# Pliant Energy Systems: company

Canonical ID: `3eba13ad-fa16-47ab-9947-36c8ba5edc99`

## Key facts

- **Robot:** Velox amphibious robot using undulating electroactive-polymer fins
- **Focus:** Soft robotics for locomotion across water, sand and ice
- **Technology:** Novel fin-based propulsion system
- **Company type:** Soft-robotics developer
- **CEO:** Benjamin Pietro Filardo
- **Product:** Velox biomimetic undulating robot

- **Slug:** pliant-energy-systems
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2011
- **HQ:** Brooklyn, NY, USA

## Models

- [Velox](/models/pliant-energy-systems-velox.md) (other) (id: `a9476e39-2afa-4019-8fcb-b6ca1bab478c`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Benjamin Pietro Filardo](/people/benjamin-pietro-filardo.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Benjamin Pietro Filardo](/people/benjamin-pietro-filardo.md) (cofounder)

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.pliantenergy.com/

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