Registry
People
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.
- A. Michael Froomkin
A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, where he has taught s...
- Aaron Ames
Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Caltech. Director of the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) since 2025. Research in bip...
- Aaron Becker
NSF CAREER Award recipient (2016); research on swarm robotics, distributed robotics, human-swarm interaction, magnetic medical robots; former Research Fellow at...
- Aaron Dollar
Director of the Yale GRAB Lab and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
- Aaron Edsinger
Co-founder of Hello Robot and former director of robotics at Google X; built the Stretch mobile manipulator robot for home use
- Aaron Harris
Expa. Startup studio/VC.
- Aaron Johnson
Carnegie Mellon University professor specializing in legged robot locomotion and dynamics; director of the Robomechanics Lab
- Aaron Jones
President and CEO of Bastian Solutions.
- Aaron Nathan
Aaron Nathan is CEO and co-founder of Point One Navigation. He previously led Cornell's DARPA Grand Challenge team, was Chief Architect at Coherent Navigation (...
- Aaron Prather
Chief Technology Officer at GXO Logistics; leading deployment of humanoid robots in warehouse operations
- Aaron Saunders
Former Chief Technology Officer of [Boston Dynamics](/companies/boston-dynamics), where he spent over 22 years working on robotics engineering, including the At...
- Aaron Stucki
President of TE Connectivity's Transportation Solutions Segment, a $9.4 billion segment including Automotive, Industrial & Commercial Transportation, Applicatio...
- Aaron Zhang
Founder and CEO of A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc., an American aerospace and engineering company advancing commercial UAV delivery. Co-founded A2Z as a student projec...
- Abhi Khandelwal
Abhi Khandelwal serves as Chief Financial Officer of IDEX Corporation, overseeing the company's financial operations across its three business segments.
- Abhijeet Sathe
Co-CEO of SB Energy (SoftBank Group), leading the fully integrated infrastructure platform focused on building data centers and power infrastructure for the AI ...
- Abhinav Agarwal
Co-Founder and CTO of Clair Health, developing the first noninvasive wrist wearable for women that continuously monitors hormones. Stanford Computer Science alu...
- Abhinav Asthana
Co-founder and CEO of Postman, the API platform company.
- Abhinav Gupta
Co-founder of Skild AI and professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
- Abhinav Warrier
Co-founder and CTO of Rightbot Technologies. Previously worked at GreyOrange.
- Abhishek Gupta
Co-Founder and COO of Flux Auto, a Bengaluru-based Y Combinator W21 startup (founded 2016) building physical AI for warehouses and factories. The company develo...
- Abhishek Gupta
Assistant Professor at UW, leads the Washington Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Development (WEIRD) lab. Research in embodied AI and robotics.
- Abidur Chowdhury
Former Apple industrial designer who led the design team behind the iPhone Air. Joined Hark in fall 2025 after meeting Brett Adcock.
- Abigail Johnson
CEO of Fidelity Investments. 11 robotics/physical AI participations including Apptronik.
- Abigail Stock
Former Chief Marketing Officer at Performance Drone Works (PDW), a Huntsville, Alabama-based defense technology company building multi-mission autonomous drones...
- Academician Li Deyi
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (elected 1999) and Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Born November 28,...
- Achilleas Dorotheou
Led the Human Motion and Control business unit at Parker Hannifin, responsible for developing and commercializing the Indego powered exoskeleton for individuals...
- Achyut Shah
Group President, Power Solutions Group at onsemi.
- Adam Burris
Founder and CEO of Guardian Agriculture, developing autonomous eVTOL crop protection drones. First eVTOL-maker with FAA commercial operation approval.
- Adam Corey
Chief Business Officer of Apex Space, joined June 2023. Previously co-founder and managing partner of Village Global.
- Adam Jelley
Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.
- Adam Jiang
CEO of Syrius Robotics. Previously led Google X's Project Tang. Heads the Chinese warehouse AMR company with offices across Asia.
- Adam London
Co-founder of Astra Space.
- Adam Rodnitzky
Co-founder and former COO of Tangram Vision (2020-2024). Previously GM and VP of Marketing at Occipital. Left Tangram Vision in November 2024 after nearly five ...
