Jacob Stelzriede

Engineering · Physics · Artificial Intelligence

About

I’m an engineer at heart — building systems that think, move, and respond to the world around them. My work bridges robotics, control theory, physics, and AI, exploring how intelligence and stability emerge from motion and feedback.

Over the years I’ve designed autonomous machines, developed real-time control frameworks, and led experiments that blur the line between art and science. I’m endlessly curious about how small principles — a twist, a pattern, a pulse — can scale into complex behavior.

I don’t chase problems for recognition; I chase them because I can’t ignore them. Curiosity, not credentials, has been the thread through everything I’ve built.

Professional Experience

Independent Research

Physics & AI — 2024 – 2025

Expanded my control-systems thesis into first-principles research across physics and AI, focusing on reasoning, reinforcement, and symbolic field modeling.

Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Very IoT & Engineering Services | Jul 2023 – Jul 2024

Translated ambitious concepts into production-ready, scalable systems. Applied full-stack prototyping through deployment while aligning iteration cycles with ML-style experimentation. Filed patent for an Intelligent Hydrotherapy System.

Robotics Engineer – System Integration

Verdant Robotics | Mar 2021 – May 2023

Managed CI/CD pipelines and sensor integration for autonomous agricultural systems. Developed control tuning, validation, and field-ready deployment. Patent 11623305: Autonomous Laser Treatment System for Agricultural Objects.

Hardware Engineer – Systems

X, The Moonshot Factory (Google X) | Jul 2019 – Mar 2021

Scaled an agricultural robotics fleet from 5 to 40 systems, integrating sensing, control, and data pipelines across multi-robot deployments. Twice awarded Engineering Excellence Award for cross-platform integration.

Founder – Creative Lead

Gears & Gadgets LLC | 2016 – Present

Engineering and design consulting focused on robotics, AI, and large-scale interactive art. Leading cross-disciplinary projects that merge control systems and creative expression.

Research & Exploratory Frameworks

My work is exploratory by nature — blending physics, control theory, and AI to search for unifying principles in complex systems. These projects are open frameworks meant to provoke curiosity and invite others to explore, validate, and extend the ideas. All manuscripts are not currently online. Email for more information.

Yang–Mills Mass Gap

A constructive Euclidean framework for SU(N) gauge theory, where a spectral mass gap emerges through twist–compression dynamics.

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Quantum Confinement Framework

A constructive simulation exploring mass generation, symmetry breaking, and confinement through dynamically evolving twist-capable scalar fields.

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Birch & Swinnerton–Dyer Conjecture

A resonance-based symbolic field model exploring elliptic curve group structure from field coherence and energy-locking dynamics.

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Hodge Conjecture

Symbolic field simulations reconstruct algebraic cycles on complex surfaces via triplet-based cohomology extraction.

Framework Available

Navier–Stokes Regularization

Developing a field-based twist-compression regularization model to prevent singularities and maintain bounded vorticity.

Framework Available

Riemann Hypothesis

Constructing a spectral framework where the zeros of ζ(s) correspond to eigenvalues of a self-adjoint operator.

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Beal Conjecture

Exploring symbolic exponent relations as geometric constraints; a constructive approach to field resonance and integer solutions.

Publication Soon

P vs NP

Investigating whether symbolic reasoning systems can map between verification and generation processes.

Framework Available

Conservation Torque Framework (CTF)

A torque-routing and resonance-aware control architecture for spacecraft and autonomous systems.

Publication Available

Deep Reasoning Model (DRM)

A symbolic AI engine that reasons without training data or LLM use. Currently sloving ARC tasks, doing linear algebra, and playing chess. The code base is less then 2MB.

Demo Available

The Symbolic Field Encyclopedia

Physics & AI Research — Oct 2025

A structured reference of field-theory, geometry and symbolic analogs developed as part of the Twist-Compression research program. View Document

Gears & Gadgets LLC Projects

Seasonal and commissioned works exploring the meeting point between engineering and expression. Each installation merges robotics, sensors, and light into experiences that move, breathe, and react.

The Alpaca Pakka (2023)

A 13-foot regenerative solar sculpture built from 1,000 blocks and 1,500 LEDs.

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Emotions Without Morals II (2022)

A re-imagined interactive sculpture replacing motion-tracking sensors with a Simon-Says-style memory game.

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Emotions Without Morals (2018)

Fifteen-foot interactive wood sculpture driven by Raspberry Pi and custom sensors; an early fusion of electronics, CAD, and human-machine empathy.

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Torch Song (2017)

A kinetic fire sculpture with nine moving flame elements, interactively controlled through an icosahedral interface.

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Tribute to Cadillac Ranch (2016)

Three-ton wooden sculpture honoring the end of the gas-guzzling era, depicting an electric car emerging from the earth.

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Contact

Let’s connect — I’m always open to collaboration, discussion, or curiosity.