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Josh Chen

CS + Physics Scroll ↓

Shipping physical products for almost a decade.

Age 10
Software

Started coding

Mostly GML at first, an object-oriented language similar to C and C++.

Age 11–14
Software

Games

Designed and prototyped over 25 board games, card games and video games, and incidentally learned game theory along the way.

1stLady DeBug gameplay
3rdHOVR title screen
Lit Nightmare title screen
The Village gameplay
Age 15
Design + Manufacturing

Fake Diamonds (Game)

Designed a card game and took it to a manufacturer in China. Sold online and in retail.

Fake Diamonds card game box
Fake Diamonds being played
Age 16–18
Software

Hackathons

Competed in over a dozen hackathons and won 3.

  • K-Hacks 2.0
  • GMC Jam 48
  • .devHacks 2025 · Best in AI
Age 19
Hardware + Software

CS + Physics

Started studying at the University of Manitoba. Learned how to think from first principles.

University of Manitoba logo
Age 20
Software

K-Scale Labs Residency

Worked on a web rendering environment for humanoid simulation using MuJoCo.

K-Scale Labs
Humanoid simulation in MuJoCo
Hardware + Software

Founders Inc [Ship It]

30 intense days in SF with some of the greatest young founders.

Founders, Inc.
Hardware

Robotic hands

I designed 4 generations of a robotic hand, and one of the first fully biomimetic electric robotic hands in the world.

Blue robotic hand mounted on the humanoid arm
6DOF
15 DOF robotic hand on the bench
Biomimetic hand with a skin cover
Age 21
Hardware

Mini humanoid

Developed a 16 DOF mini humanoid with a team of 3. Never quite got this one walking, too much servo backlash.

16 DOF mini humanoid robot standing in sneakers
Hardware + Manufacturing

Humanoid robot

Built 2 generations of a full-feature 23 DOF humanoid robot from scratch, including dexterous hands, depth cameras, and an onboard NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. Also with a team of 3; I led the hardware design.

Two generations of the humanoid robot side by side
Age 22
Hardware

Bathroom cleaning robot

A full robot design in Onshape, plus a proof-of-concept prototype.

Bathroom cleaning robot concept render
Software

Software Developer, Superior Projects

Developing internal tools to help their construction and estimating teams work more efficiently.

Superior Projects logo
Software

InviteAll

Bid invitation software for general contractors. inviteall.io ↗

Building at the intersection of hardware, AI, & software.

Side projects

A few other random projects I've worked on.

Kale app
SoftwareAge 21

Kale

Social media without the cocaine.

Napoleon app
SoftwareAge 21

Napoleon

An app to help me remember names. Napoleon could supposedly remember 50,000.

Password site blocker
SoftwareAge 22

Password Site Blocker

Blocks distracting websites behind a friend's password, for accountability.

Connect 4 bot
SoftwareMinimax

Connect 4 Bot

A Connect 4 bot that picks its moves using a minimax algorithm.

Always building