Sachin Chitta, Ph.D., is the Founder & CEO of Kinema Systems, a startup in the Bay Area developing robotic solutions for logistics. He was previously Associate Director of Robotics Systems and Software in the Robotics Program at SRI International.  At SRI, he led the development of software for a new robotic surgical platform.  This technology was licensed to , a joint venture between Ethicon, J&J and Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) ().

Sachin previously coordinated the MoveIt! software platform - the premier open-source platform for manipulation and mobile manipulation in Robotics.

Sachin Chitta was a manager and research scientist at Willow Garage from 2007-2013 and was a core member of the team that developed the PR2 robot and the Robot Operating System (ROS). He initiated and led the development of the MoveIt!, Arm Navigation and ROS Control software platforms to enable advanced manipulation capabilities for any robot. This software is now used by hundreds of developers, researchers and companies around the world. Sachin co-founded , a joint venture between Willow Garage, MEKA and SRI.

Sachin was a finalist for the 2013 World Technology Award in the IT Software (Individual) category. Sachin was the keynote speaker at ROSCON 2013. His work has won best paper awards at ICAR (2009), ASME IDETC (2008) and been nominated for a best paper award at ICRA 2011. His work on the Open Motion Planning Library (in collaboration with Lydia Kavraki's group at Rice University) won the OSS World Challenge Grand Prize in 2012.

Sachin received his Ph.D. from the Grasp Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. His research interests include mobile manipulation, motion planning and learning for manipulation.