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Founders, executives, researchers, and board members on the registry. Each entry carries the canonical relation graph: current and prior company roles, foundings, board seats, investor positions, and education.

  • Abhi Khandelwal

    Abhi Khandelwal serves as Chief Financial Officer of IDEX Corporation, overseeing the company's financial operations across its three business segments.

  • Abhinav Gupta

    Co-founder of Skild AI and professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

  • Abidur Chowdhury

    Former Apple industrial designer who led the design team behind the iPhone Air. Joined Hark in fall 2025 after meeting Brett Adcock.

  • Adam Burris

    Founder and CEO of Guardian Agriculture, developing autonomous eVTOL crop protection drones. First eVTOL-maker with FAA commercial operation approval.

  • Adam Jiang

    CEO of Syrius Robotics. Previously led Google X's Project Tang. Heads the Chinese warehouse AMR company with offices across Asia.

  • Adam Sachs

    Co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met co-founder Sammy Khalifa at MIT. Led company through $1.1B SPAC merger with D8 Holdings (October 2021)...

  • Adnan Esmail

    Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (hardware / engineering leadership); previously in Hardware Technologies at Tesla and SVP of Engineering at Anduril Industri...

  • Adrian Schmidt

    Co-founder and CEO of Sarla Aviation, developing India's first 700 kg-class electric eVTOL aircraft.

  • Ajay Sunkara

    Co-founder, President, and CEO of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company founded in 2017.

  • Ajei S. Gopal

    Served as President and CEO of Ansys until the Synopsys acquisition in July 2025; previously held leadership roles at Cisco and Symantec.

  • Akshay Narisetti

    Founder of Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket).

  • Albert Maas

    Founder of Avular, spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014 to develop modular mobile robot platforms.

  • Albert Sanes

    Co-founder and CTO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona. Leads technical development of PAL's humanoid and service robot platforms including TIAGo, TALOS, ...

  • Aldo Zini

    President and CEO of Aethon, maker of the TUG autonomous hospital-delivery robot; a long-time leader in hospital-automation robotics.

  • Alessandro Morra

    Co-founder and CEO of Ascento (began as an ETH Zurich project in 2018), maker of the Ascento Guard wheel-legged outdoor security robot.

  • Alex Gordon

    Co-founder of Revolve Surgical. PhD in surgical robotics.

  • Alex Kendall

    Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based end-to-end autonomous driving company. PhD from the University of Cambridge.

  • Alex Ren

    Co-founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai, founded 2015). Started with exoskeleton rehabilitation devices (ExoMotus line), expanded into general-purp...

  • Alex Shashou

    Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously founded ALICE, a B2B hospitality software company.

  • Alex Wyatt

    Founder and CEO of August Robotics, established in 2017, with Greek family roots from Kastellorizo.

  • Alex Zhou

    Zhou Yong (Alex Zhou) is Founder and CEO of Linkerbot, a Beijing-based robotics unicorn dominating the high-DoF robotic hand market. He graduated at age 14 from...

  • Alexander Schlaepfer

    Founder of Inspection Robotics (originally ALSTOM Inspection Robotics), an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off established in 2006 as a joint venture wit...

  • Alexei Mordashov

    Russian billionaire and steel magnate who controls Power Machines through Highstat Limited; majority shareholder since 2009.

  • Alexey Podkolzin

    Appointed General Director of Power Machines in 2024, previously Deputy General Director for Production.

  • Alon Mozes

    Co-founder and CEO of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot, founded 2009); previously a principal engineer at orthopedic-robotics pioneer MAKO Surgical.

  • Amanda McMaster

    Amanda McMaster serves as Interim CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Boston Dynamics, stepping in after Robert Playter stepped down as CEO in February 2026. She...

  • Amar Shah

    Co-founder and initial CEO of Wayve (2017-2020, departed); now Founder & Partner at Dhyan Ventures. PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge (Gh...

  • Amaury Kosman

    Co-founder and CEO of Circular, a Paris-based smart ring company. Led the development of the Circular Ring 2, named Best Wearable of CES 2025.

  • Amit Dror

    Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Nano Dimension, the additive electronics company.

  • Amy Lentz

    SVP of People at 1X Technologies, overseeing the company's human resources and organizational scaling.

  • Anand Narayanan

    CEO of Systemantics India, building affordable articulated industrial robots and cobots. Redefined robotic arms from first principles of materials.

  • Anders Opedal

    Chief Executive Officer of Equinor ASA, leading Norway's largest energy company through its energy transition and digital transformation including deployment of...

  • Andre van Troost

    CEO of Lely, the world's leading dairy robotics company. Lely surpassed EUR 1 billion revenue in 2025 with 8% R&D investment.

  • Andrea Thomaz

    Co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017), maker of Moxi the hospital service robot. Previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austi...

  • Andrew Ashur

    Founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, a Y Combinator-backed company building modular AI-powered drones and robots for exterior cleaning. Named fastest-growing robotics...

  • Andrew Bate

    Andrew Bate is co-founder and CEO of SwarmFarm Robotics. He and his wife Jocie founded the company in 2012 near Emerald, Queensland, to create robotic technolog...

  • Andrew Clare

    CEO of Elroy Air, leading development of autonomous heavy-cargo VTOL drones. PhD-level executive scaling manufacturing for autonomous logistics platforms.

  • Andrew Reiter

    Co-founder and Technical Fellow at Shield AI (its original CTO until 2018); previously at Draper Laboratory (visual-inertial guidance, autonomous quadrotors). M...

  • Andy Lowery

    CEO of Epirus, succeeding Ken Bedingfield. A 30-year defense and technology veteran, previously served as COO and Chief Product Officer at Epirus.

  • Angelique Ahlstrom

    Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019), the tree-planting-drone reforestation company.

  • Anita Szarek

    Chief Financial Officer of Helsing (effective May 2026); previously CFO at Qonto and Pleo.

  • Anna Cheniuntai

    Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company.

  • Anne Dingstad

    CEO of Saga Robotics, appointed from CFO role. Holds MBA from Norwegian School of Economics and St.Gallen, and runs a family farm as the 15th owner.

  • Anthony Tayoun

    Co-founder and CFO of Dexai Robotics. Co-founded the company alongside CEO David Johnson to commercialize culinary robotics for food service labor shortage solu...

  • Antoine Bataille

    Founder and CEO of CareClever, maker of the Cutii companion robot for seniors that combats loneliness and supports aging in place.

  • Antoine Bordes

    Chief Scientist of Helsing; previously spent ~9 years at Meta / Facebook AI Research (FAIR), latterly as a co-managing director. PhD in AI from Sorbonne Univers...

  • Anukool Lakhina

    Co-founder and CEO of BurnBot, maker of remotely operated prescribed-burn and vegetation-management robots; previously founded big-data analytics firm Guavus. P...

  • Areeb Malik

    CEO of EverestLabs, stepping into the role after serving as investor and advisor. Previously co-founded Glacier (recycling robotics, 2019, with Rebecca Hu) afte...

  • Areeb Malik

    Co-founder of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously a software engineer at Facebook.

  • Arij van der Lely

    Co-founder (with his brother Cornelis) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, the Dutch agricultural-machinery and dairy-robotics company. Deceased.

  • Armin G. Schmidt

    Co-founder and CEO of German Bionic. Led the company since its founding in 2017 through insolvency in 2025 and acquisition by Archimedes Partners in 2026.

  • Arni Oddur Thordarson

    CEO of Marel, leading the Icelandic food processing technology company's global operations in poultry, meat, and fish processing automation.

  • Árni Sigurdsson

    Árni Sigurdsson serves as President of JBT Corporation (now JBT Marel Corporation), overseeing the company's global operations following the Marel acquisition.

  • Arno Vaik

    CEO of Threod Systems. Led the company from 50 to 200 employees with 1,100% sales growth over five years. Targets EUR 100M revenue within a few years.

  • Aronin Ponnappan

    Co-founder and CEO of Sastra Robotics. Robotics specialist helping QA teams with robotics-aided test automation.

  • Arshan Poursohi

    Co-founder and CEO of Third Wave Automation (autonomous forklifts, founded 2018); previously director of engineering at Toyota Research Institute and a software...

  • Artem Kuchukov

    Co-founder and CEO of KEWAZO (founded 2016), maker of the LIFTBOT robotic scaffolding hoist and construction-logistics robotics.

  • Artem Sokolov

    Founder of Humanoid.

  • Arthur Erickson

    Co-founder and CEO of Hylio (founded 2015 while at UT Austin); led the company's shift to agricultural spray drones such as the AG-series.

  • Arthur Kolesnikov

    Founder and CEO of In-Pipe Robot Inc., developing robotic pipeline inspection systems using digital twins and cutting-edge robotics.

  • Ashok Elluswamy

    Tesla VP of AI Software who took over leadership of the Optimus program in June 2025; Tesla's first Autopilot engineer (since 2014). MS in Robotic Systems from ...

  • Assaf Chaprak

    Serial entrepreneur in advanced robotics and manufacturing, focused on building scalable systems for demanding real-world applications.

  • Audley Wilson

    Co-founder and CEO of RoboBurger, data scientist who invented the world's first fully autonomous burger machine. Featured on Shark Tank.

  • Aurelien Demaurex

    Co-founder and CEO of Ecorobotix (founded 2014), the Swiss ultra-high-precision sprayer company behind the ARA; HEC Lausanne management background, previously c...

  • Avi Abadi

    Israeli inventor and entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics (Ozmo window-cleaning robot).

  • Avi Kahani

    Co-founder and CEO of FFRobotics (founded 2014), developer of an autonomous fresh-fruit (apple) harvesting robot.

  • Avi Schiffmann

    22-year-old founder and CEO of Friend, an AI wearable necklace company. Previously built COVID tracking website. The 29 AI pendant is always-listening and meant...

  • Babak Siavoshy

    VP and General Counsel of Anduril; previously legal counsel and global data-protection officer at Palantir. (Some sources also list a CFO title; recorded as GC,...

  • Banks Hunter

    Co-founder and CEO of Charge Robotics (founded 2021 with Max Justicz); MIT mechanical-engineering grad who previously worked at Shaper Tools and Vicarious Surgi...

  • Barry Greene

    Co-founder and medical advisor at Vicarious Surgical; board-certified bariatric and general surgeon with 25+ years of laparoscopic experience; provided the clin...

  • Barry Phillips

    Chief Commercial Officer of Apptronik; previously CMO at Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra) and Group VP at Citrix.

  • Basil Weibel

    Co-founder of Wingtra (founded 2014), the ETH Zurich VTOL-survey-drone spin-off behind the WingtraOne.

  • Ben Kinnaman

    Founder and CEO of Greensea (Greensea IQ), which builds control, navigation, and autonomy software (OPENSEA) and robots for unmanned underwater vehicles and mar...

  • Benjamin Pietro Filardo

    Founder and CEO of Pliant Energy Systems, developing biomimetic undulating robots with novel fin-based propulsion systems.

  • Benoit Savary

    Founder and CEO of TIBOT Technologies (founded 2016), the French poultry-robotics company whose Spoutnic robots improve flock health and reduce floor eggs.

  • Bernard J. Zovighian

    Bernard J. Zovighian succeeded Michael Mussallem as CEO of Edwards Lifesciences on May 11, 2023.

  • Bernt Bornich

    Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics, founded 2014), a Norwegian humanoid robot company backed by OpenAI.

  • Bernt Øivind Børnich

    Norwegian roboticist who founded 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics) in 2014 to build general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.

  • Bertin Nahum

    Founder and CEO of Medtech SA, developer of the ROSA surgical robot. Led the company until its acquisition by Zimmer Biomet in 2016, after which he led Zimmer B...

  • Bharath Sankaran

    Co-founder of Scaled Robotics (later Naska.AI), the construction quality-control robotics company; a robotics researcher.

  • Biao Ma

    Co-founder of Cyngn (DriveMod industrial autonomy), where he served as VP of Engineering and helped take the company public; later founder and CEO of RoboForce.

  • Bibhrajit Halder

    Founder and CEO of SafeAI, the autonomous mining/construction retrofit company (acquired by Pronto); previously worked on autonomy at Apple, Caterpillar, and Fo...

  • Bill Burns

    CEO of Zebra Technologies since 2022. Zebra is a US enterprise technology company specializing in supply chain automation, RFID, and robotics (including Fetch R...

  • Bill Burns

    CEO of Zebra Technologies since March 2023. Sold robotics automation business to Skild AI in April 2026.

  • Billy Thalheimer

    Co-founder and CEO of REGENT Craft, developing the Seaglider wing-in-ground-effect electric maritime vehicle. Raised 4.5M, 0B+ order book.

  • Bir Singh

    Co-founder and CBO of Addverb (founded 2016), the warehouse and material-handling robotics company.

  • Biwei Huang

    Assistant Professor at UC San Diego and globally recognized researcher in causal discovery and machine learning. Creator of open-source tools Causal-Learn and C...

  • Bo Chen

    Co-founder and CEO of Enway, the German maker of autonomous electric sweeping robots.

  • Boris Sofman

    Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader. Building autonomous systems for construction.

  • Brad Bogolea

    Co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics, maker of the Tally retail inventory robot; founded the company in 2014.

  • Bradley Willems

    Bradley Willems succeeded Phil Homan as CEO of Loram in May 2023, having previously served as President and COO.

  • Brandon Contino

    Co-founder and CEO of Four Growers, the Pittsburgh ag-robotics company whose GR-series greenhouse robots autonomously harvest tomatoes and collect crop analytic...

  • Brandon Tseng

    Co-founder and President of Shield AI; a former US Navy SEAL.

  • Brendan Iribe

    Co-founder and former CEO of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform before joining Oculus in 2012.

  • Brett Adcock

    Founder and CEO of Figure AI (humanoid robots), which he founded in 2022. Previously co-founded eVTOL maker Archer Aviation and talent marketplace Vettery.

  • Brett Lindenfeld

    Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the space-robotics company behind robotic arms and mechanisms for NASA missions.

  • Brian A. Deck

    Brian A. Deck is the President and Chief Executive Officer of JBT Corporation (now JBT Marel Corporation), leading the company's strategic transformation into a...

  • Brian Gerkey

    Co-founder and former CEO of Open Robotics (and the Open Source Robotics Foundation), the organization behind ROS and Gazebo; now its board chair.

  • Brian Ichter

    Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; previously a research scientist in Google DeepMind robotics.

  • Brian Joseph

    Co-founder of Vitestro (founded 2017), the autonomous robotic phlebotomy company.

  • Brian Peterson

    Chief Information Officer of Shield AI.

  • Brian Raduenz

    Founder and Executive Chairman of AEVEX Aerospace. U.S. Air Force Academy graduate who built AEVEX into the largest U.S. drone supplier to Ukraine. Transitioned...

  • Brian Schimpf

    Co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries; previously an engineering leader at Palantir Technologies.

  • Bruce D. Broussard

    Bruce D. Broussard was named Interim CEO of HP Inc. in February 2026 following the departure of Enrique Lores, while the board conducts a search for a permanent...

  • Bruno Maisonnier

    Founder of Aldebaran Robotics (2005, Paris), the company behind the NAO humanoid robot and the Pepper social robot. SoftBank acquired Aldebaran in 2012 and rena...

  • Bryan Webb

    Co-founder, CFO, and COO of Clearpath Robotics (founded 2009, Kitchener, Ontario). University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering graduate. Led finance, manufa...

  • Bryce Jones

    Co-founder and CEO of Flash Forest (founded 2019), a Toronto company using tree-planting drones for large-scale reforestation.

  • Bryton Shang

    Founder of Aquabyte (now Executive Chairman), which applies machine vision and AI to salmon aquaculture for biomass estimation, sea-lice counting, and feeding; ...

  • Buck Jordan

    Co-founder of Miso Robotics; served as founding CEO then transitioned to Chairman & President (2020) to focus on fundraising. Led Miso from launch to public lis...