- 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)...
- Adam Schachenmayr
Xplorer Capital.
- Adam Stager
Founder and CEO of TRIC Robotics (founded 2017); PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware.
- Adam Steltzner
Chief Engineer for Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing at NASA JPL. Led the sky crane landing system development.
- Adam Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer of Core Scientific, a leader in high-density infrastructure for AI and data center operations.
- Adam Wei
PhD candidate in EECS at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on sim-and-real cotraining of diffusion policies for robotic manipulation. Received Best P...
- Adam Wolf
Adam Wolf founded Arable in 2014 after building the Mark sensor with NSF grant funding at Princeton. He holds a Masters in Agronomy from UC Davis.
- Adena Friedman
Chair and CEO of Nasdaq Inc. since 2017. Appointed Chair of the Board in 2023. Nearly 14 years in leadership at Nasdaq.
- Adheesh Boratkar
Co-founder & CTO of Ulook Technologies, a Bengaluru-based space-intelligence startup building autonomous RF-sensing satellite swarms. Oversees hardware and payl...
- Aditya Agarwal
Head of Robotics at Medra, building a lab-in-the-loop system for continuous, closed-loop scientific experimentation at scale. Previously at Nimble Robotics.
- Aditya Ghosh
Former CEO of IndiGo, India's largest airline, and co-founder of Akasa Air. Serves on the board of [The ePlane Company](/companies/eplane-company), an IIT Madra...
- Adityanag Nagesh
Co-founder and CBO of Mowito. Three-time founder. Former VP Hardware at Sensara and ex-IBM.
- Admiral Mike Rogers
Retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral who served as the 17th Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) from ...
- Adnan Esmail
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (hardware / engineering leadership); previously in Hardware Technologies at Tesla and SVP of Engineering at Anduril Industri...
- Adrian Dalsey
Co-founder of DHL.
- Adrian Macneil
Co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, a robotics observability and development tooling company. Previously Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Cruise and Direct...
- Adrian Negoita
CTO of Dexory, leading the technical development of autonomous warehouse robotics and inventory systems.
- Adrian Olteanu
Head of Ada Infrastructure, a global data center platform acquired by Ares Management Corporation. Named to the role in May 2025.
- Adrian Sada
CEO of Vitro a leading glass manufacturing company based in Mexico.
- Adrian Schmidt
Co-founder and CEO of Sarla Aviation, developing India's first 700 kg-class electric eVTOL aircraft.
- Adrien Brouillard
Executive President of Stäubli Robotics division since September 2025. Joined Stäubli in 2008, held various leadership roles in the Robotics division including ...
- Agnishwar Jayaprakash
Founder and CEO of Garuda Aerospace.
- Ahmad Gaber
Team member at Norbert Health, a physical AI company developing autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities.
- Ahmed Haider
Executive in the technology/robotics industry, linked to registry companies.
- Aidan Gomez
Former Google Brain researcher. Co-founded Cohere in 2019 to build enterprise language models.
- AJ Meyer
CEO of Pickle Robot, a company developing AI-powered robotic systems for warehouse logistics and package handling.
- AJ Piplica
Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur. Co-founder and Chairman of Hermeus Corporation (founded 2018), an Atlanta-based startup developing Mach 5 hypersonic aircra...
- Ajay Sharda
Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University. Director of FarmsLab and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Agriculture a...
- 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.
- Akash Gupta
Co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange (CEO since April 2023); previously CTO and Chief Product Officer.
- Akhil Voorakkara
Co-Founder and CEO of Ulysses, the San Francisco-based maritime robotics company building networked fleets of low-cost autonomous surface and underwater vehicle...
- Akihiro Hasegawa
CEO of Sony Depthsensing Solutions as of the December 2017 rebrand from SoftKinetic. Led the transition as Sony subsidiary focused on depth sensing for mobile, ...
- Akio Morita
Co-founder of Sony Corporation, built it into a global electronics and entertainment conglomerate.
- Akio Nitori
Founder and Representative Director & Chairperson (CEO) of Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. Founded the company in 1967 in Sapporo, Japan.
