尼基塔·鲁丁Nikita Rudin

Did his PhD at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab on massively parallel reinforcement learning for legged robots — the line of work that made sim-to-real locomotion routine rather than remarkable. Co-founded Flexion in Zurich to build the layer most humanoid companies are missing: not the body but the brain, a whole-body control and planning stack that takes a natural-language task and turns it into motion. Raised a $50M Series A in November 2025 from DST Global, NVIDIA's NVentures, redalpine, Prosus and Moonfire, and shipped Reflect v1.0 in June 2026 for long-horizon missions.