MRPX Technologies is a small engineering company focused on robotics simulation, digital twins, and virtual commissioning. We help robotics and automation teams answer engineering questions in simulation before committing additional time and cost to physical deployment.
Prove your robot works before deployment. MRPX turns robot models, CAD, layouts, and operating scenarios into simulation environments that help teams identify problems before physical deployment.
Our small-team model allows us to take narrowly defined simulation problems that may not justify another full-time hire or a large consulting engagement. Start with one scenario, one engineering question, and one defined scope.
The primary entry offer is the Robot Simulation Sprint: a fixed-scope engagement around one robot and one defined scenario — starting at $2,000 for well-scoped work. We also deliver Virtual Commissioning Sprints for planned robot cells and automation, and Hosted Validation Twins when the environment should stay available for reviews, demos, and repeated tests.
MRPX combines robotics simulation engineering with reusable hosted infrastructure. Browser access is useful when your team or customer needs to review the simulation directly — it is not a requirement for every engagement.
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 our technical foundation and is available as a technology demonstration of simulation infrastructure — not the commercial product customers must buy.
Depending on the project, work can include ROS / ROS 2, URDF, CAD and USD assets, physics-based simulation, hosted environments, and browser interfaces for reviews and demonstrations.
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 fixed-scope simulation for other teams’ robots: one robot, one scenario, one engineering question. 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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