- Akio Toyoda
Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. 6 robotics/physical AI participations including TRI investments.
- Akira Yamada
Founder of Daikin Industries, Ltd. (originally Osaka Metalworking Industries) in 1924
- Akitoshi Ichii
Akitoshi Ichii has served as President and CEO of NSK Ltd. since April 2021. He previously served as Executive Vice President at NSK since 2019. Under his leade...
- Ákos Dömötör
Former CEO of OptoForce, the Hungarian force/torque sensor company founded in 2012. Led commercialization of light-based robotic touch sensing. Holds MSc in Int...
- Ákos Tar
Co-founded OptoForce in 2012. Pioneer in optical force/torque sensors for robots.
- Akshay Narisetti
Founder of Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket).
- Al Avery
Co-founder of Equinix.
- Alamgir Karim
Director of International Polymer & Soft Matter Center; member of Altus Dexterity team (with CMU and UIUC) developing bio-inspired robotic hands with electrical...
- Alan Baratz
Dr. Alan Baratz is CEO of D-Wave Quantum (since 2020) and previously served as EVP of R&D and Chief Product Officer. As the first president of JavaSoft at Sun M...
- Alan Cowen
CEO & Founder of [Hume AI](/companies/hume-ai), building empathic voice interfaces and expression measurement AI. Developed semantic space theory for emotion sc...
- Alan H. Shaw
American business executive who served as President and CEO of [Norfolk Southern](/companies/norfolk-southern) from May 2022 until his termination for cause in ...
- Alan Lee
Technology executive who served as Chief Technology Officer at Cadence Design Systems, later appointed CTO of Analog Devices in April 2023. At AMD, he was Head ...
- Alan Ng
Founder and CEO of QuikBot Technologies.
- Albert Ahdoot
Albert Ahdoot is Director of Business Development at Colocation America, leading all sales efforts with 24+ years of experience as an IT entrepreneur. He is lis...
- Albert Butz
Founder of Honeywell.
- Albert Fezer
Co-founder of Festo.
- Albert Liu
Founder and CEO of Kneron. PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Previously worked at Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics R&D, MStar, and Wireless Information. Hol...
- 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, ...
- Alberto Broggi
General Manager of VisLab srl (a spinoff of the University of Parma, acquired by Ambarella in 2015) and professor of computer engineering at the University of P...
- Alberto Lacaze
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Forterra (formerly Robotic Research), founded in 2002. Oversaw all technical aspects of commercial and defense robotic systems, ...
- Alberto Quattrini Li
Director of the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab. Research in underwater robotics, SLAM, and autonomous systems.
- Alberto Verteramo
Founder and CEO of [Liftya](/companies/lifya), an Italian medical exoskeleton company developing the LiftYa device for lower-limb mobility assistance. A biomedi...
- Albie Brown
CEO and Co-founder of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. Previously co-founder and CEO of Kyoo Inc. (acquired...
- Alden Woodrow
Co-founder and CEO of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup that emerged from stealth in 2018. Previously product lead at Otto (acquired by Uber) working on self-...
- Aldo Kamper
CEO of ams OSRAM, contract extended through 2031.
- Aldo Zini
President and CEO of Aethon, maker of the TUG autonomous hospital-delivery robot; a long-time leader in hospital-automation robotics.
- Alessandro De Luca
Professor at Sapienza University Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering. Vice-President of I-RIM (Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Mach...
- 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.
- Alessio Del Bue
Alessio Del Bue is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Alex Bangash
Founder of Tamarack Global.
- Alex Gordon
Co-founder of Revolve Surgical. PhD in surgical robotics.
- Alex Hernandez
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PowerBridge, a Five Point Infrastructure portfolio company formed in May 2025 with a billion equity commitment to develo...
- Alex Hudson
CTO of Vast Space. Former SpaceX engineer responsible for spacecraft propulsion systems. Joined Vast as its first CTO in August 2023.
- Alex Joseph
CEO of Microsure, an Eindhoven-based medical robotics company developing high-precision robot-assisted systems for microsurgery. Appointed CEO in May 2026 follo...
- Alex Joseph
CEO of MicroSure, a microsurgery robotics company.