  • Byoung Soo Kim

    CEO of ROBOTIS, awarded the Achievement Award at the 20th Anniversary Ceremony of the Korea Robotics Society. Leading the Dynamixel actuator and educational rob...

  • Byron Boots

    Co-founder and CEO of Overland AI, a defense autonomy startup developing off-road autonomous vehicles. Leading ULTRA UGV production and Pentagon contracts.

  • Cameron Jones

    Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019 with brother Bryce Jones and Angelique Ahlstrom), the reforestation-drone company.

  • Camilla Martin

    Camilla Martin was appointed CEO of SubSea Craft on 30 January 2024, leading the UK-based advanced maritime technology company specializing in underwater vehicl...

  • Cao Ruikun

    Former Luckin Coffee team member responsible for large-scale regional store chain operations and brand standardization systems.

  • Carl Allendorph

    Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  • Carl Bennet

    Swedish industrialist and principal owner of Lifco AB via Carl Bennet AB, which took Lifco private in 2000 and drove its transformation into a serial acquirer.

  • Carl Vause

    Former CEO of Soft Robotics Inc. (now Oxipital AI); joined in 2013 to commercialize the Whitesides lab's soft-gripper technology.

  • Carlo Ratti

    Italian architect and designer, founder of CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati and MIT Senseable City Lab. Created the Makr Shakr robotic bartending system.

  • Caroline Walerud

    Founder and CEO of AirForestry (registered 2020), a Swedish startup developing autonomous electric drones that thin forests from the air.

  • Cayden Pierce

    Co-founder and CEO of Mentra, building an open-source OS for smart glasses. Previously built smart glasses prototypes with the developer community.

  • Cedric Jeanty

    Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  • Chandra Rangan

    Chief Marketing Officer of Shield AI.

  • Chang Jing

    Founder and CEO of Roborock, founded in 2014 in Beijing. Built the company into a publicly listed robot vacuum and smart home appliance manufacturer.

  • Charles Brian Quinn

    Co-founder and CEO of Greenzie (founded 2015), the autonomous-mowing software company; over fifteen years in technology, previously CTO at CloudTags and Holcomb...

  • Charles DuHadway

    Co-founder of Fox Robotics, the autonomous-forklift company acquired by Symbotic.

  • Charlie Andersen

    Co-founder and CEO of Burro (formerly Augean Robotics). Previously worked at CNHi and in autonomy M&A before founding the collaborative farm robot company.

  • Chelsea Finn

    Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and assistant professor at Stanford; previously at Google Brain. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  • Chen Zhongyue

    Chairman of China Unicom, leading the company's strategic pivot toward AI and computing power investment.

  • Cheng Chi

    Co-founder of Sunday Robotics. Stanford PhD. Building the ACT-1 foundation model for autonomous home robotics.

  • Chinn Lim

    CEO of dConstruct Robotics. 30+ years of experience in software and product implementation. Previously led GovTech's Smart National Platform.

  • Chirag Shah

    VP of Software at Apptronik; previously a software executive at Amazon (Kindle, Alexa+).

  • Chiu Chau

    Co-founder of Opentrons; helped found and back the lab-automation robotics company.

  • Chris Baker

    Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building the Terafab automated solar panel construction platform. Founded in 2019 in Berkeley, California.

  • Chris Chapman

    Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983.

  • Chris Chen

    Co-CEO of FF AI-Robotics division, leading the company's robotics business strategy and partnerships.

  • Chris Franzwa

    Co-founder of Verge Aero, the Philadelphia-based drone-light-show technology company.

  • Chris Thayer

    Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the Pasadena space-robotics company that built the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

  • Chris Walti

    Former lead of the Tesla team that became Optimus (departed 2022); co-founded and is CEO of warehouse-automation company Mytra.

  • Christian Brose

    President and Chief Strategy Officer of Anduril; previously Staff Director of the US Senate Armed Services Committee and a State Department policy adviser. Auth...

  • Christian Levin

    Christian Levin is President and CEO of Scania Group and the TRATON GROUP, overseeing Scania, MAN, International, and VW Truck & Bus brands. He leads TRATON's a...

  • Christoph Schell

    CEO of KUKA AG from July 1, 2025. Previously Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member at Intel Corporation, with senior roles at HP and Philips. Appointed Apri...

  • Christoph Schell

    CEO and Chairman of KUKA AG. Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Intel and President of HP.

  • Christophe Gaussin

    CEO of Gaussin Group. Fifth-generation descendant of founder Eugene Gaussin. Joined the family company in 1992.

  • Christophe Lavigne

    Co-founder and CEO of LDR Holding Corporation, led the company from its French origins through its 2013 NASDAQ IPO and 2016 acquisition by Zimmer Biomet for ~$1...

  • Christophe Sapet

    Founder of Navya (2014), the first company to commercialize autonomous shuttles (2015); a serial entrepreneur (Infonie, Infogrames). Ousted as CEO in 2018.

  • Christophe Timmermans

    Co-founder and CEO of SolarCleano (founded 2017), the Luxembourg maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning machines.

  • Christopher Zhou

    Founder and CEO of Shenzhen Camsense Technologies. Tsinghua University graduate.

  • Clint Brauer

    Third-generation farmer and technologist who founded Greenfield Robotics to build AI-powered weed-cutting robots that eliminate herbicide use.

  • Conley Oster

    Co-founder of Raise Robotics (founded 2021), maker of a mobile-manipulator platform with dual UR arms for high-rise facade/curtain-wall installation.

  • Conor Walsh

    Co-founder of Verve Motion; Harvard professor and PI of the Harvard Biodesign Lab (Wyss Institute). The SafeLift exosuit commercializes his lab's research. Prim...

  • Corey Lynch

    Director of AI at Figure AI; previously a research scientist in Google Brain robotics.

  • Cornelis van der Lely

    Co-founder (with his brother Arij) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands; an inventor whose agricultural-machinery innovations grew into the maker of the As...

  • Craig Malloy

    CEO of Vecna Robotics.

  • Craig Piggott

    Founder and CEO of Halter, the cattle virtual-fencing and smart-collar company; grew up on a New Zealand dairy farm.

  • Cristian Ponce

    Cristian Ponce is CEO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He holds a background in biological engineering from Caltech, where he contributed to research in f...

  • Curtis Garner

    Co-founder of Verdant Robotics, bringing deep farming experience to the precision spray-application ag-robotics company.

  • Cynthia Breazeal

    Founder of Jibo.

  • Cyrille Kabbara

    Co-founder and CEO of Shark Robotics, the French maker of the Colossus firefighting and defense ground robot.

  • Dagi Ben-Noon

    Nano Dimension co-founder who later became CEO of Inspira.

  • Damien Bardon

    Director, Humanoid Management System at Figure AI; previously Head of Avionics at Archer Aviation and Airbus.

  • Damon Henry

    CEO and co-founder of Asylon Robotics, leading robotic perimeter security solutions with drone-in-a-box technology.

  • Dan Keene

    Co-founder and COO of Aseon Labs. Previously co-founded Pushme (acquired by TIER-Dott), served as CBO at Superduper, led 20 markets at Deliveroo, and started in...

  • Dan McCloskey

    VP of Hardware at Wayve.

  • Dan Parks

    Co-founder of inVia Robotics; met his co-founders during robotics PhD studies at USC.

  • Dan Yingst

    Former CEO of RedZone Robotics (appointed 2016), previously COO. Prior to RedZone, VP of Finance at Siemens Water Technologies for 10 years.

  • Daniel Blank

    Co-founder and CEO of Toggle Industries (founded 2016 with Ian Cohen); built a full-stack robotics solution for automated rebar fabrication and assembly.

  • Daniel Breum

    CEO and CCO of TinyMobileRobots, a Danish company developing line marking and surveying robots. Formerly at Vertiv and Cobham.

  • Daniel Chu

    Chief Product Officer of Apptronik; previously Chief Product Officer at Waymo (first autonomous ride-hailing launch) and at 23andMe and Google.

  • Daniel Florness

    Former CEO of Fastenal, succeeded by Jeffery M. Watts in December 2025. Led the company through significant eCommerce and vending technology growth.

  • Daniel Koppel

    Co-founder and CEO of Prospera Technologies, developing AI computer vision for crop monitoring. Led the company to a 00M acquisition by Valmont Industries.

  • Daniel Maturana

    Daniel Maturana is a co-founder of Gather AI, bringing expertise in deep learning and computer vision to the warehouse inventory drone platform.

  • Daniel Theobald

    Founder of Vecna Robotics (and earlier Vecna Technologies); a robotics pioneer of 20+ years who built the company's autonomous mobile robots and workflow-orches...

  • Dar Sleeper

    VP of Growth at 1X Technologies; previously a product manager at Tesla (Cybertruck launch).

  • Daryl Lim

    Co-founder and CEO of Amity Robotics, a Thai startup building industrial robots. Raised M Seed led by East Ventures.

  • Dave Crinklaw

    Founder and CEO of GUSS Automation; grew it out of his family's Crinklaw Farm Services spray business to create the Global Unmanned Spray System autonomous orch...

  • Dave Perry

    VP of Marketing at Apptronik; previously an executive at Paramount+ and Amazon.

  • Dave Petrosky

    CEO of RedZone Robotics, leading the wastewater inspection robotics company with 100M+ feet of pipe inspected and 37 patents in multi-sensor inspection.

  • Dave R. Alexander

    President of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), succeeding Frank Pace who had succeeded Thomas J. Cassidy as president of the Aircraft Systems Group...

  • David Benhaim

    CTO and co-founder of Markforged, developing the technology behind the first carbon fiber and metal 3D printers.

  • David Cann

    Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics (founded 2012), maker of the Double telepresence robot. Y Combinator alum (W12). Pioneer in mobile telepresence robotics f...

  • David Cann

    Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics, developing the Double 3 telepresence robot. Y Combinator graduate.

  • David Cummings

    Co-founder of Greenzie; an Atlanta serial entrepreneur best known for founding marketing-automation company Pardot and the Atlanta Ventures studio.

  • David Fischel

    Chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis, leading the magnetic navigation surgical robotics company through Genesis RMN system launches and global regulatory approvals.

  • David Golden

    Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  • David Hansen

    Co-founder and CEO of Westmag. Previously led motor supply-chain work at Weel with years of direct Chinese BLDC sourcing experience. University of Washington gr...

  • David Hanson

    Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013, Hong Kong), creator of Sophia the humanoid robot. Holds PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology from University...

  • David Hanson

    American roboticist; founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013), creator of human-like social robots with realistic facial expressions, most notably Soph...

  • David Hsu

    Founder and CEO of Retool, started the company in 2017 after studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford. YC W17 alumnus.

  • David Huml

    David W. Huml has served as Tennant Company's President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2021, after serving as Chief Operating Officer from March 2020. ...

  • David Lamont

    Co-founder and CEO of Square Robot, the Boston-based company building autonomous submersible robots for in-service aboveground storage-tank inspection.

  • David M.S. Johnson

    Co-founder and CEO of Dexai Robotics, maker of Alfred, a culinary robot for commercial kitchens. Previously spent seven years at the Charles Stark Draper Labora...

  • David McCall

    Principal Industrial Designer at Figure AI; previously a senior automotive designer at Rivian, Audi and Faraday Future.

  • David Moloney

    Co-founder and CTO of Movidius; previously led chip architecture for the Myriad VPU product line.

  • David Rodriguez

    Co-Founder of Robot.com. Quoted in R-noid launch press release emphasizing deployment speed.

  • David Yan

    CEO of INNFOS. Leading developer of Smart Compliant Actuators for high-performance robots.

  • David Zito

    Co-founder and founding CEO of Miso Robotics, the kitchen-robotics company (Flippy) founded in 2016 by Caltech engineers.

  • Davis Foster

    Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously at spatial-computing company Occipital.

  • Deepak Pathak

    Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  • Dennis Jackson

    Engineering Director (development fleet software) at Wayve; previously an embedded AV software lead at Cruise.

  • Derek King

    Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team that commercialized AMRs for logistics.

  • Derrick Morse

    Founder and CEO of Rugged Robotics. Professional Engineer who founded the construction layout automation company after experiencing jobsite pain points firsthan...

  • Dhanush Radhakrishnan

    Co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics. Building biomimetic musculoskeletal androids using synthetic muscles.

  • Dima Gazda

    Co-founder and CEO of Esper Bionics; an MD and embedded engineer building the AI-powered Esper Hand prosthetic and a brain-computer-interface platform.

  • Dino Mavrookas

    Co-founder and CEO of Saronic, the autonomous surface-vessel company; a former US Navy SEAL.

  • Dirk Pöschl

    Co-founder of German Bionic.

  • Dmitry Oleynikov

    Co-founder of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a surgeon (formerly University of Nebraska Medical Center) who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized in-vivo surgical...

  • Dominik Feiden

    CEO and co-founder of Organifarms, developing the BERRY autonomous strawberry harvesting robot for greenhouse operations in Konstanz, Germany.

  • Don Gao

    Founder and CEO of Positec Group, established in 1994 in Suzhou, China. Built Positec from an OEM tool manufacturer into a global leader in robotic lawn mowers ...

  • Dong Xin

    Executive Director, Chairman and CEO of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd, the listed entity of China Unicom.

  • Dor Skuler

    Co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics (founded 2016), maker of ElliQ, a social companion robot for older adults. Previously a serial entrepreneur and executi...

  • Doug Lambert

    Co-founder and COO of Saronic; previously Head of Engineering at Liquid Robotics and VP Engineering at Terradepth.

  • Douglas Pferdehirt

    Douglas Pferdehirt has served as Chair and CEO of TechnipFMC since its formation in January 2017, previously serving as President of FMC Technologies.

  • Dr Atif Syed

    Founder and CEO of Wootzano, developing the Avarai fruit packaging robot with Wootzkin electronic skin. Awarded Princess Royal Silver Medal by the Royal Academy...

  • Dr Yandong Eric Guo

    Founder and CEO of AI2 Robotics, one of China's rare experts combining deep capabilities in AI and intelligent robotics. Commercializing AlphaBot 2 at $2.8B val...

  • Dr. David Löbl

    Dr. David Löbl is Co-Founder and CEO of ERC System. An aerospace engineer and leader shaping the future of hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for defense and critica...

  • Dr. Fritz Faulhaber

    Founded FAULHABER in 1947 as a fine mechanics workshop in Schonaich, Germany. Invented the ironless DC micromotor, a milestone in precision mechanics.

  • Dr. Michael Yip

    Dr. Michael Yip is Co-Founder of Channel Robotics. He co-founded the medical robotics startup in 2023 with Dr. Philip Weissbrod.

  • Dr. Moritz Tenorth

    CTO and member of management at Magazino GmbH, leading robotics software development including the ACROS.AI platform.

  • Dr. Peter Heiligensetzer

    Co-founder and CTO of German Bionic. Led the development of the Cray X, Apogee, and Exia exoskeleton platforms.

  • Dr. Philip Weissbrod

    Dr. Philip A. Weissbrod, MD is Co-Founder and CEO of Channel Robotics. He is a physician leading the development of handheld AI-enabled endoscopic robotic techn...

  • Dr. Tao Ye

    CEO and founder of Bambu Lab, leading the company to over CNY 10 billion in revenue and becoming one of the world's largest 3D printer manufacturers.

  • Dr. Thomas Strat

    CEO of DZYNE Technologies, leading the company through its acquisition by Highlander Partners and subsequent growth in defense UAS platforms.

  • Dustin Freckleton

    Co-founder and CEO of Happy Health (Happy Ring); a physician (MD).

  • Dylan Ng Terntzer

    Co-founder and CEO of LionsBot International, the Singapore-based commercial cleaning robotics company founded in 2018.

  • Eddie Tunstel

    Eddie Tunstel is CTO at Motiv Space Systems. Spent 18 years at NASA JPL as senior robotics engineer and group leader of JPL's Advanced Robotic Controls Group, a...

  • Edward Petit de Mange

    Managing Director of Diakont, leading the company's robotic pipeline and nuclear plant inspection business with operations in San Diego, California.

