LEE
REDDEN

Roboticist | Entrepreneur | Team Builder

Redefining Global Package Delivery

Lee has always been driven by a simple belief: that thoughtful innovation through robotics can reshape entire industries.

His journey as a founder has taken him through some of the top robotics research institutions in the United States, including Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, and NASA Johnson Space Center.  

As an NSF Graduate Fellow and Stanford graduate student, Lee co-founded Blue River Technology with a mission to redefine intelligence in agricultural equipment. He went on to serve as the company’s CTO and Chief Scientist, pioneering a new era of precision automation in farming.

Blue River Technology was acquired by John Deere in 2017.

Today, Lee is bringing that same belief to autonomous delivery through Last Feet Inc., a robotics company based in Palo Alto, solving the last 50 feet of package delivery.

LOGISTICS
innovation

Lee founded Last Feet Inc. with a vision to make the movement of goods faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective for households around the world. Through autonomous delivery robots designed to transport packages the final 50 feet from a delivery truck directly to a residence, Last Feet solves one of the most complex challenges in modern delivery logistics.

Last Feet Inc.
Redefining Package Delivery with Robotics
Agricultural
innovation

Lee co-founded Blue River Technology on the belief that farmers should be able to grow more with fewer resources. By integrating advanced algorithms, computer vision, machine learning, sensors, and robotics into farm equipment, Blue River Technology pioneered a new era of plant-by-plant care at centimeter-level accuracy. The company’s autonomous systems increase crop yields while dramatically reducing chemical usage across every acre. Blue River’s technology has been deployed across millions of plants per hour in commercial agriculture, helping farmers improve efficiency, reduce waste, and solve challenges traditional farming methods can no longer address.

Under Lee’s technical leadership, Blue River Technology emerged as a leader in agricultural robotics and was acquired by John Deere in 2017.

career
Highlights
Fellow Award
winner
NSF Graduate Research Program & NSF SBIR Program
Two of John Deere's Flagship Products in Market