstadt, led development at an AI education startup, and now runs the studio's engineering and research.

We are most useful on work that does not fit cleanly into one discipline. We like understanding the whole system, shaping the direction, and still being able to build the critical parts ourselves.