- Alex Karp
CEO and co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a data analytics software company serving government and commercial clients.
- Alex Kendall
Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based end-to-end autonomous driving company. PhD from the University of Cambridge.
- Alex Kroll
Former US Air Force test pilot with over 3,500 flight hours; co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Brings extensive operat...
- Alex Le Roux
Co-founder and CTO of ICON. Created large-scale 3D printers for construction industry. Founded 2017.
- Alex Martini-Lo Manto
Co-founder and CEO of Blockfusion USA Inc. Native Italian, fluent in four languages, with over two decades of experience in investing and managing technology-dr...
- Alex Moore
Board member of Saronic; partner at 8VC running its defense practice; previously the first employee at Palantir.
- Alex Ren
Co-founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai, founded 2015). Started with exoskeleton rehabilitation devices (ExoMotus line), expanded into general-purp...
- Alex Sergeyev
Professor of applied computing at Michigan Tech; co-leads the NSF-funded mechatronics workforce training program presented at the Congressional AI Caucus.
- Alex Shashou
Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously founded ALICE, a B2B hospitality software company.
- Alex Tilson
Founder & CEO of Neptune Medical, a Silicon Valley medical device company focused on GI robotics. Previously founded Loma Vista Medical and worked at Intuitive ...
- Alex Winter
Pioneer in multimodal sensing AI. 3x AI founder with 2 exits. PhD.
- Alex Wyatt
Founder and CEO of August Robotics, established in 2017, with Greek family roots from Kastellorizo.
- Alex Yurkowski
Executive in the technology sector, linked to registry companies.
- 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 Bahr
Co-founder of Hydromea. Expertise in underwater navigation and autonomous robotics from EPFL.
- Alexander Boehler
Alexander Boehler is the founder of Spring Active, a Tempe, Arizona-based company developing powered exoskeletons and wearable robotics for human locomotion aug...
- Alexander C. Taylor
Chairman and CEO of Cox Enterprises; fourth-generation Cox family member and great-grandson of founder James M. Cox. Joined Cox in 2000.
- Alexander Fang
Co-founded Aurrion in 2008 as CEO, developing silicon photonics for data center networking. UCSB alum who spun out research from Professor John Bowers' lab.
- Alexander Fink
President and US CEO of Swarmer (NASDAQ: SWMR), building AI-driven autonomous drone swarm software that enables a single operator to coordinate 100+ drones simu...
- Alexander Gorski
Chief Operations Officer of Infineon Technologies AG. Member of the Management Board since 1 October 2025 (appointed until 30 September 2028). Born 1972 in Rege...
- Alexander Graham Bell
Founder of AT&T.
- Alexander Hamilton
Founding father. Founded Bank of New York in 1784 predecessor of BNY Mellon.
- Alexander Kernbaum
VP of Hardware Engineering at Boston Dynamics; leads the mechanical design of Atlas electric humanoid and its custom actuators
- Alexander Koch
Alexander Koch is the CEO and Co-founder of Tau Robotics. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is a Z Fellow an...
- Alexander N. Cartwright
Sixth President of the University of Central Florida, appointed April 2020. A first-generation college graduate and engineer, he previously served as provost at...
- Alexander Reske
Co-founder and COO of RIVR, the Swiss physical-AI robotics company developing general-purpose robots for doorstep delivery. Co-founded RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile...
- 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...
- Alexander Shpunt
Co-Founder and CEO of Lyte. Previously Director, Distinguished Engineer, and Head of the Advanced Technologies Group at Apple. Co-Founder and CTO of PrimeSense ...
- Alexander Stevens
Founder and CEO of Motion, a Brussels-based Humanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) startup founded in 2026. Stevens is building Europe's first HaaS platform, which provi...
- Alexander Susanek
COO of PALFINGER AG since July 2023. Previously Managing Director of BMW Motoren GmbH (world's largest BMW engine plant, Steyr) and held leadership roles at MAN...
- Alexander van der Lof
CEO of TKH Group.
- Alexander Zosel
German entrepreneur and co-founder of Volocopter (2011) alongside Stephan Wolf; an inventor and builder who helped realize the first crewed multicopter proof-of...
