Tony Day

I help hardware and robotics teams take products from early concept through to reliable, production-ready systems.

I work with both early-stage startups and more established teams. For startups, I help set the right foundations early, defining system architecture, making practical design decisions, and avoiding costly rework later. For established products, I’m typically brought in when development has slowed, designs are becoming expensive to fix, or a product needs to be ready for customer trials or scale-up.

My work spans system architecture, mechanical design, and integration with electronics and software, focusing on improving reliability, manufacturability, and overall system performance. I combine system-level thinking with hands-on engineering, so I can both define direction and help execute it in practice.

I’ve delivered multiple generations of an autonomous robotics platform from prototype through to commercial deployment, including CE and UKCA compliance and units operating in the field.

Typical support includes system architecture definition, design reviews, component specification, failure analysis, and preparing products for manufacturing and compliance.