From Vineyards to Rail Yards: A Million Hours of Outdoor Autonomy

Vibhor Sood, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Burro

Vibhor Sood is Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Burro. He leads the development of Burro's autonomous systems across perception, planning, hardware, and fleet infrastructure, from initial concept through large-scale deployment in real-world indoor and outdoor environments. Over the past eight years, Vibhor has helped scale Burro from an early prototype to a global fleet, shipping more than 700 robots that have accumulated over 100 years of autonomous operation—covering the equivalent of 9+ laps around the planet—in production settings with over 4,000 end users. Burro's systems operate in unstructured environments such as farms, construction sites, and industrial facilities, where reliability, safety, and uptime are critical. His background spans robotics and electrical engineering, with experience in infrastructure-free outdoor localization research and full-stack system design.