- Alexandra DaCosta
CEO of Aspen Creek Digital Corporation (ACDC), a renewable Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing company.
- Alexandre Amice
PhD in EECS from MIT (2026). Former member of MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on finding and optimizing certified, collision-free regions in config...
- Alexandre Bompard
Chairman and CEO of Carrefour since September 2017.
- Alexandre Winter
Co-founder of Norbert Health, building autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities.
- 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.
- Alexis E. Block
Assistant Professor at CWRU and director of the SaPHaRI Lab. Pioneers empathetic and emotionally intelligent human-robot interaction, including the AstroPsych f...
- Alf Ianniello
Managing Director and CEO of Codan Limited, appointed January 2022. Brings extensive international experience in the packaging, defence and automotive industrie...
- Alfons Carnicero
Spanish healthcare entrepreneur from Barcelona, co-founder and CEO of ABLE Human Motion (founded 2018), a medical exoskeleton company enabling mobility for spin...
- Alfred Kärcher
Alfred Kärcher is Founder at Karcher; co-founder of Karcher.
- Alfred Lin
Co-Managing Partner / Co-Steward of Sequoia Capital since November 2025. Taiwanese-American venture capitalist; joined Sequoia in 2010. Emigrated from Taiwan at...
- Alfred Rebello
CEO of Transnorm (now part of Intelligrated Group).
- Alfred S. Harris
Alfred S. Harris was the founder of the Harris Automatic Press Company in Niles, Ohio, in 1895 — the predecessor organization that grew over more than a century...
- Alfredo Weitzenfeld
Research in biologically-inspired robotics, computational neuroscience, cognitive and multi-robot systems; NSF-funded; authored 2 books and 130+ papers; foundin...
- Ali Kutay Yarali
Founder and CEO of Delivers.ai. Turkish entrepreneur leading autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company operating across Europe, US, and Japan.
- Alice Feng
Chief Financial Officer at Kneron. 20+ years in finance, investment banking, and corporate development. Has executed 35+ M&A and financing transactions totaling...
- Alin Albu-Schäffer
Alin Albu-Schäffer is the Director of the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics since 2012, which he joined in 1995. He is also a professor at TU Munich, h...
- Alina Kolpakova
Chief Strategy Officer at Humanoid. Leads market strategy and go-to-market, focusing on industrial applications with wheeled platforms first before expanding to...
- Alireza Kenarsari
Founder and CEO of Picovoice, an edge AI voice recognition company.
- Alison Smith
Chief Executive Officer of OxTS (Oxford Technical Solutions). Joined as Commercial Director in 2017, appointed CEO in November 2022.
- Allan Evans
CEO and Chairman of Unusual Machines a US drone component manufacturer. CEO since founding.
- Allen A Dicke
Co-founder of Crown Equipment Corporation.
- Allen Huang
Founder of Yarbo, founded in 2015. Robotics engineer simplifying outdoor maintenance.
- Alok Gupta
Former Chief Financial Officer at [Performance Drone Works](/companies/performance-drone-works) (PDW), a defense drone company built by combat veterans. Alok Gu...
- Alon Kosowsky-Sachs
MIT researcher and robotics builder who co-founded Tutor Intelligence. Known at MIT for building a DIY segway robot. Leads technical development of the Ti0 VLA ...
- Alon Mozes
Co-founder and CEO of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot, founded 2009); previously a principal engineer at orthopedic-robotics pioneer MAKO Surgical.
- Alon Zehngut
VP Delivery at RGo Robotics. Manages customer deployments and application engineering.
- Alona Pammer
Co-Founder and CTO of Devanthro, leading the full robotics stack from hardware and control systems to AI-enabled autonomy. Moved from Ukraine to Germany in 2014...
- Aloysius Rauen
CEO of Demag Cranes AG, a crane and materials handling manufacturer.
- Amadeo Pietro Giannini
Founder of Bank of Italy later Bank of America.
- Aman Behel
Leads cobotic assistive arms for people with upper-extremity disabilities; $600K NIDILRR grant (2025) with Orlando Health Rehabilitation Institute for affordabl...
- 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...
- Amandeep Kaur
InBC Investment Corp. British Columbia government.