  • Ekaterina Grib

    Co-founder of KEWAZO (founded 2016), the construction-robotics company digitizing scaffolding and material transport.

  • Eliot Horowitz

    Founder and CEO of Viam (founded 2020, New York). Previously co-founded MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) in 2007 with Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan (all former DoubleClic...

  • Elon Musk

    CEO of Tesla, which develops the Optimus humanoid robot. Joined Tesla in 2004; not an original Tesla founder. Separately the founder and CEO of SpaceX, founder ...

  • Elram Goren

    Co-founder and former CEO of Fabric (formerly CommonSense Robotics), the robotic micro-fulfillment company founded in 2015.

  • Emanuele Menegatti

    Professor at the University of Padua and co-founder of IT+Robotics, a 3D industrial robot vision spin-off founded in 2005.

  • Emanuele Rossetti

    CEO of Makr Shakr, leading the robotic bartending company's commercial operations.

  • Emma Baillie

    Chief People Officer of Wayve.

  • Enrique Lores

    Enrique Lores served as President and CEO of HP Inc. from November 2019 until February 2026, leading the company through a transformation centered on services, ...

  • Eran Meller

    Co-founder and CEO of Ecoppia, the water-free robotic solar-panel cleaning company (founded 2013); previously CFO at several acquired technology firms.

  • Erez Dagan

    President of Wayve; previously spent ~20 years at Mobileye, including EVP of Product & Strategy.

  • Eric Adamson

    Co-founder and CEO of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017 with Tim Brackbill), maker of precision strawberry and table-grape harvesting robots; a Stanford engineer wit...

  • Eric Ashleman

    Eric D. Ashleman is the Chief Executive Officer of IDEX Corporation, leading the global industrial company's portfolio of fluidics, fire and rescue, and precisi...

  • Eric Diehr

    Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team.

  • Eric Jang

    Former VP of AI at 1X Technologies (departed January 2026); previously a research scientist at Google Brain.

  • Eric Litman

    Four-time entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Aescape. Bringing together expertise from Amazon, Apple, Fitbit for AI-powered robotic massage.

  • Eric Schmidt

    Former Google CEO who launched Perennial Autonomy (originally as White Stork) in 2023 to develop AI-enabled loitering munitions and counter-drone systems.

  • Eric Schweikardt

    Founder of Modular Robotics; invented the Cubelets modular robotic blocks while working on a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Erik Dyrkoren

    CEO and co-founder of Blueye Robotics, a spinoff from NTNU developing underwater ROVs for inspection and maritime security.

  • Erik Nieves

    Founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics in San Antonio, Texas, developing AI vision software for robotic parcel handling.

  • Esa Rautalinko

    Esa Rautalinko serves as President and CEO of Patria Plc, leading the company through a period of strong growth driven by vehicle programmes.

  • Esben Ostergaard

    Co-founder of Universal Robots in 2005 at the University of Southern Denmark. Pioneered the commercial collaborative robot market.

  • Ethan Thornton

    Founder and CEO of Mach Industries. Founded the defense tech company at age 21, now valued at .8B.

  • Eugene Izhikevich

    CEO and co-founder of Brain Corp, developing the BrainOS autonomous navigation platform deployed at 2,000+ Walmart and Sam's Club locations.

  • Evan Beard

    Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of Standard Bots. Leading advocate for American robotics manufacturing and national robotics policy.

  • Evan Tao

    Co-founder and CEO of Chestnut Robotics (formerly TetherIA). Previously a core member of the dexterous hand team for Tesla Optimus and worked on Apple Vision Pr...

  • Evan Wineland

    Co-founder and CEO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Kaan Dogrusoz at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015.

  • Eyal Barnea

    15+ years in robotics and advanced computing. Previously VP Product at Hailo and held robotics leadership roles at Intel.

  • Eyal Cohen

    Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics. Career dedicated to building electric and autonomous vehicle technology.

  • Ezra Czyzyk

    VP Engineering Zipline; leads aircraft design, autonomy software, and delivery mechanism engineering.

  • Fabio Puglia

    Fabio Puglia is founder and president of Oversonic Robotics. He holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics (Astrophysics) from the University of Milan and previou...

  • Fareed Aljawhari

    Founder and CEO of Micropolis Robotics in Dubai, developing autonomous patrol and security robots in collaboration with Dubai Police and government entities.

  • Federico Moro

    Head of Venture Studio at e-Novia, responsible for start-ups including Yape. Leads the revamped scouting programme evaluating projects at Politecnico di Milano,...

  • Felipe Chávez Cortés

    CEO and co-founder of Kiwibot, the Berkeley-based sidewalk delivery robot company that has completed 150,000+ deliveries and partnered with Sodexo for college c...

  • Fernand Badano

    Co-founder and Managing Director of Quantum Surgical, previously worked at Medtech SA.

  • Francesco Ferro

    Co-founder and CEO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona-based humanoid and service robot company. PAL makes TIAGo (mobile manipulation), TALOS (industrial ...

  • Frank Blase

    CEO of igus, leading the Cologne-based motion plastics company to EUR 1.1B in sales. Developing self-lubricating components for robotics.

  • Frank Dimina

    Chief Revenue Officer of Shield AI.

  • Fred C. Mannix

    Canadian construction magnate who founded Loram Maintenance of Way in 1954; the name 'Loram' is a contraction of 'long-range Mannix'. Deceased.

  • Fred Parietti

    Co-founder and CEO of Multiply Labs. Founded in 2016 with the intuition that robotic manufacturing can fulfill personalized medicine.

  • Frederik Brantner

    Co-founder and CEO of Magazino GmbH, leading Munich-based mobile robotics company acquired by Jungheinrich AG in 2022.

  • Fredrik Karlsson

    CEO of Lifco AB from 1993 to 2018, architect of Lifco's serial acquisition model. Left in 2018 to co-found and lead Röko, a sector-agnostic serial acquirer.

  • Fredrik Malmgren

    CEO of Cognibotics.

  • Gabe Sibley

    Founder and CEO of Verdant Robotics; an AI and robotics researcher (SLAM/perception) who co-founded the precision-agriculture company behind the SharpShooter wi...

  • Gabriel Dymowski

    Founder of Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket).

  • Gajan Mohanarajah

    Co-founder and CEO of Rapyuta Robotics, spun out of ETH Zurich. Leading cloud robotics platform development in Tokyo.

  • Gary Chen

    Gary Chen is Co-Founder and CEO of Raise Robotics. A construction and technology veteran who started the company in 2021 with Conley Oster.

  • Gary Chen

    Co-founder of Raise Robotics (founded 2021), the construction facade-installation robotics company.

  • Gary Steele

    CEO of Shield AI (since May 2025); previously CEO of Splunk (through its $28B Cisco acquisition) and founding CEO of Proofpoint.

  • Geir Haoy

    CEO of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA since 2016. Norwegian defense and maritime technology company. Kongsberg Maritime ASA planned for IPO listing April 2026. Q1 2026 r...

  • Geoff Howe

    Co-founder and CEO of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Mike Howe; acquired by Textron Systems in 2018); co-pioneer of tracked robotic vehicles includ...

  • Geordie Rose

    Co-founder of Sanctuary AI; previously founded quantum-computing pioneer D-Wave Systems and AI company Kindred. Stepped down from the Sanctuary CEO role in late...

  • George Kalligeros

    Co-founder and CEO of Aseon Labs. Previously founded Pushme (battery-swap network for micromobility, acquired by TIER-Dott), served as VP Hardware at TIER-Dott,...

  • George M. Whitesides

    Harvard chemist whose research group pioneered soft robotics; founded Soft Robotics Inc. (2012), now rebranded Oxipital AI, which commercialized soft pneumatic ...

  • George Ren

    Founder and CEO of the Segway Navimow division, leading the team that developed the world's best-selling wire-free robotic lawn mower.

  • Gilbert Gagnaire

    Founder and CEO of EasyMile, the French autonomous-shuttle company behind the EZ10; previously co-founded fintech firm Fermat.

  • Girish Chowdhary

    Co-founder of EarthSense (maker of the TerraSentia under-canopy field robot) and a robotics/agricultural-AI professor at the University of Illinois; PhD from Ge...

  • Giuseppe Maria Prisco

    Co-founder and CEO of Medical Microinstruments (MMI; founded 2015 near Pisa), maker of the Symani microsurgery robot.

  • Gokul N A

    Co-founder of CynLr. Working on object intelligence for robotics.

  • Goutham Subramanian

    VP of Software at Saronic; previously at Anduril.

  • Greg Reid

    President and CEO of Kraken Robotics, a Canadian marine technology company. 77% revenue CAGR over four years. Acquired Covelya Group for 15M to expand subsea de...

  • Gregor Kolls

    Co-founder and CEO of Filics. Leading Munich-based robotics startup building ultra-flat pallet transport AMRs.

  • Gregory Mark

    Founder of Markforged, invented the first carbon fiber 3D printer. Previously served as CEO before becoming Chairman.

  • Gregory Penza

    Founder and CEO of ULC Technologies (formerly ULC Robotics, founded 2001), which builds robotic, drone, and inspection systems for the energy and utility sector...

  • Guidong Chu

    Co-founder and CFO of R-Storm Technology, a Cambridge, MA-based robotics company developing high-altitude cleaning robots.

  • Gundbert Scherf

    Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing, the European defense-AI company; previously a German Ministry of Defence official and a McKinsey partner.

  • Guo Jiajun

    Co-founder and CEO of DEEP Robotics (DeepRobotics, founded 2017), Hangzhou-based Chinese quadruped robot company. Makes the Jueying and Lite3 quadruped robots f...

  • Guo Renjie

    Former China president of Dreame who founded Zeroth (Suzhou JoyIn Intelligent Technology) in 2024 to build interactive companion robots. Forbes 30 Under 30 hono...

  • Guy German

    Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), maker of autonomous drywall-finishing and painting construction robots.

  • H.J. Terry Suh

    CTO of CarbonSix. PhD from MIT CSAIL. Previously worked with Boston Dynamics Robotics and AI Institute, Toyota Research Institute, and NASA Jet Propulsion Labor...

  • Hagai Zyss

    CEO of Autotalks, now VP of Product Management at Qualcomm following the June 2025 acquisition.

  • Hamza Allawi

    Co-founder and COO of BellHopp. Previously Director at Pent United Ltd and Risk Associate at National Bank of Kuwait.

  • Hannah Brown

    CCO and co-founder of Organifarms, leading commercial strategy for the BERRY strawberry harvesting robot.

  • Hannah Brown

    Co-founder and CCO of Organifarms, the German maker of the BERRY autonomous strawberry-harvesting robot, which grew out of a university hackathon team.

  • Hannah Teichmann

    Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), maker of the Symani Surgical System for microsurgery.

  • Hao Chun

    Director General of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), overseeing China's human spaceflight program including the Tiangong space station and the crewed lunar...

  • Harri Valpola

    Founder and principal scientist of ZenRobotics; pioneered AI-based waste sorting technology based on his research in machine learning and computational neurosci...

  • Hasham Khan

    Co-founder of BellHopp. Previously Account Executive at Zscaler and Salesforce, with prior business development experience at a company acquired by Google.

  • Havard Halvorsen

    CEO of nLink since its founding, leading the company's construction robotics strategy and Hilti partnership.

  • Haw Chen

    CEO of Techman Robot, the Taiwanese collaborative robot manufacturer and subsidiary of Quanta Storage.

  • He Tao

    CEO and co-founder of CowaRobot. Holds degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

  • He Xiangjian

    Founded Midea Group in 1968, building it from a bottle cap workshop into one of the worlds largest appliance manufacturers and a major robotics player via the K...

  • Hedwig Maes

    CEO of Agidens. Senior executive with 30+ years of international experience.

  • Hendrik Kramer

    Co-founder and CEO of FERNRIDE (spun out of TU Munich in 2019 with Maximilian Fisser and Jean-Michael Georg); makes tele-operated/autonomous electric terminal t...

  • Henrik Lund-Nielsen

    Founder and CEO of COBOD International, a leading supplier of 3D construction printers; a Danish serial entrepreneur.

  • Henrik Schumann-Olsen

    Co-founder of Zivid, transitioned from CEO to CTO and CMO roles. Leading technology and marketing at the Norwegian 3D vision company.

  • Henry Hu

    Founder and CEO of Cafe X, founded in 2014. Pioneered robotic coffee bars and pivoted from retail stores to airport locations.

  • Herbert Diess

    CEO of Volkswagen Group 2018-2022. Led VW's major investments in autonomous driving including the $2.6B investment in Argo AI (acquired Ford's stake) and CARIAD...

  • Herbert Rubens

    Founder and CEO of Persistent Systems, leading the company's MANET technology development for defense and government markets since 2007.

  • Hiroshi Yamakawa

    President of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) since 2018. Previously served at ISAS and JAXA in various engineering and leadership roles.

  • Hisashi Taniguchi

    Founder and CEO of ZMP Inc., established in 2001. Leading Japanese autonomous driving and robotics company, partnering with Tokyo taxi firms.

  • Homayoon Kazerooni

    Dr. Homayoon Kazerooni is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and founder of suitX (US Bionics). He is a pioneer in wearable exoskeletons, prev...

  • Howard Huang

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of Orbbec. Trained engineer specializing in optical measurement. Founded Orbbec in 2013 and became a billionaire on China's AI robot b...

  • Howard Paul

    Howard 'Hap' Paul was a veterinarian who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Dr. William Bargar at the University of California, Davis.

  • Howard Wu

    Co-founder and CEO of Antobot. Previously worked on embedded systems. Based at the Chelmsford Arise Innovation Hub.

  • Hu Xiaobo

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen LeiShen Intelligent System Co., Ltd (LSLiDAR). Director of China Lidar Engineering.

  • Hu Xinyi

    Founder and CEO of Boonray Technology, launched the company in July 2015 with former members of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Intelligent Robotics Laborator...

  • Hu Yusong

    Chief AI Architect at One Robotics. Leading the AI foundation model team (OneModel: embodied intelligence VLA model). Reported via The Humanoid Hub lab tour (X,...

  • Huang Zehua

    Founder and CEO of Zeron, a Chinese electric heavy-duty truck startup. Former co-founder of TuSimple. Raised 00M B2 round, turned operating cash flow positive Q...

  • Hung Bui

    Founder of VinAI.

  • Ian Cohen

    Co-founder of Toggle Industries (founded 2016), the automated rebar-fabrication robotics company.

  • Ido Genosar

    Co-founder and CEO of Verobotics (founded 2021), the Israeli maker of AI facade-cleaning/inspection wall-climbing robots.

  • Igino Cafiero

    Co-founder and CEO of Bear Flag Robotics. Led development of autonomous driving technology for farm tractors, acquired by John Deere for 50M.

  • Ignacio Galiana

    Co-founder and CEO of Verve Motion (2020-present); PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University; former staff engineer and program manager at the Wyss ...

  • Ingmar Posner

    Co-founder of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica); professor of applied AI at the University of Oxford.

  • Ingo Seebach

    Founder of Dedrone, established the counter-drone company in 2014. Led the company through multiple funding rounds and its acquisition by Axon in 2024.

  • Isaac Roberts

    Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously co-founded computer-vision startup Replica Labs.

  • Itay Levitan

    Co-founder of Verobotics (founded 2021), the building-facade cleaning and inspection robotics company.

  • Ivan Pisarenko

    Founder and CEO of Clone Robotics (founded 2021), Warsaw, Poland. Clone is building Torso, a humanoid upper-body platform with tendon-driven actuators designed ...

  • J. Neal Blue

    Chairman and CEO of General Atomics, the parent company of GA-ASI. Purchased General Atomics with brother Linden Blue in 1986.

  • Jaakko Happonen

    Founder of Trombia Technologies (parent Snowek Oy), the Finnish maker of the Trombia Free autonomous street sweeper.

  • Jack Morrison

    Co-founder and CEO of Scythe Robotics (founded 2018); a computer-vision and robotics-software engineer who began at MITRE building CV systems for UAV imagery an...

