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Dr. Bryan Cole

With scientists for parents, a biology teacher uncle and a childhood spent largely outdoors, environmental science called to Dr Bryan Cole from an early age...

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Davide Scaramuzza

A native of Terni in the province of Umbria, central Italy, Dr Davide Scaramuzza leads a team of researchers...

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Dr. Cara LaPointe

There can be few more ambitious goals than ensuring the safe integration of AI and autonomous systems...

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Dr. David Barrett

Propulsive efficiency under water is one of many areas in which nature has had the advantage...

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Noel Helks

While she wasn’t born among robots and high technology, Noel Heiks was introduced to them at an early age. That set her on a career path as an engineer, serial entrepreneur and investor that has led to positions on the boards of companies including long-range BVLOS UAV systems developer Censys Technologies, and made her an evangelist for the integration of UAVs with advanced sensors and machine learning (ML)...

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Jarno Puff

An early enthusiasm for computers and aviation, combined with talents that leaned more towards the practical than the academic, led Jarno Puff, now CTO of uncrewed subsystems developer LikeAbird, into an eclectic career that has encompassed industrial robotics, computing, UAV design and HMI development, emergency aviation and cloud computing...

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Ben Kinnaman

Ben Kinnaman, founder and CEO of Greensea Systems and originator of the Open Software and Equipment Architecture (OpenSea) robotics platform, came up through the hands-on, practical side of the marine industry...

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Kelvin Hamilton

Artificial intelligence that learns by trial and error ,much like a human toddler, and the virtual twin of a real-world UAV, combine to develop flight control software automatically...

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Jakub Weglarz

Hybrid vehicles that can operate in more than one medium are always tricky to develop. The demands of flight, to minimise weight for example, conflict with the requirements of a vehicle that can operate on the ground and successfully negotiate different types of terrain...