- Amandine Peltier
Director of Marketing at Hexagon Robotics, leading marketing for the AEON humanoid platform.
- 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.
- Ambarish Mitra
Co-Founder of Greyparrot. Serial tech entrepreneur with decades of experience scaling AI systems globally.
- Ameet Shah
General Partner at [Golden Ventures](/investors/golden-ventures), focusing on commerce, consumer, communities, and marketplaces. An experienced founder, operato...
- Amin Chabi
Founder and CEO of Lunasa Space, a London-based space-tech startup developing autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) solutions for in-orbit servic...
- Amir Bousani
Co-founder and CEO of RGo Robotics. Leads the company's vision and strategy for AI-powered perception technology for mobile robots.
- Amir Degani
Associate Professor at Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Heads the Civil Environmental and Agricultural Robotics (CEAR) Lab.
- Amir Khosrowshahi
CTO and co-founder of [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems), the deep-learning startup acquired by Intel for ~$408M in 2016. After the acquisition, Khos...
- Amit Dror
Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Nano Dimension, the additive electronics company.
- Amit Moran
Co-founder and CTO of Indoor Robotics, developing autonomous indoor drones for safety and security monitoring.
- Amna Mazen
Assistant professor of applied computing and manufacturing/mechanical engineering technology at Michigan Tech; leads the Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab (RRSL) ...
- Amol Hardikar
Chief Financial Officer of [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai).
- Amory Houghton Sr
Founder of Corning Incorporated.
- Amy E. Wilson
General Counsel of Dow Inc. Leads the company's legal function.
- Amy Lentz
SVP of People at 1X Technologies, overseeing the company's human resources and organizational scaling.
- Amy Luca
CMO at Tensor Auto, leading brand strategy and communications for the Tensor Robocar launch.
- Amy Villeneuve
Board Director at RGo Robotics. Experienced technology executive and board advisor.
- An Conghui (Andy An)
CEO and co-founder of Zeekr, Geely's premium electric vehicle brand founded in March 2021. Also serves as CEO of Geely Auto Group, appointed in May 2025 as part...
- Anahita Laverack
Co-founder and CEO of Oshen. Storied sailor and former aerospace engineer who founded Oshen in 2022 after competing in the Microtransat Challenge. Led the compa...
- Anand Gopalan
CEO of Velodyne LiDAR.
- Anand Narayanan
CEO of Systemantics India, building affordable articulated industrial robots and cobots. Redefined robotic arms from first principles of materials.
- Anca Dragan
VP of Research at Google DeepMind; former UC Berkeley professor; leading researcher in robot learning, human-robot interaction, and AI alignment
- Anders Forslund
Co-founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace. Leading the team electrifying regional flight.
- Anders Opedal
Chief Executive Officer of Equinor ASA, leading Norway's largest energy company through its energy transition and digital transformation including deployment of...
- Anders Svensson
President & CEO of Hexagon AB (parent of Hexagon Mining) since July 2025.
- Andre Abrami
CEO and Co-Founder of Automni.
- Andre Abrami
Co-founder of Automni.
- Andre Argenton
Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer of Dow Inc. Leads the company's technology and sustainability strategy.
- André Stein
CEO of Eviation since December 2023, appointed to lead development of the Alice all-electric commuter aircraft. A Brazil-born aerospace executive with nearly 30...
- 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 Corda
CTO of ANYbotics, leading robotics engineering for quadruped inspection robots.
- Andrea Pagnin
Andrea Pagnin is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Andrea Rhoda
CEO of Intertek Group.
- 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...
- Andreas Bibl
Serial entrepreneur. Previously co-founded and led LuxVue Technology (low-power microLED displays), acquired by Apple in 2014. Served as Senior Director of Adva...
- Andreas Forsland
Founder and CEO of Cognixion, the Assisted Reality company developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. Based in Santa Barbara, California and Toronto, On...
- Andreas Klauser
CEO of PALFINGER AG since June 2018. Previously Brand President of Case IH and STEYR at CNH Industrial, with a career spanning agricultural and industrial equip...
- Andreas Lorenz
CEO of Lorenz Messtechnik GmbH.
