Jaxon

Jaxon Poentis

Building robots, and the
infrastructure that runs them.

Founding Engineer @ Northstar
CS + Math @ WashU
prev Tesla, Capital One, Spectrum

01 About

Get the robots out the lab.

I'm a founding engineer at Northstar Robotics, working on teleoperation, data pipelines, and policy fine-tuning. I also study CS + Math at WashU.

I grew up on Oʻahu, where I led robotics teams and presented at ISEF. I've also worked at Tesla, Capital One, and Spectrum.

This site holds my work and writing.

Right now
Founding Engineer · Northstar Robotics
Studying
CS + Math · WashU, class of '27
Areas
Distributed systems · Robotics
Off the clock
Hiking · Fishing · Gaming
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02 Projects

Draw.Northstar

November 10, 2026

Fable 5.2 drew 40+ people with a real robot arm, with no human in the loop. How designing the harness made that work, and why it was still slow and imperfect.

Geonosis-AI

October 27, 2026

Built solo at Cal Hacks 13.0, Honorable Mention in the SpacetimeDB track. The Robot Deployment Agentic Factory. Get from any embodiment to perform any task with a fleet of long running agents.

Exchangent

October 20, 2026

Let buyers and sellers have agents handle both buying, selling, and negotiating with the Negotiating Agent Protocol (NAP) (built with Surya Pugazhenthi)

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03 Blog

November 8, 2026

The real place of LLMs in robotics

Every week there's a new tweet saying robotics is solved. Someone hooks ChatGPT, Astra or Fable up to an arm, it picks up a block, and the replies call it the end of the field. Unfortunately, most of the people saying th…

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