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In conversation: Michael Robbins

Like it or not, leading an industry association is a highly political job. Michael Robbins, president and CEO of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), was educated as a political scientist and had an early...

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In conversation: Mario Paniccia

At Intel, Mario Paniccia proved that silicon can transmit and receive data using light, thereby pioneering silicon photonics, which has applications in communications, AI, sensing, biomedical and beyond. He subsequently used...

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In conversation: Kofi Owusu-Adusei

With a background in telecoms with an emphasis on security, Kofi Owusu-Adusei, 34, is a Ghanaian engineer and entrepreneur on a mission to solve some of his country’s toughest problems through the application of UAS and the technology...

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In conversation: Erin Roesler

Based in the spacious and sparsely populated US state of North Dakota, the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) is perhaps best known for Vantis, the programme that supports beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight for UAS statewide...

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In conversation: Dr Beatriz Canamary

As well as being gateways to global commerce and economic growth, ports stand as some of the world’s most vibrant intersections of critical domains, influenced by overlapping circles of regulators, international policymakers...

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In conversation: Christian Ramsey

For the past decade, the pace of advancement in uncrewed systems has run together with the pace at which the technology of their subsystems could be miniaturised. Going forwards, however, the rates of adoption and advancement will be increasingly...

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In conversation: Toby Wilmington

In an era where uncrewed systems and IoT devices are reshaping industries – from defence to logistics – their vulnerabilities often go unnoticed. Toby Wilmington, co-founder of Periphery, knows this all too well. A former touring musician turned cybersecurity...

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Professor Barry Lennox

Decommissioning nuclear power plants is an immense task. The estimate for the Sellafield facility in Cumbria is £136 billion over more than a century. During the last 14 years, Barry Lennox, professor of applied control at the University of Manchester...

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Professor Robin Murphy

Professor Robin Murphy is an expert in using robots to save lives and rebuild communities following a disaster. She wrote a book on the subject, Disaster Robotics, which has become a key reference work. She is also the Raytheon professor of...