- Andreas Meier
Managing Director responsible for Sales, Marketing & Service at Vaillant Group.
- Andreas Muller
CEO of Georg Fischer (parent of fischertechnik).
- Andreas Urschitz
Chief Marketing Officer of Infineon Technologies AG. Member of the Management Board since 2022 (appointed until 31 May 2030). Born 1972 in Klagenfurt, Austria. ...
- Andrei Danescu
CEO of Dexory, a UK robotics company developing autonomous mobile robots for warehouse inventory management.
- Andres Arizkorreta Garcia
Executive Chairman of CAF.
- Andrés Gluski
President and CEO of The AES Corporation since 2011, leading the Fortune 500 global energy company's transformation into one of the world's largest clean power ...
- Andrés Quesada
Engineer at Technaid S.L. Co-authored CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 17664 on exoskeleton safety standards and EU EXTEND project deliverable D3.3 on BHNS for tremor...
- Andrew Anagnost
American engineer and business executive; President & CEO of Autodesk since June 2017, and a board director. Joined Autodesk as a product manager in 1997; led d...
- 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 B. Williams
Robotics researcher who directed Marquette's HEIR Lab (2012–~2018), built the MU-L8 humanoid robot, and founded the SpelBots all-female RoboCup team at Spelman ...
- Andrew Barr
CEO and General Manager of Hitachi Rail STS (Ansaldo).
- 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 Bestwick
Chief Technology Officer of [Rigetti Computing](/companies/rigetti-computing) (NASDAQ: RGTI), appointed to the role in 2024 to lead quantum processor developmen...
- Andrew Blake
British computer scientist and pioneer in computer vision. Born 1956, FRS FREng. Former Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Distinguished Sci...
- Andrew Chen
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); active in AI and robotics investments; vocal about physical AI
- Andrew Clare
CEO of Elroy Air, leading development of autonomous heavy-cargo VTOL drones. PhD-level executive scaling manufacturing for autonomous logistics platforms.
- Andrew Crose
Vice President of Autonomy for Hexagon Mining division.
- Andrew Davison
Professor of Robot Vision at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Leads the Dyson Robotics Laboratory and the Robot Vision Research Group. Pion...
- Andrew Feldman
Co-founder & CEO of Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS). Builds the world's fastest AI infrastructure with wafer-scale processors. WSE-2 has 2.6 trillion transistor...
- Andrew Hadland
Chief Financial Officer, joined Oct 2022; ex-Exel Logistics, CRST, banking in London.
- Andrew Hardy
Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Leads global sales organization.
- Andrew Hider
Chief Executive Officer of Baxter International. Appointed CEO in 2025. Previously an industrial automation executive. Leading Baxter's transformation as a glob...
- Andrew James
Andrew James is the Founder and CEO of Rootline Robotics, an agricultural robotics company he co-founded at Cornell University after winning the $50,000 grand p...
- Andrew Kiguel
Executive Chairman and CEO of Realbotix Corp. (TSXV: XBOT), a publicly traded humanoid robotics company. Co-founder and former CEO of Hut 8 Mining, one of North...
- Andrew Ng
Co-founder of Coursera.
- Andrew Power
CEO and board member of Digital Realty, a data center REIT.
- 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...
- Andrew Schaap
CEO of Aligned Data Centers since 2017. Data center, IT, private equity and real estate executive with over 25 years of experience.
- Andrew Webber
Founder and CEO of Digital Power Optimization, an energy and blockchain technology company.
- Andrija Feher
Co-founder and CTO of Synapticon. Computer scientist who co-founded the company in 2012. Retains expanded role as CTO ensuring the technology roadmap remains at...
- Andriy Mulyar
Co-founder and CEO of Nomic AI (founded 2022), building accessible AI tools including GPT4All and Nomic Embed. Previously a Ph.D. student at NYU Courant Institu...
- Andy Berliner
Founder and CEO of Amys Kitchen. Reassumed CEO role in 2025.
- Andy Hwang
General Partner at Wavemaker Partners. Leads the firm's early-stage fund, Wavemaker Ventures. Former leader at Facebook, Google, and Stripe. Holds an MBA from T...
