MRPX Technologies LLC is a robotics simulation engineering company. We help technical teams validate robot behavior, investigate problems, and finish simulation work without adding permanent headcount for every project.
Robotics teams often have simulation work in the backlog that does not justify another full-time simulation engineer. MRPX takes that work as a defined engineering package.
There are two ways to engage. A Simulation Sprint is one robot, one scenario, and one engineering question, starting at $2,000 for well-scoped work. Extended Simulation Engineering is a larger package for a team that already has simulation work, scoped by project, milestone, or work package.
A sprint can include a virtual commissioning question, such as reach, collision, path, or layout in a planned cell. It does not replace PLC commissioning or a safety review. A hosted simulation is optional after delivery, if the team wants the scenario to stay available for reviews and reruns.
MRPX began with surgical robotics simulation research, building on the AMBF (Asynchronous Multi-Body Framework) developed by the WPI AIM Lab. That work remains part of the technical foundation and is available as a technology demonstration of simulation infrastructure. It is not the commercial product, and it is not a customer case study.
Published MRPX work uses ROS, physics-based robot simulation, robot and workcell modeling, and browser-based review. A new project’s simulation environment is selected after the engineering question is clear. Customer files can include URDF, CAD, and related assets when those exist.
Manuel Retana is the founder of MRPX Technologies LLC and the person who scopes and builds the simulation work.
He spent about ten years in aerospace engineering environments, on complex systems and technical project execution. Aerospace here is prior employment, not a government affiliation.
He started MRPX from surgical robotics simulation, using the AMBF framework from the WPI AIM Lab as infrastructure. That research console still exists. It is not the commercial product.
The commercial work is simulation engineering for other teams: a Simulation Sprint or a scoped work package. Prior employment is not an MRPX customer project. MRPX is a small shop. There is no large delivery staff behind the site.
Email manuel.retana@mrpxtech.com.
MRPX Technologies acknowledges the AMBF (Asynchronous Multi-Body Framework) project developed by the WPI AIM Lab (Automation and Interventional Medicine Robotics Research Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute). AMBF is a real-time dynamic simulation framework that enables robotic simulation with haptic interaction capabilities.
We cite the AMBF IROS 2019 paper: Munawar, A., & Fischer, G. S. (2019). "An Asynchronous Multi-Body Simulation Framework for Real-Time Dynamics, Haptics and Learning with Application to Surgical Robots." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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