  • Jack Xu

    Co-founder of Proception. University of Waterloo TRON alum, previously at Atlassian. YC W25 batch.

  • Jackie Wu

    Co-founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), maker of the Corvus One fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone.

  • Jacob Hanchar

    CEO of Digital Dream Labs, a Pittsburgh-based ed-tech and robotics company. Led the acquisition of Anki's assets including Cozmo and Vector robots.

  • Jacob Leach

    Chairman, President and CEO of Dexcom, leading the company's continuous glucose monitoring innovation and global expansion.

  • Jagannath Raju

    Founder of Systemantics India. Builds affordable articulated industrial robots for factory floors.

  • Jagdeep Singh

    Serial entrepreneur who previously founded QuantumScape (solid-state battery company) and Infinera (telecom equipment). Founded Rhoda AI to bring video-predicti...

  • Jake Loosararian

    Co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA), which develops robots for inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure (power plants, refineries...

  • Jakub Bartoszek

    Co-founder and CEO of MAB Robotics in Poznan, Poland. Led the company to a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the Honey Badger quadruped robot.

  • James Cordle

    Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  • James Jordan

    Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  • James Li

    CEO of Honor, leading the company's expansion from smartphones into robotics and AI. Announced $10B AI investment and unveiled the Honor Lightning humanoid robo...

  • James Wells

    CEO of Sanctuary AI (current); rose from Chief Commercial Officer and VP Corporate Development, becoming CEO after co-founder Geordie Rose stepped down in 2024....

  • James Zhou

    Founder and CEO of UBTech Robotics (HKEX: 9880). Shenzhen-based humanoid and smart service robot maker. Walker industrial humanoid deployed at manufacturing fac...

  • Jamie Shotton

    Chief Scientist of Wayve; previously Partner Director of Science at Microsoft (Kinect body tracking, HoloLens 2). PhD in computer vision from the University of ...

  • Jan Zizka

    Co-founder and CEO of Brightpick (autonomous fulfillment robots); also co-founded Photoneo, the 3D machine-vision company acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2025...

  • Jan Žižka

    Jan Žižka is CEO and Co-Founder of Photoneo. He was a PhD student at Comenius University in Bratislava with expertise in machine vision and AI.

  • Jaret Matthews

    Aerospace engineer; founder and CEO of Venturi Astrolab, maker of the FLEX lunar rover. Previously an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and SpaceX.

  • Jarmo Ruohonen

    CEO of ZenRobotics at the time of the Terex acquisition in August 2022.

  • Jason Kim

    CEO of Firefly Aerospace, bringing 25 years of aerospace expertise. Former US Air Force. Leading development of small and medium-lift launch vehicles.

  • Jason Ma

    Co-founder and CTO of Dyna Robotics; previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, NVIDIA AI and Meta AI; lead author of the Eureka paper. PhD from the UP...

  • Jason Richards

    CEO of Daxbot, leading the company's urban service robot deployment strategy across U.S. cities.

  • Jay Li

    Co-founder and CEO of Proception. Former technical lead on Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program. Tesla sued Li in June 2025 alleging trade secret theft; the c...

  • Jay Simons

    General Partner at BOND Capital, former president of Atlassian and partner at Kleiner Perkins.

  • Jayakrishnan T

    Founder and CEO of Asimov Robotics, a top 10 robotics company in India. Acquired by Zoho Corporation for deeptech R&D.

  • JD Ambati

    Founder of EverestLabs (Jagadeesh Ambati), an AI and robotics company automating material recovery facilities via the RecycleOS platform. Over 20 years of exper...

  • Jean Crosetti

    CEO and Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Met co-founder Patricia Apostol through the Entrepreneurs First program. Brings commercial and operational experience to ...

  • Jean-Michael Georg

    Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous-electric terminal-tractor company.

  • Jeff Cardenas

    Co-founder and CEO of Apptronik (founded 2016), the Austin humanoid robotics company spun out of the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab.

  • Jeff Gee

    Co-founder of Simbe Robotics, the retail-inventory-robotics company behind the Tally robot.

  • Jeff Lotz

    Co-founder of Deep Trekker (founded 2010), the underwater-ROV company.

  • Jeffery M. Watts

    CEO of Fastenal, succeeding Daniel Florness in December 2025. Previously served as President and Chief Sales Officer.

  • Jehyuk Kim

    Co-founder and Co-CEO of CarbonSix. AI and robotics researcher with academic experience from MIT, Yale University, Seoul National University, and KAIST. Leads d...

  • Jen Betz

    Chief Financial Officer of Saildrone; previously CFO of Element Energy and a corporate controller at Maxim Integrated.

  • Jennifer F. Scanlon

    President and CEO of UL Solutions since 2019, leading the company through its April 2024 IPO on the NYSE. Previously served as president and CEO of USG Corporat...

  • Jens Peder Kristensen

    Founder of TinyMobileRobots (Malling, Denmark, founded 2015), maker of the TinyLineMarker autonomous sports-field and road line-marking robots.

  • Jens Riegger

    Co-founder and CEO of fruitcore robotics GmbH in Konstanz. Previously worked on robotics research projects before founding the company in 2017.

  • Jerry Chen

    Surgeon and serial entrepreneur. Founded Brain Navi Biotechnology in 2015 to develop robotic surgical navigation technology.

  • Jerry Pratt

    Founding CTO of Figure AI (departed mid-2024); previously a senior research scientist at IHMC for ~20 years; later co-founded Persona AI.

  • Jesse Lyu

    Founder of Rabbit Inc.

  • Jiang Zheyuan

    Tsinghua University electronics engineering dropout who founded Noetix Robotics in 2023 at age 25, leading the company to over 1,000 robot orders in two years.

  • Jianyu Chen

    Founder of RobotEra, a Beijing-based humanoid robot company incubated by Tsinghua University. Founded in 2023. Raised over 00M led by SF Group, HSG, and IDG Cap...

  • Jim Alecxih

    Jim Alecxih is CEO of Virtual Incision, leading the company's commercialization of the MIRA miniaturized surgical robotics platform.

  • Jim Keller

    CEO of Tenstorrent since May 2026; previously CTO from January 2021. Legendary chip architect: designed AMD K7/K8 microarchitectures (x86-64 co-inventor), Apple...

  • Jim Rowan

    CEO of Volvo Cars since March 2022. Leads Volvo Cars' autonomous and software-defined vehicle strategy, including Zenseact (AV software spinout, founded 2021) a...

  • Joaquin Duato

    CEO of Johnson & Johnson since 2023, previously Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee. Oversees the company's MedTech and Innovative Medicine segments.

  • Joe (Xu) Dong

    Co-founder & CTO of Chestnut Robotics. Building robots that can reliably use their hands in real-world environments. Previously worked on AI models at XPeng Mot...

  • Joe Augenbraun

    Founder of Neato Robotics, a Stanford grad student who started the robot vacuum company using LiDAR-based navigation technology.

  • Joe Chen

    Co-founder of Anduril Industries; previously a hardware product lead at Oculus VR and a paratrooper in the US Army National Guard.

  • Joe Creed

    Named Caterpillar CEO in 2025 and chairman in 2026, having previously served as COO. Leads the parent company's global mining and construction equipment busines...

  • Joe Lonsdale

    Co-founder of Epirus, managing partner of 8VC, and co-founder of Palantir Technologies.

  • Joe Moye

    Founder and CEO of Beep, the autonomous-shuttle mobility-as-a-service operator.

  • Joe Wolfel

    Co-founder and CEO of Terradepth. Leading the development of autonomous ocean-mapping submersibles.

  • Joel Anderson

    Founder and CEO of ZeroMark. Building AI-powered defense technology for precision targeting.

  • Joel Gibbard

    Co-founder and CEO of Open Bionics (founded 2014); a UK roboticist who developed the low-cost, 3D-printed bionic Hero Arm. Appointed MBE.

  • Johann Bordais

    Johann Bordais is CEO of Eve Air Mobility, appointed in August 2023. He previously led Embraer's Services & Support business since its foundation in 2016, trans...

  • Johannes Haas

    CEO of noonee GmbH who led the company through its acquisition by Carl Stahl GmbH in June 2024.

  • John A. Swanson

    American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Ansys (as Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) in 1970 after leaving Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory; John Fritz ...

  • John Arne Breivik

    Co-founder and CEO of Stingray Marine Solutions, the Norwegian salmon sea-lice laser-robotics company.

  • John Burd

    Co-founded Dexcom in 1999 and led the development of the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitoring system.

  • John Carmack

    Legendary game developer from id Software who joined Oculus VR as CTO in 2013; later left to focus on AI and VR at Meta.

  • John Fluke Sr.

    Founded Fluke Corporation in 1948 as the John Fluke Engineering Company in Springdale, Connecticut, producing electrical test and measurement equipment.

  • John Hayes

    Co-founder and CEO of Ghost Autonomy (founded 2017), an autonomous driving software company for consumer vehicles. Previously co-founded Pure Storage (NYSE: PST...

  • John Mastrototaro

    CEO of Movano Health.

  • John Morgan

    Head of Manufacturing at Saronic; previously spent ~9 years leading Raptor engine production at SpaceX.

  • John Mustin

    President of Saildrone; a retired US Navy Vice Admiral and former Chief of Navy Reserve.

  • John Tenet

    Founder and CEO of CHAOS Industries. Also co-founded Epirus. Former partner at 8VC.

  • Johnny Carni

    Founder and CEO of WaiV Robotics. Previously developed the technology under an R&D entity called Dronelander before launching WaiV Robotics.

  • Jon Gruen

    CEO of Fortem Technologies, a counter-drone defense company. Former Lockheed Martin executive with defense industry experience.

  • Jon Sigurdsson

    Jon Sigurdsson has led Össur as President & CEO since 1996, guiding the company through its IPO and global expansion to over USD 600M in annual revenue.

  • Jonathan Rothberg

    Scientist and entrepreneur who invented next-generation DNA sequencing; founded Butterfly Network in 2011 after seeing a talk by MIT's Ed Boyden. Previously fou...

  • Jordan Sanders

    Co-founder and COO of Westmag. Previously spent a decade in robotics with commercial leadership experience at Slip Robotics. Furman University graduate.

  • Jorge Milburn

    VP of Sales at 1X Technologies; previously Global Head of Growth at Tesla.

  • Joseph M. DeVivo

    Appointed President and CEO of Butterfly Network in 2020, succeeding founder Jonathan Rothberg as Interim CEO. Also serves as Chairman of the Board.

  • Joseph Sullivan

    Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Kevin Sullivan in 2015; serves as Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for Dax robot hardware design.

  • Josh Araujo

    CEO of Forterra. Leading the company's autonomous driving system deployment for military and commercial vehicles.

  • Josh Merel

    Robot locomotion expert and former Google DeepMind researcher; co-authored Nature paper on AI-powered virtual rat. Previously worked at CTRL-labs, which was acq...

  • Juan Salcedo

    Co-founder of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot); previously a principal engineer at MAKO Surgical.

  • Judah L.

    Co-Founder at Robot.com. Previously Founder & CEO of Nickelytics.

  • Judson Kauffman

    Co-founder of Terradepth.

  • Juho Nummela

    CEO of Ponsse, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cut-to-length forest machines, based in Vierema, Finland.

  • Julian Ma

    Founder and CEO of Inceptio Technology, leading Chinese autonomous trucking. Targeting mid-2028 for L4 commercialization with 78M in total funding.

  • Julian Nordt

    Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  • Julien Lederman

    Appointed Interim CEO in December 2024 after serving as VP Corporate Development since March 2021.

  • Jun Pei

    Co-founder and CEO of Cepton (2016-2023); physicist and entrepreneur; led Cepton from founding to acquisition by Continental AG (closed June 2023). Cepton devel...

  • Jungho Lee

    CEO of Rainbow Robotics, leading the Korean robotics company's development of the RB-Y1 bimanual mobile manipulator and HUBO humanoid platform.

  • Justin Birtz

    VP of People Operations at Apptronik; previously in people operations at iRobot and Cellino.

  • Justin Effron

    Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously co-founded ALICE with Alex Shashou.

  • Kaan Dogrusoz

    Co-founder and CTO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Evan Wineland at Carnegie Mellon University. Leads the technical development of t...

  • Kaity Fischer

    VP of Commercial and Operations at Wayve.

  • Kaname Hayashi

    Founder and CEO of GROOVE X (founded 2018), maker of the LOVOT companion robot; previously Pepper product leader at SoftBank Robotics and a product-planning man...

  • Karl Faulhaber

    Managing Director of FAULHABER, leading the family-run group and overseeing global supply chains and growth markets.

  • Karl Watfern

    Co-founder and CTO of Hullbot, the autonomous hull-cleaning robotics company.

  • Karol Hausman

    Co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence; previously a senior research scientist in Google Brain / Google DeepMind robotics and adjunct faculty at Stanford.

  • Kartik Tiwari

    Kartik Tiwari is CTO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x technical founder, he previously founded Starsky Robotics (YC S16), which built the world's firs...

  • Kay Sheils Kingsbury

    Chief Financial Officer of Apptronik; previously CFO at ICON Technology and an investment-banking MD. MBA from Stanford GSB.

  • Keenan Wyrobek

    Co-founder, CTO, and Product Architect of Zipline (founded 2014). Leads perception-based autonomy and new product teams. PhD in Robotics from Stanford Universit...

  • Keith Gunura

    Co-founder and CEO of noonee, developed the Chairless Chair concept at ETH Zurich in 2009. Born in Zimbabwe, holds M.Sc in Nuclear Engineering and BEng in Mecha...

  • Ken Goldberg

    Co-founder of Ambi Robotics, UC Berkeley professor and BCNM faculty. Pioneering AI-powered parcel sorting robotics.

  • Kenji Yamaguchi

    Representative Director, President and CEO of FANUC Corporation since 2019. Joined FANUC in 1993. Previously served as Director, President and COO (2016-2019). ...

  • Kenny Lee

    CEO and co-founder of Aigen, developing solar-powered autonomous agricultural robots for chemical-free farming.

  • Kevin Albert

    Founder and CEO of Canvas. Former Boston Dynamics engineer who built the drywall finishing robot company to address construction labor shortages.

  • Kevin Garell

    SVP of Services & Support at Apptronik; previously led Global Services & Support at Boston Dynamics.

  • Kevin Peterson

    Co-founder and CTO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader.

  • Kevin Sartori

    Co-founder of Auterion, established the company in 2017 alongside Lorenz Meier.

  • Kevin Sullivan

    Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Joseph Sullivan in 2015; the brothers previously developed tech for emergency responders.

  • Kim Butler

    Kim Butler, CPA, ICD appointed as Executive Vice President for Defense at Kraken Robotics. Strategic leadership addition for defense expansion.

  • Kim Yoon-ki

    CEO of HL Robotics, subsidiary of HL Holdings.

  • Kingsley Afemikhe

    Chief Financial Officer of Shield AI.

  • Konrad Fagertun

    Founder and business developer of nLink, originated the mobile drilling robot concept and won RoboBusiness Pitchfire in 2014.

  • Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

    Co-founder of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off) and a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; her snake-robotics research underpins Eelume's ...

  • Kuldar Väärsi

    Founder and CEO of Milrem Robotics, Estonia's leading defense robotics company. EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 class member from Estonia.

  • Kurt Azarbarzin

    Medtech veteran appointed CEO of Precision IO Group in February 2026. Former founder and CEO of SurgiQuest, CEO of EndoQuest Robotics and Verb Surgical (J&J/Goo...

  • Kyle Cobb

    Co-founder, president, and CFO of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), maker of robotic strawberry- and apple-harvesting systems.

  • Kyle Edelberg

    Chief Engineer at Figure AI; previously an engineer at Boston Dynamics and NASA JPL.

  • Kyong-Sok Chang

    Founder and CEO of Wonik Robotics, a Korean robotics manufacturer. Produces robotic arms and humanoid robots. Partner with RLWRLD for physical AI.

  • Lachy Groom

    Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; investor and operator, previously an early executive at Stripe.

