# Peter Soetens - Full Context for AI Agents

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## Identity
- Name: Peter Soetens
- Role: CEO
- Company: Intermodalics
- Location: Leuven, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-soetens

## Expertise
- Robotics
- Machine Vision
- C++
- Artificial Intelligence

## About
Peter Soetens is the CEO of Intermodalics, a role he has held since August 2010. He is based in Leuven and states expertise in robotics, machine vision, C++ and artificial intelligence.

He was also CEO of Pickit 3D from June 2016 to August 2022. Between May 2009 and 2014 he worked as a freelance consultant at The SourceWorks. From 2005 until April 2009 he was a senior researcher at Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre, also recorded as FMTC. Before that, from September 2001 to October 2005, he was a research assistant at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

He completed a master's degree in electro-mechanics and automation at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent, in 2000, followed by a master's in artificial intelligence at KU Leuven in 2001. He then completed a PhD in engineering sciences at KU Leuven, on real-time robotics, between 2001 and 2005.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] Intermodalics: https://techwiki.ai/companies/intermodalics/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-07-15] Today, I had a talk with an investor 💸 . I told him that within 3-5 years, all new cars will have legs. Why? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-soetens_today-i-had-a-talk-with-an-investor-activity-7483158457815212032-gu4k)
- [2026-07-09] I had a discussion with an investor whether legs or wheels would win. I told him: look at the current work environment: if people move… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-soetens_i-had-a-discussion-with-an-investor-whether-activity-7480991686580486144-w5Ol)
- [2026-07-07] MACHINA Summit started and the first speaker answered his own question in the first minute “the answer is no”. Could not be more European… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-soetens_machina-summit-started-and-the-first-speaker-activity-7480166723082620928-61a9)
- [2026-07-06] On my way to 🤖 MACHINA Summit - Instead of a boring selfie 📸 , here's an interesting 📈 plot about VLM with/without Supervised Fine… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-soetens_on-my-way-to-machina-summit-instead-activity-7479946450303422464-uOoH)
- [2026-06-27] In the age of AI, Fatrop still beats the other solutions (old and incumbent) in terms of execution time, stability and path planning… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-soetens_new-fatrop-release-available-just-pushed-activity-7476551783838842880-nxYa)

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-soetens
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/peter-soetens/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/peter-soetens/llms-full.txt

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