Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 11:00am to Friday, September 6, 2019 - 11:55am
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Speaker Name
Raffaello D’Andrea
Affiliation
ETH Zurich
Building and Room number
E18-304
Abstract
Along with MIT alumni Mick Mountz and Pete Wurman, he co-founded Kiva Systems – now Amazon Robotics – in 2003. He was the system architect and faculty advisor of the 4-time world champion Cornell RoboCup team, from 1999 to 2003. In addition, he is a new media artist with exhibitions at various international venues, including the Venice Biennale, the FRAC Centre and the National Gallery of Canada. Other creations and projects include the Flying Machine Arena, the Distributed Flight Array, the Balancing Cube, Cubli, Flight Assembled Architecture, the Blind Juggler, the Robotic Chair, and RoboEarth.
Biography
Raffaello D’Andrea is founder, CEO, and chairman of the board of Verity, the world’s leading autonomous indoor drone system provider. He is also co-founder of ROBO Global, creator of the world’s first robotics exchange-traded fund, and a professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich (on leave).