  • Lael Odhner

    Co-founder and CTO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. Developed the iRobot-Harvard-Yale (iH...

  • Lars Grimstad

    Co-founder of Saga Robotics with Dr. Pal Johan From. Co-developed the Thorvald autonomous robot platform.

  • Lars Renstrom

    Chairman of the Tetra Laval Group Board since June 2016. Former President and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group (2004-2016), with prior leadership roles at Seco Tools...

  • Laura Major

    CEO of Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv autonomous driving joint venture. Deploying IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas with Uber partnership.

  • Lauren Fletcher

    Engineer and scientist; co-founder of Dendra Systems (originally BioCarbon Engineering); previously spent over 20 years at NASA.

  • Le Anh Son

    Co-founder and CTO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Associate Professor.

  • Lei Jun

    Founder and CEO of Xiaomi Corporation (founded 2010), one of China's largest consumer electronics and smartphone companies. Lei Jun launched Xiaomi's robot init...

  • Lei Yang

    CEO of IntBot.

  • Leif Jentoft

    Co-founder and former Chief Strategy Officer of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Bioengineering from Harvard University (Robert Howe lab)...

  • Leo Zhou

    Co-founder and CEO of Nordbo Robotics.

  • Li Mingyang

    CEO of JAKA Robotics, leading the Chinese collaborative robot manufacturer through 50M+ Series D funding and STAR Market IPO filing.

  • Li Qingdu

    Professor with 20 years of experience in bionics and robotics. Founded DroidUp to build biomimetic humanoid robots for healthcare and companion applications.

  • Li Tong

    Founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics (KEENON Technology); also known as Tony Li. Founded the company in Shanghai in 2010 after working in robotics at Microsoft. B...

  • Limor Fried

    Founder of Adafruit Industries.

  • Lin Xiqiang

    Deputy Director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

  • Linden S. Blue

    Chief Executive Officer of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), the division responsible for manufacturing the MQ-9 Reaper and Predator UAV families. ...

  • Lindon Gao

    Co-founder and CEO of Dyna Robotics; previously founder and CEO of checkout-automation company Caper AI (acquired by Instacart).

  • Lior Elazary

    Co-founder and CEO of inVia Robotics; met co-founders Dan Parks and Randolph Voorhies during robotics PhD studies at USC; previously co-founded what became Veri...

  • Lior Tal

    CEO of Cyngn (NASDAQ: CYN), the DriveMod industrial-autonomy company, since 2016; previously led international growth and partnerships at Facebook.

  • Liu Guoqing

    Co-founder and CEO of Momenta Global (HKEX: 6880), a Chinese autonomous driving company. Raised 52M in Hong Kong IPO. Valued at 4.8B. Backed by GM and Tencent.

  • Liu Peichao

    Chairman and CEO of Dobot, a Shenzhen-based robotic arm company. Revenue CN¥286.75M in 2023. Expanding into humanoid robots with Atom.

  • Liu Wenjie

    Co-founder and CEO of LimX Dynamics (founded 2021), Shenzhen-based humanoid and legged robot company making the CL-1 biped and W1 quadruped. Previously a roboti...

  • Liu Yao

    Co-founder and CEO of Kepler Robotics (founded 2022), a Chinese humanoid robot company. Previously at DJI. Building humanoid robots for logistics and industrial...

  • Liyang Suo

    CEO of Peitian Robot Group.

  • Ljubisa Bajic

    Founder of Tenstorrent (2016, Toronto); CEO from founding until May 2026 when he transitioned to CTO as Jim Keller took the CEO role. Serial entrepreneur in chi...

  • Lorenz Meier

    Founder and CEO of Auterion, creator of Pixhawk open-source autopilot platform. Leading Auterion's mission to provide AI-powered autonomous systems software for...

  • Lorenzo Rossi

    CEO of Movyon, leading the company's mission as the first technological operator for motorway and urban mobility.

  • Lucien Blondel

    Co-founder and CTO of Quantum Surgical, previously worked with Bertin Nahum at Medtech SA.

  • Luis Sentis

    Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Apptronik; associate professor at UT Austin and a former NASA Johnson Space Center contractor. PhD from Stanford.

  • Lukas Silberbauer

    Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010.

  • Lukas Zanger

    Co-founder of Magazino GmbH, Munich-based mobile robotics company.

  • Luo Bingrong

    Co-founder and CEO of Geek+ (GeekPlus, founded 2015), Beijing-based AMR and robotic logistics company. Geek+ is one of the world's largest AMR manufacturers, se...

  • Luo Xiaogang

    CEO and founder of SIYI Technology, established the Shenzhen-based drone communication and gimbal technology company in 2017.

  • Mack Traynor

    CEO of ReconRobotics, leading the tactical micro-robot company serving military and law enforcement markets.

  • Maitrai Maka

    Naval architect and founder of Rekise Marine with over a decade of experience in marine robotic systems. Leads the company's full-stack approach to autonomous v...

  • Manuel Frey

    Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH. Worked with Jens Riegger on robotics research before starting the company in 2017.

  • Marc Grossman

    Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  • Marc Rosen

    CEO of Catalyst Brands.

  • Marc Wietfeld

    Marc Wietfeld is co-founder and CEO of ARX Robotics, a German defense technology company developing autonomous UGVs. He is a former German Army officer who foun...

  • Marco Hutter

    Co-founder and CTO of ANYbotics; Associate Professor at ETH Zurich RSL; pioneer in legged robot locomotion and the ANYmal quadruped platform. Branco Weiss Fello...

  • Marco Monteiro

    Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA). Co-founded with Jake Loosararian in 2013. Background in robotics engineering.

  • Maria Telleria

    CTO and co-founder of Canvas. Studied mechanical engineering at MIT and spent her career in robotics.

  • Marius Fehr

    Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the Zurich aerial-robotics company behind the Voliro T contact-inspection drone.

  • Mark Barrocas

    CEO of SharkNinja since 2008, leading the home appliance company's Shark robot vacuums and Ninja kitchen products.

  • Mark Bissell

    Chairman and CEO of Bissell Inc., a fourth-generation family-owned company founded in 1876. Leads the floor cleaning company's robot vacuum product line.

  • Mark Chiappetta

    Mark Chiappetta is President and CEO of Oxipital AI (formerly Soft Robotics). He has raised 2M in venture capital and led the company's transformation from soft...

  • Mark McCord

    Co-founder and CTO of Cepton (2016-2023); optical engineer and research scientist; co-developed Cepton's patented MMT LiDAR architecture with Jun Pei. Post-acqu...

  • Mark Oleynik

    Founder and CEO of Moley Robotics, creator of the world's first fully-automated robotic kitchen. Russian and British mathematician, computer scientist, and entr...

  • Mark Rourke

    Mark Rourke serves as President and CEO of Schneider National, a Green Bay-based multimodal transportation provider with approximately $6 billion in annual reve...

  • Mark Telford

    Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with his wife Nicola), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm; stepped down as managing director ...

  • Marko Pejkovic

    Marko Pejkovic is CEO of Verne, the Croatian robotaxi company. He co-founded Verne with Mate Rimac and Adriano Mudri, and led the launch of Europe's first comme...

  • Markus Hutter

    Co-founder of ANYbotics (2016) and Professor at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab. Co-inventor of the ANYmal quadruped platform. Scientific advisor to ANYbotics ...

  • Markus Schlitt

    CEO of Holon (Benteler's autonomous-shuttle brand) since May 2025, leading the HOLON mover toward series production.

  • Martin Frost

    Co-founded CMR Surgical in 2014 and served as CEO. CBE recipient with over 20 years of commercial leadership experience.

  • Martin Herrenknecht

    Founded Herrenknecht in 1975 with six employees and grew it into the worldwide market leader for tunnel boring machines, manufacturing the TBMs that bored the G...

  • Mary Meeker

    Legendary technology analyst and investor, founder of BOND Capital in 2018 after leaving Kleiner Perkins. Known for her annual Internet Trends Report (published...

  • Masahiro Ogawa

    President and CEO of Yaskawa Electric Corporation (TSE: 6506) since April 2020. Joined Yaskawa in 1984 and rose through engineering and business leadership role...

  • Masatoshi Kumagai

    Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of GMO Internet Group. Designated 2026 as the 'First Year of Humanoids' and established GMO AIR to drive the social implementati...

  • Massimiliano Benci

    CEO of e-Novia S.p.A. since the 2023-2024 restructuring. Led the relaunch of e-Novia after the post-IPO crisis, refocusing on academia-industry collaboration.

  • Massimiliano Simi

    Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), the robotic-microsurgery company behind the Symani system.

  • Massimo Banzi

    Co-founder of Arduino, helped invent the Arduino open-source microcontroller that has inspired thousands of makers and robotics projects worldwide.

  • Masuo Tadano

    Founded Tadano Ltd. in 1948 in Takamatsu, Japan, starting as a steel fabricator in 1919 before manufacturing cargo handling equipment and eventually becoming Ja...

  • Matanya Horowitz

    Co-founder and CEO of AMP Robotics (Denver, CO), a pioneer in AI-guided robotic systems for recycling and waste sorting. Founded 2015. PhD Caltech (control & dy...

  • Mate Rimac

    Mate Rimac is founder of Verne and founder/CEO of Rimac Automobili (Rimac Group), a Croatian electric vehicle technology company. He also serves as CEO of Bugat...

  • Mathew DeDonato

    Director of Robotic Systems at Figure AI; previously at Woven Planet / Toyota Research Institute.

  • Mathieu Letombe

    CEO of Withings, the French connected-health-device company. Not a company founder.

  • Matt Campbell

    Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building digital and automation (Terafab) tools for utility-scale solar; a solar-industry veteran who joined SunPower in ...

  • Matt Grimm

    Co-founder and COO of Anduril Industries; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  • Matt Li

    Co-founder and CEO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); led company from founding in 2019 to 2023 IPO; background in hospitality robotics and automation.

  • Matt McCue

    Co-founder and President of DZYNE Technologies, with a decade developing leading UAS platforms.

  • Matt Mellor

    Founder of Createc (founded 2010), the Cumbria-based gamma-ray-imaging, robotics, and AI firm for nuclear environments; served as CEO before moving to CTO in No...

  • Matt Rendall

    Co-founder and CEO of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. University of Waterloo mechatronics engineering graduate. Led the company from its 2009 founding throu...

  • Matt Steckman

    President and Chief Business Officer of Anduril (formerly Chief Revenue Officer); previously in business operations at Palantir and Chief Revenue Officer at Zip...

  • Matthew Anderson

    CEO of A&K Robotics, leading development of Cruz autonomous mobility pods for airports and public spaces.

  • Matthew Bush

    Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its CEO since February 2026 (previously COO); the company makes turnkey welding and material-handling cobot systems.

  • Matthew Kang

    Co-founder of Revolve Surgical.

  • Matthew Rendall

    Co-founder and CEO of Clearpath Robotics (founded 2009, acquired by Rockwell Automation 2023). Led Clearpath from a University of Waterloo spin-out to the leadi...

  • Matthias Biegl

    Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010. Developed rugged ground robots for industrial inspection and firefighting.

  • Matthieu Masselin

    CEO and co-founder of Wandercraft (2012-present); has led the company through its Atalante rehabilitation exoskeleton, personal exoskeleton Eve, and humanoid ro...

  • Mauritz Andersson

    Co-founder of AirForestry and a physicist; brought a research background in quantum optics and optical-systems engineering to the company's forestry drones.

  • Max Justicz

    Co-founder of Charge Robotics (founded 2021), which builds robots that automate utility-scale solar construction; MIT alum.

  • Max Warburton

    Chief Financial Officer of Wayve; previously an adviser to the Mercedes-Benz board and a Managing Partner / auto analyst at Bernstein.

  • Maximilian Boosfeld

    Co-founder and CEO of Wingtra (founded 2014 as an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off), maker of the WingtraOne VTOL mapping drone.

  • Maximilian Fisser

    Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous yard-truck company.

  • Maximilian Oligschläger

    Maximilian Oligschläger is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of ERC System, driving commercial strategy and partnerships for the company's eVTOL platforms...

  • Mehul Nariyawala

    Co-founder and President of Matic Robots in San Francisco. Developing privacy-first AI-powered robot vacuums with on-device mapping.

  • Meisong Lai

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of ZTO Express, China's largest express delivery company by parcel volume. Founded the company in 2002 in Shanghai and led it to dual ...

  • Mel Torrie

    CEO and co-founder of Autonomous Solutions Inc. Founded the company in 2000 in Mendon, Utah.

  • Melonee Wise

    Co-founder and CEO of Fetch Robotics (founded 2014), San Jose-based AMR company acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2021 for $290M. Previously a software engineer...

  • Melonee Wise

    Roboticist; Robot Development Manager at Willow Garage, then founder and CEO of Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra), later CTO and Chief Product Officer at Agili...

  • Metin Bayram

    President and CEO of TrellisWare Technologies, leading the company to 200,000+ TSM-enabled radios deployed globally and multiple Top Workplace awards.

  • Michael Antonov

    Co-founder of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform, a UI middleware company acquired by Autodesk.

  • Michael Ferguson

    Co-founder and CTO of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; co-authored the Fetch & Freight robotics platform. Expertise in robot software robustness and ease-...

  • Michael Früh

    CEO of F&P Robotics AG since 2014, initially joining as CFO before becoming CEO. Led the Swiss economic and scientific mission to China.

  • Michael Fübi

    Chairman of the Board of TÜV Rheinland since January 2015, leading the international testing, inspection and certification organization.

  • Michael Halbherr

    Co-founder of German Bionic.

  • Michael Howe

    Co-founder and president/chief engineer of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Geoff Howe); developer of tracked robotic and extreme vehicles.

  • Michael Jones

    President and CEO of Positec Americas, leading US retail market growth and commercial space penetration under the Kress brand.

  • Michael Mussallem

    Michael Mussallem served as CEO of Edwards Lifesciences from its 2000 IPO spin-off from Baxter until May 2023, leading the company for 23 years and pioneering t...

  • Michael Norcia

    Co-founder and CEO of Pyka (founded 2017), maker of large autonomous electric aircraft for agricultural spraying (Pelican Spray) and cargo.

  • Michael Schneider

    Michael Schneider served as CEO of Siemens Logistics, leading the company's airport baggage handling and logistics automation business until its acquisition by ...

  • Michael Yang

    Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Shield AI.

  • Michael Zhao

    Co-founder and COO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); oversees operations and product deployment for hospitality robotics fleet.

  • Michele Guarnieri

    Co-founder and CEO of HiBot (spun out of the Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Lab), maker of snake and inspection robots; earned his PhD at Tokyo Tech und...

  • Mick Mountz

    Founder and CEO of Kiva Systems (acquired by Amazon in 2012, became Amazon Robotics); previously at Webvan, whose collapse inspired the Kiva mobile-robotic-fulf...

  • Miguel de la Iglesia Valls

    Co-founder and CTO of Ascento, the Swiss outdoor-security-robot company spun out of ETH Zurich.

  • Mike Connor

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of ThayerMahan. Retired Admiral, former U.S. submarine force commander.

  • Mike Coughlin

    Founder, president, and CEO of ScriptPro (founded 1994), which built the first robotic prescription-dispensing system for community and outpatient pharmacies.

  • Mike Futch

    President and CEO of Tompkins Robotics, leading the warehouse robotics sortation company and its partnership with Honeywell.

  • Mike Howe

    Co-founder of Howe & Howe Technologies, the Waterboro, Maine-based defense and emergency response robotics company, now a Textron Systems subsidiary.

  • Mike Mancini

    Veteran aerospace and deep-tech finance executive. Appointed CFO of Nuro in May 2026 ahead of robotaxi launch.

  • Mike Pivac

    CEO of FBR (Fastbrick Robotics), leading the Australian company developing the Hadrian X autonomous bricklaying robot.

  • Mike Wior

    Mike Wior is Co-Founder and CEO of Allen Control Systems. Previously co-founded Bbot, a software and robotics restaurant technology startup.

  • Mikhail Fedosovsky

    Founder of the Diakont group (founded 1990), which develops robotic in-line pipe-inspection crawlers and nuclear/energy motion-control and inspection systems.

