Preparing for the Machine Revolution

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).