Primary Job Title Co-founder and Managing Director - Germany Primary Organization 
Blue Ocean Robotics
Location Munich, Bayern, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Thorsten Röder is Co-founder and Managing Director of Blue Ocean Robotics GmbH in Germany. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2006 and a Master of Science degree in 2008 in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (TUM). He joined the TUM research staff in 2008, where he worked for several national and EU-funded projects on
people tracking, object tracking, sensor fusion, intuitive robot interfaces, high-speed data processing, task descriptions, reasoning systems, system architectures of software-intensive dynamic systems and has a professional background in the areas of computer vision, high-performance computing, computing and software architecture, concurrent processes and systems. He is a convinced advocate for the C++ programming language with all his heart. He founded his first company with the age of 18 selling computer hardware to local institutions and companies. From 2003 he was Co-founder and Managing Director of VisionAlive GmbH for 7 consecutive years - providing consulting services for large scale IT infrastructure projects, distributed computing and product development for the educational sector. As of 2011 he is also Co-founder and Managing Director of Cognition Factory GmbH providing custom robot development and consulting services.