  • Mikk Murumäe

    Co-Founder and CTO of Threod Systems. Oversees product development including the Eos UAV series and Cata launcher systems. Led the development of the first VTOL...

  • Milan Kovac

    VP Engineering Tesla (Optimus humanoid robot program) 2022-2025; led Tesla Optimus hardware and controls development; departed June 2025 to spend more time with...

  • Milan Nedeljković

    CEO of BMW Group.

  • Miles Lowell Edwards

    Miles Lowell Edwards was an electrical engineer who founded Edwards Lifesciences in 1958 and invented the first medically proven and adopted artificial heart va...

  • Mina Kamel

    Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the ETH Zurich spin-off making omnidirectional aerial NDT inspection drones; came from ETH's Autonomous Systems Lab.

  • Mircea Tudor

    Founder of MB Telecom (1994) and Tudor Scan Tech SA (2014), inventor of the ROBOSCAN inspection system and three-time Grand Prix winner at the Geneva Internatio...

  • Mirza Akbar Shah

    Co-founder and CTO of Simbe Robotics; previously an engineer at Willow Garage, part of the robotics talent diaspora that lab seeded.

  • Mohammed Hikmet

    Founder and chairman of HMI Technologies (founded 1999) and its autonomous-shuttle subsidiary Ohmio Automotion; emigrated to New Zealand from Iraq in 1996.

  • Mohammed Kabir

    Co-founder and CTO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), the autonomous warehouse inventory-drone company.

  • Mohi Khansari

    Head of Robot Learning at 1X Technologies; previously a founding member / lead of imitation learning at Everyday Robots (Google X) and a technical lead at Cruis...

  • Mohit Kumar

    Co-founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, the Indian metabolic-health and smart-ring company.

  • Moshe Shoham

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and head of the Robotics Lab. Co-founded Mazor Robotics and served as CTO. A wo...

  • Mostafa ElSayed

    Co-founder and CEO of Automata (Automata Technologies), the London lab-automation company behind the LINQ benchtop platform.

  • Mustally Hussain

    Chief Financial Officer of 1X Technologies; previously Global Treasurer at Lucid Group and senior finance roles at Hyundai Capital and National Grid.

  • Nadav Bocher

    Co-founder and CEO of Greeneye Technology (founded 2017), the AI precision targeted-spraying company; began working on pesticide overuse while serving as a comb...

  • Nadav Shuruk

    Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall/painting robotics company.

  • Natalie Wiegand

    VP of Global Expansion and Integration at Saronic; previously on the early executive-search team at Tesla and Chief of Staff / VP People at Capital Factory.

  • Nate Mitchell

    Co-founder of Oculus VR, focused on product development for the Rift and Quest headset line.

  • Nathan Michael

    Chief Technology Officer of Shield AI (since 2018); previously a robotics faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Neel Mehta

    Co-founder and Director of Asteria Aerospace, Purdue University alumni. Leading India's full-stack drone technology company.

  • Nevada Sanchez

    Nevada Sanchez co-founded Butterfly Network and developed the Ultrasound-on-Chip technology behind the Butterfly iQ. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015.

  • Ngo Quoc Hung

    CEO of VinRobotics JSC, leading Vingroup humanoid robotics subsidiary in Hanoi, Vietnam.

  • Nguyen Tuan Anh

    Co-founder and CEO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Former Grab Vietnam Country Head.

  • Nic Radford

    Founder and CEO of Persona AI. Building purpose-built industrial humanoid robots for shipyards and heavy industry.

  • Nicholas Paine

    Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; PhD in robotics from the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab.

  • Nicholas Wagner

    Co-founder of Opentrons, the open-source laboratory liquid-handling robotics company.

  • Nick Damiano

    Nick Damiano is CEO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x medtech founder, he previously founded Zenflow (YC W15, raised $100M+, Class 3 FDA approval) and ...

  • Nick Hegeman

    Co-founder and CEO of PaintJet (founded 2020 with Steve Wasilowski), maker of the Bravo robotic exterior-painting system.

  • Nick Stoner

    VP of Growth at Saronic; previously a senior director of the maritime business at Anduril and a US Navy special-operations officer.

  • Nicola Telford

    Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with her husband Mark), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm.

  • Nicolas Chee

    Founder and CEO of ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-based AMR company. Former Oracle VP who built ForwardX into a global leader in vision-based autonomous intralogi...

  • Nicolas Simon

    Co-founder and Chairman of the Board at Wandercraft (2012-present); graduated in robotics from Ecole Polytechnique. Personal motivation: family members use whee...

  • Niels Jul Jacobsen

    Co-founder and CTO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013). Led the technical development of MiR's autonomous mobile robot platform. Previously at Unive...

  • Nikhil Ramaswamy

    Co-founder of CynLr. Working on visual object intelligence for robotics for over a decade.

  • Nikita Cheniuntai

    Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company founded in 2014.

  • Nikita Rudin

    Co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics, a Zurich-based robotics intelligence startup building the autonomy stack for humanoid robots. Raised 0M Series A led by ...

  • Niklas Koehler

    Co-founder of Helsing, the European defense-AI company.

  • Nikolas Bullwinkel

    Founder and CEO of Circus SE. Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Flink, a grocery delivery startup, before founding Circus Group.

  • Nikunj Parashar

    Founder of Sagar Defence Engineering, developing unmanned surface vessels for the Indian Navy and commercial applications. Partnered with Liquid Robotics for US...

  • Nils Jaeger

    Nils Jaeger serves as President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, leading the company's autonomous transport initiatives including partnerships with Waabi and Auro...

  • Nils Thorjussen

    Co-founder and CEO of Verge Aero, maker of drone-light-show systems; a veteran entertainment-technology entrepreneur (Flying Pig Systems, Element Labs).

  • Nir Yanushevsky

    Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall-finishing robotics company.

  • Noah Knauf

    Board member of Saildrone; General Partner at BOND.

  • Norma Steller

    Co-CTO of German Bionic. Leads the AI-driven operating system development for the Exia exoskeleton platform.

  • Ofer Ballin

    Former Colonel in the IDF with extensive leadership experience in operational adoption of breakthrough technologies. Previously held a business development role...

  • Ofir Schlam

    Co-founder and CEO of Taranis, the Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform using aerial imagery and AI.

  • Oh Jun-ho

    Professor at KAIST HUBO Lab and co-founder of Rainbow Robotics. Developed the HUBO humanoid robot platform.

  • Okeoma Morant

    COO Zipline; oversees global operations, regulatory affairs, and country expansion for drone delivery network.

  • Oleg Vornik

    CEO and first employee of DroneShield, leading the company's growth as a global leader in counter-drone technology with FY2025 revenue of AUD 16.5M.

  • Oliver Blume

    CEO of Volkswagen Group since September 2022. Oversees VW's autonomous driving programs including CARIAD (software unit), Volkswagen ARGO AI investment, and the...

  • Olivia Norton

    Co-founder, CTO and CPO of Sanctuary AI; previously led the Vancouver AGI group at Kindred AI.

  • Olle Gelin

    Co-founder and forestry-technology expert at AirForestry, the Swedish electric-forestry-drone startup.

  • Onn Haran

    Co-founder and CTO of Autotalks, pioneering V2X chipset technology for vehicle-to-everything communication.

  • Ossur Kristinsson

    Founder of Ossur (1971), the Icelandic prosthetics and orthotics company; an amputee and prosthetist who developed the Iceross silicone prosthetic-socket liner....

  • Össur Kristinsson

    Icelandic amputee and prosthetist who founded Össur in 1971 after developing the world's first silicone prosthetic liner (Iceross).

  • Pal Johan From

    Founder and CEO of Saga Robotics (founded 2016), maker of the Thorvald autonomous farm robot; a robotics professor specializing in agricultural automation.

  • Pal Liljeback

    Co-founder and CTO of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off); earned his doctorate in snake robotics under Kristin Pettersen, the basis for Eelume's all-terrain underwater...

  • Pal Naess

    Chief Business Officer of 1X Technologies.

  • Palaniswamy Rajan

    Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of SoftWear Automation, the SEWBOT garment-robotics company founded in 2012 by Georgia Tech scientists.

  • Palmer Luckey

    Founder of Anduril Industries (defense technology, founded 2017); previously founded virtual-reality company Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook).

  • Panu Routila

    Panu Routila serves as Chairperson of Patria Plc.

  • Paolo Denti

    Paolo Denti is CEO and co-founder of Oversonic Robotics. He previously served as CEO of Thun SpA (2008-2018) and held executive roles at Benetton Sportsystem an...

  • Parker Burke

    Appointed Group President of Fluke Corporation and Fluke Reliability in July 2025, leading the connected reliability vision.

  • Pat Martinson

    Co-founder and VP of Hardware at Clearpath Robotics (founded 2009, Kitchener, Ontario). University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering graduate. One of four co...

  • Pathak

    Founder of Foundation Future Industries, building the Phantom MK1 humanoid robot for factory and military use. Secured 4M in Pentagon contracts and plans to bui...

  • Patricia Apostol

    Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Brings technical credibility from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ETH Zurich. Met co-founder Jean Crosetti through Entrepreneu...

  • Patrick DePriest

    Chief Financial Officer of Saronic; previously CFO of Merlin Labs.

  • Patrick Thevoz

    CEO and co-founder of Flyability, the leading indoor inspection drone company. Led the company to become the standard for remotely inspecting confined spaces in...

  • Patrick Zimmermann

    Co-founder and CFO of fruitcore robotics GmbH, responsible for finance and business development.

  • Paul Berberian

    CEO of Sphero, leading the educational robotics company after the littleBits acquisition to become an edtech leader in STEAM learning.

  • Paul Bonnett

    Paul Bonnett is CEO of Stout Industrial Technology, joining with 27+ years of global agribusiness experience to lead the agricultural robotics company.

  • Paul Fang

    Chairman and CEO of Midea Group, leading the companys expansion into robotics and AI, including the 8.7 billion dollar AI/robotics investment pledge.

  • Paul Gudonis

    CEO of Myomo, leading the medical device company developing powered orthosis for upper-limb paralysis. Expanded clinical operations to China.

  • Paul Lwin

    Co-founder and CEO of HavocAI. Leading development of autonomous maritime systems and AI-powered vessel solutions.

  • Paul Newman

    Co-founder of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica); professor of robotics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of autonomous-driving software.

  • Paul Sciarra

    Executive Chairman of Joby Aviation. Previously co-founder of Pinterest.

  • Paul Travers

    Founder and CEO of Vuzix, leading the optical technology and AR smart glasses company for 25+ years. Partnering with Quanta Computer for AI-powered smart glasse...

  • Paul W. Broome

    Founder of ENSCO, Inc. (engineering, science, and technology firm; founded 1969), whose ENSCO Rail division pioneered autonomous track-inspection systems.

  • Paulo Debenest

    Co-founder of HiBot (Tokyo Tech spin-off, 2004); a mechanical engineer who began at Embraer in Brazil before pursuing robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technol...

  • Per Selvaag

    VP of Design at 1X Technologies; previously Chief Designer at Peugeot and a lead designer at BMW.

  • Per Waldemarson

    CEO and President of Lifco AB, leading the Group's decentralized serial acquisition strategy across Dental, Demolition & Tools, and Systems Solutions segments.

  • Peter Anderson-Sprecher

    Co-founder of Fox Robotics, maker of the FoxBot autonomous forklift / trailer loader-unloader (acquired by Symbotic).

  • Peter Chen

    Co-founder and CEO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024 as part of Amazon's license-and-hire deal.

  • Peter Fankhauser

    Co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics (founded 2016), Swiss quadruped robot company spun out of ETH Zurich. ANYbotics makes the ANYmal autonomous inspection robot. Pr...

  • Peter Francis

    Co-founder and CEO of Revolve Surgical. Background in mechatronics engineering and surgical robotics.

  • Peter Ho

    Co-founder and CEO of HOPE Technik. Founded the Singapore engineering firm in 2006 with three NUS schoolmates.

  • Peter Mohnen

    CEO of KUKA AG 2018-2025. Joined KUKA in 2012 as CFO and became CEO in 2018. Led KUKA's transition under Midea Group ownership (acquired 2016) and restructuring...

  • Peter Mohnen

    Former CEO of KUKA AG. Led the company through the challenging 2024 fiscal year and the launch of iiQKA.OS2.

  • Peter Vaughn Schmidt

    CEO of Torc Robotics, a Daimler Truck subsidiary developing Level 4 autonomous freight trucks. Achieved driver-out capability on closed course in Texas, targeti...

  • Peter Wurman

    Computer scientist; co-founder and CTO of Kiva Systems; later director of research at Sony AI, leading the Gran Turismo Sophy project.

  • Petteri Lahtela

    Co-founder and former CEO of Oura; Finnish health-technology entrepreneur.

  • Pham Quang Cuong

    Co-founder and CEO of Eureka Robotics. Associate Professor of Robotics at NTU (on leave), former JSPS Fellow at UTokyo, PhD in Neuroscience and Robotics.

  • Philip Norman

    Co-founder and CTO of Ross Robotics (founded 2015); conceived the Robosynthesis modular, reconfigurable ground-robot platform.

  • Phuong Nguyen

    Former CTO of 1X / Halodi Robotics (left 2023); later founded Physical Robotics. PhD in robotics from the University of Ulsan.

  • Phyl Schnyder

    Co-founder of Apellix, the aerial-robotics company making spray-painting and coating drones; joined as co-founder in 2015.

  • Pieter Abbeel

    Co-founder of Covariant and professor at UC Berkeley; joined Amazon in August 2024 when Amazon licensed Covariant's models and hired several of its founders. Ph...

  • Pietro Gorlier

    CEO of Comau, presenting analysis of the market and benefits of automation. Leading the Italian industrial automation company after its spin-off from Stellantis...

  • Pol Duthoit

    Co-founder of SolarCleano (founded 2017), maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning systems.

  • Pramod Ghadge

    Co-founder and CEO of Unbox Robotics in Pune, India. Started the company at age 29, building warehouse robotics sortation systems.

  • Prateek Jain

    Co-founder and COO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian robotics and warehouse-automation company.

  • Preston Feight

    Preston Feight is CEO of PACCAR Inc, the Bellevue, Washington-based manufacturer of Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF trucks. He leads PACCAR's strategic partnerships...

  • Pulkit Gaur

    Founder and CTO of Gridbots Technologies. TED Fellow. Leading India-based robotics and machine vision company.

  • Qi Xiangdong

    Co-founder and President of 360 Security Technology, overseeing the company's security product development.

  • Qian Dongqi

    Founder of Ecovacs Robotics in 1998, building the Chinese home robotics company into a publicly listed enterprise with over 60% of the Chinese robot vacuum mark...

  • Quan Vuong

    Co-founder and researcher at Physical Intelligence (cross-embodiment learning); previously a software engineer at Google DeepMind. PhD from UC San Diego (report...

  • Raffaello D'Andrea

    Co-founder and CEO of Verity, a Swiss company developing autonomous inventory drones. Started the technology in 2014 as a spin-out from ETH Zurich. Raised 6M to...

  • Rajat Bhageria

    Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics; Wharton alumnus; building AI-powered food-assembly robots for industrial kitchens. Led $43M Series A (2023) and $20.6M round (...

  • Randall Lipps

    Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of Omnicell, the pharmacy-automation and medication-management company he founded in 1992.

  • Randolph Voorhies

    Co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics; a USC robotics PhD who co-founded the goods-to-person warehouse-robotics company.

  • Raquel Urtasun

    Founder and CEO of Waabi (founded 2021); previously chief scientist at Uber ATG and a professor at the University of Toronto. PhD from EPFL.

  • Rasmus Errboe

    Appointed CEO of Ørsted in February 2025, previously served as Deputy-CEO and Chief Commercial Officer.

  • Rebecca Hu

    Co-founder and CEO of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously at Bain & Company.

  • Reinhold Gross

    CEO of KUKA's Robotics division. Leads the robotics product strategy including the iiQKA.OS2 operating system rollout.

