Summary
Andrew “AJ” Meyer is the co-founder and CEO of Pickle Robot, which builds “Physical AI” systems that autonomously unload trucks and trailers at warehouse loading docks. An MIT-trained electrical engineer, he founded the engineering consultancy Leaf Labs and co-working space Industry Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, years before spinning Pickle Robot out of Leaf Labs in 2018 with two colleagues.
Career
Meyer earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, graduating in 2009. As an undergraduate, he worked for three years as a researcher in MIT’s Robot Locomotion Group, working on autonomous control systems for acrobatic flight and perching in aerial robots, and spent a summer as a research intern at Honda Research Institute USA, publishing work on synthetic training images for machine vision (LinkedIn).
In June 2009, Meyer founded Leaf Labs, an R&D firm specializing in embedded hardware and software for deep-tech clients, which became known for serving as the primary software and digital design team behind Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone and for building neurotechnology hardware with MIT’s Boyden Lab (MIT EECS; Pickle Robot). In 2011, he also founded Industry Lab, a co-working space in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
By 2018, after roughly a decade of consulting work, Meyer and Leaf Labs colleagues Ariana Eisenstein and Dan Paluska decided they wanted to build their own robotics product rather than continue consulting for others. They founded Pickle Robot, initially building box-sorting robots before pivoting to truck unloading after observing manual dock labor at a UPS warehouse. As CEO, Meyer has led Pickle Robot through a $50 million Series B round in 2024 and a reported $120 million equipment deal with UPS by late 2025, and the company was named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2026; Meyer was also named to the Boston Business Journal’s 2026 “40 Under 40” list (LinkedIn).
Source Notes
This profile draws on Meyer’s LinkedIn profile, Pickle Robot’s own “About Us” page, an MIT EECS feature on Pickle Robot’s founding story, and a MHEDA Talks robotics panel bio. His exact birth year and hometown are not disclosed in available sources and have been intentionally left blank rather than estimated.