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Nicholas Bergantz

Founder

Lab automation

Now Director, Robotics Systems (advisory role) · Strawberry Robotics

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Nicholas Bergantz is a robotics engineer. From January to June 2026 he built the Automation Hardware team at Periodic Labs, growing it from 2 to 9 engineers and setting up the control stack and automation pipelines for its labs' instruments. Before that he led robotics and automation architecture for product validation at Apple (2020 to 2025), was a design authority for robotic platforms at Applied Materials (2013 to 2020) and a robotics engineer at Novellus Systems, and co-founded TipTap. Since December 2025 he has advised Strawberry Robotics. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (BSE) and Santa Clara University (master's). He is an inventor on robot patents assigned to Applied Materials and payment patents assigned to TipTap.

Path

Current

  1. Strawberry Robotics2025 – presentDirector, Robotics Systems (advisory role)

Previous

  1. Sensible Robotics2024 – 2026Advisory Board Member
  2. Periodic Labs2026Member of Technical Staff; built the Automation Hardware team (2 to 9 engineers) and its lab-instrument automation and control stack
  3. TipTap Inc2018 – 2026Co-founder and CTO
  4. Apple2020 – 2025Technical Lead, Robotics and Automation Architecture (AR/VR product validation)
  5. Applied Materials2013 – 2020Member of Technical Staff, Robotics; design authority for robotic platforms
  6. Kepler Systems2016 – 2017Founder and CTO (electrodynamic plasma thruster)
  7. Novellus Systems (now Lam Research)2010 – 2013Robotics Engineer, wafer-handling robots
  8. BAE Systems2007 – 2010Mechatronics Engineer

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