  • Remi El-Ouazzane

    Appointed CEO of Movidius in May 2013; led the company through its Google partnership and Intel acquisition before later joining Intel's AI Products Group.

  • Ren Bin

    Founder, CEO and General Manager of JOUAV, one of the world's top 5 UAV manufacturers, developing VTOL fixed-wing drones since 2010.

  • Renjie Guo

    CEO of Zeroth Robotics, leading the Chinese humanoid robotics company's mission to build robots that truly interact with the real world. Debuted the Jupiter, M1...

  • Rich Hull

    CEO of Miso Robotics, maker of Flippy kitchen automation robots. Leading expansion into fast food automation with AI-powered frying and grilling robots.

  • Rich Walker

    Director of Shadow Robot Company, leading the team developing dexterous robotic hands and teleoperation systems for 14 years.

  • Richard Greenhill

    Founder of Shadow Robot Company, pioneering dexterous robotic hand technology in London since 1987.

  • Richard Jenkins

    Founder and CEO of Saildrone; inventor of the wing-sail and holder of the world land-speed sailing record.

  • Richard Wang

    Founder and CEO of Aiper (founded 2016, Shenzhen/Atlanta), maker of cordless robotic pool cleaners.

  • Ritesh Ragavender

    Co-founder and CEO of Reflex Robotics, building affordable (0k) wheeled humanoid robots for logistics and manufacturing. Piloting with GXO Logistics.

  • Ritukar Vijay

    Co-founder and CEO of Ottonomy.io (founded 2020), Cincinnati-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company making the Ottobot. Deployed in airports including...

  • RJ Scaringe

    Founder of Mind Robotics.

  • Rob Cochran

    Former CTRL-labs and Goldman Sachs executive; co-founded Fauna Robotics in 2024 to build approachable humanoid robots for human spaces.

  • Rob Flenniken

    VP of Vehicle Software at Wayve; previously ~3 years at Cruise scaling its robotaxi fleet software.

  • Rob Goldiez

    Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its longtime CEO; led the cobot-systems company for over a decade before retiring in 2026.

  • Rob Lehman

    Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Saronic; a 21-year US Marine Corps officer (Lt. Col.); previously at Northrop Grumman and ManTech.

  • Robert Anderson

    Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  • Robert Dahlstrom

    Founder and CEO of Apellix; began building power-wash and spray-painting drone prototypes in 2013-14, founded the company in 2015, and patented its software-con...

  • Robert Dane

    Founder and CEO of Ocius Technology, a lifelong mariner who designed the Bluebottle USV to harness solar, wind, and wave power for endless endurance maritime mi...

  • Robert Fink

    Chief Technology Officer of Helsing; previously a founding engineer at Palantir and an architect of its Foundry data platform.

  • Robert Franz

    CEO of Allied Vision Technologies GmbH, part of TKH Group NV. Leading the unification of TKH's 2D machine vision brands under the Allied Vision name.

  • Robert Kleist

    European Managing Director of Saildrone; previously in the Royal Danish Navy and VP Sales at Weibel Scientific.

  • Robert Little

    Co-founder and CEO of ATI Industrial Automation, the world-leading developer of robotic end-effectors and tool changers. Founded the company in 1989.

  • Robert Schena

    Co-founded Rajant Corporation in 2001, pioneering Kinetic Mesh networking and BreadCrumb wireless nodes for defense, mining, and autonomous vehicle applications...

  • Robert Sullivan

    President and CEO of AutoGuide Mobile Robots, leading the AMR developer before its acquisition by Teradyne.

  • Rocky Duan

    Co-founder and CTO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024.

  • Rodney Brooks

    Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics); Panasonic Professor Emeritus at MIT; co-founder of iRobot. Pioneer of behavior-bas...

  • Roger Hine

    Founder of Liquid Robotics, created the Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle for long-duration ocean data collection.

  • Roger Wells

    CEO of AEVEX Aerospace with over 25 years of leadership experience in the defense and aerospace sectors. Succeeded founder Brian Raduenz as CEO.

  • Roy Lim

    Founder and CEO of Robocore Technology (temi parent company), a Hong Kong-based robotics company he founded in 2018. Led the acquisition of the original Israeli...

  • Runal Dahiwade

    Founder and CEO of Peppermint Robotics in Pune, India, developing autonomous floor cleaning robots.

  • Rustom Jehangir

    Founder and CEO of Blue Robotics (founded 2014), the marine-robotics company behind the BlueROV2 and open-source underwater thrusters, sensors, and software.

  • Ryan Gariepy

    Co-founder and CTO of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. University of Waterloo mechatronics engineering graduate. Oversees autonomous vehicle technology and s...

  • Ryan Sinnet

    Co-founder and CTO of Miso Robotics; a Caltech engineer who co-founded the company in 2016.

  • Ryan Tseng

    Co-founder and CEO of Shield AI; previously founded wireless-power company WiPower (acquired by Qualcomm).

  • Salah Sukkarieh

    Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at The University of Sydney and CEO of Agerris. Spun out Agerris from research at the Australian Centre for Field ...

  • Salar al Khafaji

    Founder and CEO of Monumental, the Dutch construction-robotics company building autonomous bricklaying robots; founded the company in 2021.

  • Sam Altman

    CEO of OpenAI Robotics.

  • Sam Macdonald

    Co-founder and president of Deep Trekker (founded 2010 with Jeff Lotz), the Canadian maker of portable underwater ROVs.

  • Saman Farid

    CEO and founder of Formic, providing robotics-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturers. Has raised over 0M in funding.

  • Samantha Payne

    Co-founder and COO of Open Bionics (founded 2014), the maker of 3D-printed bionic Hero Arms. Appointed MBE.

  • Samer Al Moubayed

    CEO and co-founder of Furhat Robotics (founded 2014, Stockholm). PhD in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Masters in Global Management fr...

  • Sami Atiya

    President of ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation (RDA) business area since 2017. ABB RDA includes ABB Robotics, ASTI Mobile Robotics, and B&R industrial automa...

  • Sami Haddadin

    Co-founder of Franka Emika (2016, Munich), now Franka Robotics. Created the Franka Panda (later FR3) torque-controlled 7-DOF robot arm, pioneering affordable co...

  • Samil Ozden

    CEO and co-founder of Milvus Robotics, developing autonomous mobile robots for warehouse and industrial material handling.

  • Sammy Khalifa

    Co-founder and CTO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met CEO Adam Sachs as MIT undergraduates. Previously at Apple. Led hardware and software development of th...

  • Samuel Au

    Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Founder & CEO of Cornerstone Robotics. Director of the Multiscale Medical Robotics Center (MRC) at InnoHK. ...

  • Sangeet Kumar

    Co-founder and CEO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian warehouse-automation company making AMRs, ASRS, and material-handling robots; backed by Reliance.

  • Sankaet Pathak

    CEO of Foundation.

  • Sankalp Arora

    Co-founder and CEO of Gather AI (founded 2018 out of Carnegie Mellon), maker of AI-powered autonomous warehouse inventory drones; previously worked on DARPA aut...

  • Sarah Gates

    VP of Global Affairs and Assurance at Wayve.

  • Saurabh Chandra

    CEO and founder of ATI Motors, developing autonomous mobile robots for factories and warehouses. Also announced the Sherpa Mecha manufacturing humanoid.

  • Scott Glenn

    Co-founded Dexcom in 1999.

  • Scott LaValley

    Founder of Cartwheel Robotics.

  • Scott Peters

    Co-founder and CEO of Construction Robotics. Expert in robotics and construction technology.

  • Sean Hsu

    CEO and founder of Botrista, former Tesla engineer. Leading the company's automated beverage platform with 36M+ in funding.

  • Sean Mitchell

    Co-founder of Movidius in 2005, served as CEO before transitioning to chairman; later co-founded Provizio, an automotive safety sensor company.

  • Sean Rad

    Co-founder of Happy Health. Founder of Tinder. Leading Happy Health's smart ring wellness wearable with 0M Series A from ARCH Venture Partners.

  • Sebastiaan Visser

    Co-founder and CTO of Monumental, the autonomous-bricklaying robotics company.

  • Seiuemon Inaba

    Founder and long-time President & CEO of FANUC Corporation. Joined Fujitsu (then Fuji Tsushinki) in 1946 and developed Japan's first numerical control (NC) syst...

  • Seok Sang-ok

    CEO of Naver Labs, leading Naver's robotics and AI research division. Oversees the deployment of service robots across Naver's headquarters.

  • Sergey Levine

    Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and associate professor at UC Berkeley; previously a research scientist at Google Brain. PhD from Stanford.

  • Shai Terem

    President and CEO of Markforged, led the company through its NYSE SPAC listing in July 2021. Previously served as President of the Americas at digital printing ...

  • Shan Zhongde

    Administrator of the China National Space Administration, overseeing China's civil space program including lunar and Mars exploration missions.

  • Shane Farritor

    Co-founder and CTO of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized surgical rob...

  • Sharyl Givens

    Chief People Officer of Shield AI.

  • Shekhar Mital

    Rear Admiral (Retd), former Chairman and Managing Director of Goa Shipyard Limited and former Director General of the Submarine Design Group. Oversees shipbuild...

  • Sheng Fu

    CEO of Cheetah Mobile and OrionStar, leading the deployment of 16,800+ AI service robots across retail, hospitality, and education in China.

  • Shigeo Hirose

    Tokyo Institute of Technology robotics professor and pioneer of snake and legged robots; co-founder and director of HiBot (spun out of Tokyo Tech in 2004).

  • Shinnosuke Hayashi

    Shinnosuke Hayashi is President and CEO of DENSO Corporation, appointed in April 2023. He also serves as Chief Operating Officer and representative member of th...

  • Shuo Yang

    Co-Founder and CTO of Mondo Robotics. Former Tesla Optimus Staff Control Engineer. CMU Robotics PhD. Building Beni, an all-terrain camera robot inspired by a pr...

  • Siler Wang

    Founder and CEO of Beatbot, building AI-powered pool cleaning robots. Led the company to 85% market share in premium pool cleaning and hundreds of millions in r...

  • Silvius Rus

    Senior VP of Engineering at Wayve; previously an Engineering Director at Google (datacenter compute + TPU infra). PhD from Texas A&M.

  • Simon Fried

    Co-founded Nano Dimension and helped grow it from a bootstrapped startup into a NASDAQ-listed tech unicorn.

  • Simon Haddadin

    Co-founder and former CEO of Franka Emika (2016-2023), now Franka Robotics. Brother of Sami Haddadin. Led the company's commercialization of the Franka Panda ar...

  • Simone Fabris

    VP of Product and Delivery at Wayve.

  • Sneh Vaswani

    Co-founder and CEO of Miko, an Indian robotics company building AI-powered companion robots for children. Led the company through Series D funding.

  • Soo Cho

    Chief People Officer of Saronic; previously head of people / employment counsel at Palantir and COO at Merlin Labs.

  • Soroush Karimzadeh

    Co-founder and CEO of Novarc Technologies, the Vancouver welding-robotics company behind the Spool Welding Robot.

  • Soroush Salehian

    CEO and co-founder of Aeva Technologies, developing 4D LiDAR-on-a-chip technology for autonomous driving and robotics.

  • Spencer Allen

    Chief technology officer of Aethon and a named inventor of the TUG autonomous-delivery robot system.

  • Stefan Klebert

    CEO and Chairman of GEA Group AG since 2019, responsible for overall strategic direction of the food and beverage processing technology company.

  • Stella Li

    Executive Vice President at BYD leading the company's humanoid robotics initiative (Yao-Shun-Yu project), with oversight of the open robot platform strategy.

  • Stephane Bedard

    Founder, President and CEO of B-TEMIA, developing the Keeogo powered walking assist exoskeleton based on the Dermoskeleton technology platform.

  • Stephen Klein

    Co-founder and CEO of Hyphen Technologies, developing AI-powered automated makeline systems for restaurant kitchens.

  • Steve Chambers

    Former President of Nuance Communications who served as CEO of Jibo, Inc. from January 2015, replacing founder Cynthia Breazeal who moved to Chief Scientist.

  • Steve Cousins

    Co-founder and CEO of Savioke (founded 2013), maker of the Relay robot butler for hotels and hospitals. Previously CEO of Willow Garage, the robotics incubator ...

  • Steve Cousins

    CEO of Willow Garage (2008-2014); founder and CEO of Savioke, now Relay Robotics.

  • Steve Gorevan

    Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983. Pioneered planetary drilling and sampling systems for NASA missions.

  • Steve ODea

    Chief Operating Officer of Apptronik, leading engineering, manufacturing, field service and IT.

  • Steve Reinharz

    Founder and CEO of RAD (Robotic Assistance Devices), developing autonomous security patrol robots.

  • Steve Simoni

    Steve Simoni is Co-Founder and President of Allen Control Systems. A Navy veteran who previously co-founded Bbot with Mike Wior.

  • Steve Tanner

    Co-founder and CTO of Ecorobotix; grew up on a farm weeding sugar beets by hand and holds a PhD from EPFL.

  • Steve Wasilowski

    Co-founder of PaintJet (founded 2020), the robotic exterior-painting company.

  • Steven Yang

    Founder and CEO of Anker Innovations, parent company of eufy. Former Google engineer who built Anker into a global consumer electronics brand listed on the Shen...

  • Stuart Maggs

    Co-founder and CEO of Scaled Robotics (later rebranded Naska.AI), which built AI/3D-scanning robots for construction progress monitoring and quality control.

  • Stuart Simpson

    President and CEO of THINK Surgical. Leading commercialization of TMINI Miniature Robotic System for orthopedic surgery. 00M investment from KDB Investment.

  • Sudhir Srivastava

    Globally acclaimed robotic cardiac surgeon and founder of SS Innovations. Pioneered robotic telesurgery and aims to make robotic surgery affordable and accessib...

  • Suhas Banshiwala

    Co-founder and Director of Aereo.

  • Suryansh Chandra

    Co-founder of Automata, the London lab-automation robotics company.

  • Susan Graham

    Biomedical engineer (University of Oxford); co-founder and CEO of Dendra Systems, the drone-based ecosystem-restoration company.

  • Suzanne Gildert

    Co-founder and former Chief Science Officer / CTO of Sanctuary AI; departed in 2024 to found Nirvanic. Previously at D-Wave Systems.

  • Tae-yeon Terry Moon

    Co-founder and CEO of CarbonSix. Previously co-founded SUALAB, a South Korean industrial AI vision company acquired by Cognex in 2019 for approximately 60M, whe...

  • Takanori Shibata

    Inventor of the PARO therapeutic seal robot, which he began developing at Japan's AIST in 1993; chief senior research scientist at AIST.

  • Tan Limin

    Founder and chairman of Westwell (founded 2016, Shanghai), the AI logistics company behind the WellOcean smart-port platform and Qomolo autonomous new-energy lo...

  • Tan Min

    Chief Brand Officer of UBTECH Robotics (not a board director).

  • Tan Ruisong

    Tan Ruisong serves as Chairman and CEO of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), overseeing the state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate.

  • Tang Jinju

    CTO of Zeroth with extensive experience in robotics engineering.

  • Tang Mu

    Former Xiaomi VP of Ecosystem Chain and ex-Tencent CDC General Manager with 25 years of product-making experience. Founded Yingzhi XBOT in 2022 to build caterin...

  • Tang Sihua

    Founder and CEO of Leju Robotics (乐聚机器人, founded 2016), Shenzhen-based bipedal and humanoid robot company making the KUAVO and Robbie robots. Previously a gradu...

  • Tao Zhi

    Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, leading the Beijing-based hotel service robot company backed by Tencent, Alibaba, and Lenovo.

  • Ted Stinson

    CEO of Covariant (promoted from COO after Amazon licensed Covariant's models and hired its other founders in 2024); co-leads the standalone company with co-foun...

  • Terry Crimmins

    President of BAE Systems Electronic Systems, leading the division that produces avionics, electronic warfare, and sensor systems for military platforms.

