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Rotterdam · founded by Dennis van Lent

Everything I build,
under one umbrella.

I'm an engineering executive who never stopped building. Astriid Dynamics is where my apps, my robots and my research live together — pick one and have a look.

13+
Years in hightech
4
Active ventures
1
Umbrella
Own product · bookhold app Centje Bookkeeping that keeps its own books — the admin app I wanted for my own companies. Open → Smart robotics MicroDog A small four-legged robot with a big personality. Built to be played with, poked at and programmed. Open → EU-granted R&D Revalidation robotics Research into robotics that help people recover movement — funded, and aimed at a real demonstrator. Open → Services White-label products Proven hardware, bought in and given the software it deserved — then sold under my own label. Open →
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Centje

Centje is the bookhold application I built because running several entities meant running several spreadsheets. Ledgers, holdings and filings in one calm place — made for owner-operators, not accountants.

Every entity on one page — holdings, BVs and personal admin side by side.
Filings with a deadline — it tells you what's due before your accountant does.
Boring on purpose — no dashboards you'd never read.

Drop a screenshot here and it stays.
← All ventures Smart robotics

MicroDog

A desk-sized quadruped with real gait control and a stubborn little character. I build MicroDog because robots should be touchable — something a child can meet and an engineer can reprogram on the same afternoon.

12 servos On-device sensing Open SDK No cloud needed

Currently a working prototype. Next: a small run for classrooms and makers.

Follow the build
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Revalidation
robotics

With EU funding I research robotics for rehabilitation — devices that support people relearning movement, and that a therapist can actually use in a session. The goal is a demonstrator on the floor, not a paper on a shelf.

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Proposal and technical annex — work packages that survive review.

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Build at TRL 4–7, tested with clinicians rather than for them.

3

Exploitation — the result becomes a product under this umbrella.

Looking for a consortium partner with a clinical or technical seat to fill? That's a conversation I like having.

Talk consortium
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[Grant / call name]Revalidation roboticsRunning
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Send me the programme names and I'll fill this in.
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Good hardware,
bought in and made smart.

I don't tool up a factory to prove a point. I buy proven white-label products, then give them the thing they're usually missing — software worth using. Firmware, an app, a cloud back-end and updates that keep arriving, all under the Astriid Dynamics roof.

Sourcing

Finding the right base product

Which OEM device is actually worth building on: build quality, supply, certification, and whether its hardware leaves room for better software.

Software layer

The part that makes it a product

Firmware, mobile and web app, cloud back-end, integrations — the difference between a commodity device and something people keep using.

Launch & life

Sold, supported, updated

Brought to market under my own label with documentation, support and an update path — a product with a life, not a one-off shipment.

1Find a base product with honest hardware.
2Take it apart and test what it can really do.
3Write the software it deserved in the first place.
4Put my name on it and keep it updated.

Manufacture something I should be looking at, or have a device that needs software around it? Send it my way.

Pitch me a product

Case studies

Three pieces of work, told plainly: what was asked, what I built, what it changed. Give me the details and I'll write these properly.

[Client or sector]

[What was built]

[One paragraph: the problem, my role, the outcome — a number if you have one.]

R&D[Year]
[Client or sector]

[What was built]

[One paragraph: the problem, my role, the outcome — a number if you have one.]

IoT[Year]
[Client or sector]

[What was built]

[One paragraph: the problem, my role, the outcome — a number if you have one.]

Cloud[Year]

Dennis van Lent

Managing Director & Engineering Executive
Robotics · IoT · Cloud systems · Rotterdam

R&D leadership Robotics IoT Cloud EU grants

I like the hard,
unglamorous half
of hightech.

Thirteen years of building complex hightech systems, and I still open the editor at night. Today I'm responsible for the whole R&D organisation at SGL — strategy, teams, roadmaps — and Astriid Dynamics is where I keep building with my own hands.

That combination is what I bring to advisory work: I've sat in the management meeting and I've debugged the firmware. I can tell you whether a plan is achievable, and usually why the last one wasn't.

Technical due diligence

An honest read on a codebase, a team or a roadmap before you commit money to it.

R&D organisation & strategy

How to structure engineering so it delivers — and what to stop building.

Grant & funding strategy

Which EU calls fit, what the annex must say, who belongs in the consortium.

Book an intro call

Let's talk

Advisory, a product worth white-labelling, a consortium seat, or just curiosity about MicroDog — write or call. I answer within two working days.

dennisvlent@gmail.com

+31 6 141 20 817

Rotterdam, the Netherlands · [KvK & VAT number]