  • Thanuja Ambegoda

    Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  • Theo Schafer

    Theo Schafer is CTO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He completed his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, with a thesis at MIT. He ...

  • Therese Hoffman

    CFO of Lifco AB, responsible for the Group's financial management and reporting.

  • Thierry Pilenko

    Thierry Pilenko serves as Executive Chairman of TechnipFMC, having previously been CEO of Technip SA prior to the merger.

  • Thomas Embla Bonnerud

    CEO of Zivid, succeeding co-founder Henrik Schumann-Olsen. Leading the Norwegian 3D machine vision camera company.

  • Thomas Götschmann

    CEO of Tinamu Labs. Serial entrepreneur and experienced company builder.

  • Thomas James Smith

    Thomas James Smith founded Smith & Nephew in 1856 in Kingston upon Hull as a dispensing chemist specializing in cod liver oil and later surgical dressings.

  • Thomas Visti

    Co-founder and CEO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013), Danish AMR manufacturer based in Odense. MiR pioneered autonomous mobile robots for internal...

  • Thuc Vu

    CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. Previously founded Katango (acquired by Google) and Tappy (acquired by Weeby.co).

  • Tianhao Zhang

    Co-founder of Covariant who remained to lead the company after Amazon hired its other founders in 2024.

  • Tim Brackbill

    Co-founder of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017), the precision fruit-harvesting robotics company acquired by Oishii.

  • Tim Schmiedl

    Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH.

  • Tim Steiner

    Co-founder and CEO of Ocado Group (founded 2000), UK online grocery and robotic warehouse automation company. Led Ocado from startup to a FTSE 100 company; pion...

  • Tobias Rietzler

    Co-founder and CEO of robominds. Electrical engineer passionate about robotics innovations.

  • Tom Alexander

    Chief Government Relations Officer of Saildrone; previously at the White House and the Department of Defense (acting Assistant Secretary for Special Operations)...

  • Tom Duncan

    Head of Positec's North American division based in Charlotte, NC. Former executive at Vermont American Tool Company (a joint venture between Emerson Electric an...

  • Tom Hale

    CEO of Oura (smart ring); previously CEO of SurveyMonkey and MeUndies. Not a company founder.

  • Tom Loefler

    Co-founder and CEO of Hullbot, the Australian autonomous underwater hull-cleaning robotics company.

  • Tom McCarthy

    Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), a Pasadena space-robotics company specializing in robotic arms, motor controllers, and mechanisms.

  • Tom Oxley

    Dr. Thomas Oxley is an Australian-born physician, neuroscientist, and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Synchron, a brain-computer interface...

  • Tom Plümmer

    Tom Plümmer is Co-founder and CEO of Wingcopter, a German drone delivery company.

  • Tom Stevens

    Tom Stevens founded Tombot in 2017 after his mother's progressive dementia necessitated rehoming her beloved pet dog. He previously built a legal automation sta...

  • Tom Yeshurun

    Co-founder and CEO of CIV Robotics, maker of autonomous land-surveying/layout robots (CivDot) for construction and solar sites; came from a road-construction ba...

  • Tomer Tzach

    CEO of CropX Technologies, leading the Israeli agtech company's mission to be the global leader in extracting soil insights for precision irrigation.

  • Tomohiro Uchida

    President and CEO of GMO AI & Robotics Corporation (GMO AIR), leading the company's humanoid robot social implementation strategy as a subsidiary of GMO Interne...

  • Tony Norman

    Co-Founder, President and CEO of Innovation First International (VEX Robotics). Inventor with more than 60 patents worldwide in educational and competitive robo...

  • Tony Zhao

    Co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics. Stanford PhD. Building Memo, an autonomous home robot that learns through ACT-1 foundation model. Raised 00M total at .15...

  • Toon Overbeeke

    Co-founder and CEO of Vitestro (founded 2017), the Dutch company developing an autonomous robotic blood-drawing (phlebotomy) device.

  • Torsten Reil

    Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing; previously founded animation-technology company NaturalMotion.

  • Toshiaki Ujiie

    President and CEO of Tadano Ltd., leading the world's largest Japan-based crane manufacturer.

  • Trae Stephens

    Co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries and a partner at venture firm Founders Fund; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  • Troy Demmer

    Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (COO); co-founded the wall-climbing infrastructure-inspection robotics company with Jake Loosararian in 2016.

  • Troy Mestler

    CEO of Skyfront, leading the long-endurance hybrid drone company that set a world record with a 13-hour, 4-minute flight.

  • Tully Foote

    Co-created TurtleBot at Willow Garage in 2010. ROS developer and robotics researcher.

  • Tuomas Lukka

    Co-founder of ZenRobotics and software architect behind the ZenRobotics Recycler platform.

  • Tye Brady

    Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics since 2015; formerly 15 years at Draper Laboratory; MIT MS in aeronautics and astronautics; holds 30+ patents; NASA Except...

  • Tyler Niday

    CEO of Bonsai Robotics, leading the AI-powered agriculture robotics company. Unveiled the Amiga Flex platform at FIRA 2025.

  • Tyler S. Ralston

    Tyler S. Ralston co-founded Butterfly Network.

  • Vatsal Singhal

    Co-founder of Ultrahuman; previously co-founded logistics company Runnr / Roadrunnr.

  • Vibhav Altekar

    Co-founder and CTO of Saronic; previously an early engineer at Anduril (Royal Australian Navy Ghost Shark) and at Twitter.

  • Victor Dewulf

    Co-founder and CEO of Recycleye. Former Goldman Sachs banker, left to pursue AI-powered waste sorting. Imperial College London alumnus.

  • Vijay Badrinarayanan

    VP of AI at Wayve; previously Director of Deep Learning & AI at Magic Leap; co-author of SegNet. PhD from INRIA; postdoc at Cambridge.

  • Vijay Kodali

    Co-founder of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company.

  • Vikram Kothari

    VP of Manufacturing & Hardware at 1X Technologies; previously led Dragon/Starship/Raptor supply chain at SpaceX and hardware supply chain at Microsoft.

  • Vinay Shet

    Co-founder and CEO of Teleo, which retrofits heavy equipment into supervised-autonomous machines; previously director of product for Lyft's self-driving program...

  • Vincenzo Russi

    CEO of e-Novia S.p.A., the Italian venture factory that created and incubated Yape. Led e-Novia through its Euronext Growth Milan listing in 2022.

  • Vipul Singh

    Co-founder and CEO of Aereo. Also co-founder and elected chairperson of the Drone Federation of India.

  • Vivian Chu

    Co-founder and CTO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017). Previously PhD researcher at Georgia Tech under Andrea Thomaz. Leads the robotics software and hardware ...

  • Volkmar Uhlig

    Co-founder and CTO of Ghost Autonomy. PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Previously co-founder and CTO of Adello, archite...

  • Waleed Haddad

    Co-founder and CTO of BurnBot, the wildfire-prevention robotics company behind the RX prescribed-burn machine.

  • Wang Donglin

    Professor and Chair of Westlake University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Founder of Westlake Robotics.

  • Wang Fei

    Founder and CEO of EngineAI (Shenzhen, founded 2023). Known for the SE01 humanoid robot demonstration that went viral for fluid bipedal locomotion. Building hum...

  • Wang Helong

    Founder and CEO of Galaxea AI (founded 2023), Beijing-based humanoid robot startup making the A1 general-purpose humanoid. Previously a robotics researcher and ...

  • Wang Hui

    17-year robotics industry veteran serving as COO of Zeroth.

  • Wang Jiali

    PhD in mechanical and electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. Former senior executive at Aerospace Science and Industry, Sany Group, and Sia...

  • Wang Jianchen

    Founder and CEO of Edge Medical Robotics. Leading industrialization of high-end surgical robotics in China.

  • Wang Xingxing

    Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics (founded 2016), the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker.

  • Wei Hongxing

    Founder and Chairman of AUBO (Beijing) Robotics Technology, founded 2015 under China's 863 high-technology research program. Former aerospace researcher. AUBO h...

  • Wendy Tan White

    CEO of Intrinsic (2021-2026), Alphabet's industrial robotics software company; former partner at BGF Ventures and Entrepreneur First; led Intrinsic's spinout fr...

  • Will Ahmed

    Founder and CEO of WHOOP; conceived the company as a Harvard undergraduate.

  • Will Canine

    Co-founder and CEO of Opentrons; started the open-source lab-automation/liquid-handling robotics company out of a community hackerspace with co-founders he met ...

  • Will Jackson

    CEO of Engineered Arts, a UK-based humanoid robotics company in Penryn, Cornwall. Creator of Ameca, the viral humanoid robot. Founded in 2004. Raised 0M for hum...

  • Will Jackson

    Founder and Managing Director of Engineered Arts (founded 2004), the UK robotics company behind the Ameca humanoid and Mesmer animatronic robots. Based in Penry...

  • Will Wells

    Founder and CEO of Hummingbird Technologies, conceived the drone-based crop analytics company during his MBA at INSEAD.

  • William (Junghoon) Ryu

    CEO of Doosan Robotics since August 2021. Previously held corporate strategy and sales roles at Doosan Group (joined 2007), including VP of Corporate Strategy. ...

  • William Bargar

    Dr. William Bargar is an orthopedic surgeon who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Howard Paul at the University of California, Davis in 1986, pioneer...

  • Wolfgang Schiller

    Appointed CEO of ZenRobotics (a Terex brand) after the acquisition; previously worked at German industrial robotics company Kuka.

  • Wong Kim Yin

    Group President and CEO of Sembcorp Industries since July 2020; also Chairman of SkillsFuture Singapore.

  • Woo Chang-pyo

    CEO of Hanwha Robotics since January 2026; Stanford MS in management science and engineering; former CEO of McKinsey Korea; joined Hanwha Group in 2024 leading ...

  • Xiao Jianxiong

    Founder and CEO of AutoX (founded 2016), a Chinese autonomous vehicle company. Also known as Professor X. Formerly computer vision professor at Princeton Univer...

  • Xingxing Wang

    Founded Unitree Robotics, leading it to global leadership in quadrupedal and humanoid robots with .7B valuation.

  • Xiong Youjun

    Co-founder, CTO and executive director of UBTECH Robotics; also GM of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Doctorate from Huazhong University of Scienc...

  • Yang Jianbo

    Founder and CEO of Astribot (Stardust Intelligence, founded 2023), Shenzhen humanoid robot startup. Made viral video of fast-moving humanoid in 2023. Previously...

  • Yang Jianbo

    Founder and CEO of KEYi Technology, a Beijing-based consumer robotics company. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017. Mechanical engineer leading 80+ employees building ...

  • Yangyang Yang

    Co-founder and CTO of Boonray Technology, PhD in Robotics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. First Prize in Shanghai robotics competitions. Leads Boonray's aut...

  • Yaniv Maor

    Founder and CEO of Tevel Aerobotics, maker of flying autonomous fruit-picking robots; previously a senior manager at Israel Aerospace Industries.

  • Yaro Tenzer

    Co-founder and CEO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). Originally served as CEO from founding through early 2023, then stepped back to Chairman ...

  • Yaron Schwarcz

    Israeli entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics, maker of the Ozmo high-rise window-cleaning robot.

  • Yasuhiko Hashimoto

    President and CEO of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the parent company of Kawasaki Robotics.

  • Yasuhiko Hashimoto

    President and CEO of Kawasaki Heavy Industries since 2021. Kawasaki manufactures SCARA and articulated industrial robots (the Kawasaki Robotics division), and i...

  • Yoav Koster

    Co-founder and CTO of FFRobotics, developing robotic fruit harvesting technology.

  • Yoav Stern

    Veteran turnaround executive who served as CEO from January 2020 until his termination in December 2024.

  • Yoichi Takamoto

    Founder, president, and CEO of tmsuk (established January 2000), a Japanese service-robotics company building practical robots for healthcare, rescue, construct...

  • Yong Zheng

    Founder and CEO of Geek+, global leader in AMR manufacturing. 45% CAGR from 2021-2024, 74.6% customer repurchase rate.

  • Yongjae Kim

    Co-CEO and CTO of WIRobotics, developing the ALLEX humanoid robot with ultra-low-friction actuation and whole-body compliance.

  • York Yang

    Co-founder of Dyna Robotics; previously at Caper AI.

  • Yoshiharu Inaba

    Yoshiharu Inaba is President and CEO of FANUC Corporation, the world's largest maker of industrial robots and factory automation systems.

  • Yoshiyuki Sankai

    Professor at University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering. Founded Cyberdyne in 2004 to commercialize the HAL exoskeleton he first...

  • Yossi Bar

    Founder and CEO of LEM Surgical. Leading development of next-generation robotic surgical systems for hard tissue and spine surgery.

  • Yossi Wolf

    Israeli entrepreneur who founded temi to create a personal robot assistant for home and commercial use, inspired by his grandmother.

  • Younbaek Lee

    Co-CEO of WIRobotics, building the ALLEX humanoid robot platform in Seoul. Leading the company's physical AI development ecosystem.

  • YT Jia

    Founder and Global CEO of Faraday Future. Chinese entrepreneur who founded the company in 2014. Led the company through its EV development phase and subsequent ...

  • Yu Hao

    Founder and CEO of Dreame Technology, founded in 2017. Built the Suzhou-based home robotics company with backing from Xiaomi, raising 63M in Series C.

  • Yu Kai

    Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics (Beijing), an AI chip and autonomous driving software company. Founded 2015. Previously chief scientist at Baidu Institute o...

  • Yu Kai

    Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, a Chinese autonomous driving computing chip company. Founded in 2015. Market value 2.5B. Launched China's first cockpit-dri...

  • Yu Tao

    Former Luckin Coffee team member responsible for chain training systems and large-scale regional store operations.

  • Yuanbo She

    Founder, CEO, and robot system architect at AICRobo.

  • Yuhang Hu

    Founder and CEO of AheadForm. Launched the company in Shanghai in 2024 at age 26 while enrolled in a Columbia doctoral program. PhD in Robotics and Machine Lear...

  • Yushan Chen

    CEO and co-founder of Artly Coffee, PhD in computer science from Boston University. Developing AI-powered robotic barista kiosks.

  • Zaki Hussein

    Founder and CEO of Touchlab. PhD in intelligent sensing and measurement from Edinburgh University. Bootstrapped the company before securing venture funding.

  • Zhang Bo

    Co-founder of DiDi and CEO of DiDi Autonomous Driving. Raised 81M in Series D, total .55B. Launching robotaxi pilot in UAE and developing L4 with GAC Aion.

  • Zhang Jun

    President and co-head of DiDi Autonomous Driving (DiDi's AV subsidiary, spun out 2020). Leads commercialization of robotaxi services in China. Previously at DiD...

  • Zhang Junbin

    Founder and CEO of Narwal Robotics, founded in 2016. Leading the Shenzhen-based robot vacuum company's cleaning revolution.

  • Zhang Shipu

    Co-founder and CEO of Noetix Robotics, partnering with Jiang Zheyuan to build the company from a rented apartment with ~100K RMB in initial capital.

  • Zhang Yanliang

    Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Weston Robot. Singapore-based deep tech robotics entrepreneur.

  • Zhao Chaohui

    CEO and founder of Youibot Robotics, PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Leading the Shenzhen-based AMR company with funding from SoftBank Ventures Asia.

  • Zhao Yue

    Founder and CEO of SEER Robotics. Admitted to the mixed class of Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.

  • Zhaopeng Chen

    CEO and co-founder of Agile Robots. Completed his doctorate at DLR developing a highly dexterous robotic hand. Leading the first unicorn in the robotics field.

  • Zhou Hongyi

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of 360 Security Technology. Leading the company's pivot to AI-powered cybersecurity and advocating for humanoid robot adoption in Chin...

  • Zhou Jian

    Founder, chairman and CEO of UBTECH Robotics (founded 2012), the Shenzhen humanoid and service robot company.

  • Zhou Jian

    Founder and CEO of UBTech Robotics (Shenzhen, founded 2012). Led the company through its 2023 Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO. Built UBTech into one of China's lar...

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