- Andy Jassy
Founder of AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- Andy Lapsa
Co-founder and CEO of Stoke Space, developing fully reusable rockets. Co-founded Stoke in 2019 with Tom Feldman after eight years at Blue Origin leading BE-3 an...
- 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.
- Andy Marchese
Founding head of hardware at Walden Robotics. Previously spent 10+ years at Amazon Robotics.
- Andy Micallef
Executive Vice President and Chief Operations and Manufacturing Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Leads global manufacturing and operations.
- Andy OBrien
President and Chief Executive Officer of ConocoPhillips, effective September 1 2026. Previously CFO and EVP Strategy and Commercial.
- Andy Ory
Interim CEO of QuEra Computing (July 2024-present), guiding the neutral-atom quantum computing company through its commercial scale-up and a $230M Series B led ...
- Andy von Flotow
Founder of AVID LLC, an aerospace engineering and simulation company.
- Andy White
Chief Revenue Officer at MSB Global Services. Seasoned program and business strategist with over 20 years of experience leading cross-functional teams across HV...
- Angela Huyue Zhang
Angela Huyue Zhang is a Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law, where she joined the faculty in 2024 after nearly a decade in Hong Kong and prior appoi...
- Angelique Ahlstrom
Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019), the tree-planting-drone reforestation company.
- Anirudh Devgan
President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems since December 2021, and a member of the Board of Directors since August 2021. Previously served as President of Cad...
- Anirudh Vemula
Head of AI at Gritt. Researcher from CMU Robotics Institute. Author of seminal papers on robot manipulation and learning.
- Anirudha Majumdar
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton. Inaugural co-director of Princeton Robotics.
- Anish Shah
CEO of Mahindra & Mahindra, a diversified Indian multinational with operations in automotive, aerospace, and farm equipment.
- Anita Szarek
Chief Financial Officer of Helsing (effective May 2026); previously CFO at Qonto and Pleo.
- Anita Verma-Lallian
CEO and Founder of Arizona Land Consulting.
- Ankit Kumar
Founder and CEO of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform. Founded the Gurugram-based company in ...
- Ankit Mehta
CEO of ideaForge Technology, an Indian drone manufacturer producing UAVs for defense and industrial applications.
- Anmol Manohar
Co-founder and CEO of Greenjets. Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS). Educated at Imperial College London. Previously...
- Anna Cheniuntai
Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company.
- Anna Oh
Builds trust between patients, clinicians, and machines.
- Anne Bramman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc.
- 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 Capuano
President and CEO of Marriott International. Appointed CEO in February 2023, later also named President.
- Anthony Gunderman
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UArk; PI of Maverick Rural Robotics Lab. Soft robotic grippers for blackberry harvesting, medical robotics.
- Anthony Ledru
President and CEO of Tiffany & Co. since January 2021, leading the luxury jeweler under LVMH ownership. Previously held senior leadership roles at Louis Vuitton...
- Anthony Levesque
Anthony Levesque is CEO of AAIM Data Centers, bringing over two decades of leadership in the data center industry; he previously served as Vice President at Bit...
- Anthony Lin
Managing partner of Intel Capital. 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Anthony Louie Velasco
CEO of Atlas Compute, developing AI data center campuses.
- 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...
- Anthony van der Ley
CEO of LEMKEN GmbH Co. KG.
- 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...
- Antoine Pirrone
R&D Engineer at [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics) (now Pollen Robotics × Hugging Face), where he is a core developer of the [Microduck](/models/micr...
- Antoine Tournet
Co-founder and CEO of DIODON Drone Technology. Led the company from a student project at ISAE-SUPAERO to a maritime UAV company serving defense and security cli...
- Anton Niederberger
CEO of Serbot AG, a Swiss company developing cleaning robots for solar panels and glass facades.
- Antonio Filosa
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Stellantis N.V. (Euronext: STLA), the world's fourth-largest automaker by volume (14 brands including Jeep, Ra...
- Antonio Li
Antonio Li is the founder of Nori Robotics, building affordable bimanual robots for household tasks. Previously published research on low-cost robot platforms.
- Antonio Mileto
Sofinnova Partners. European medtech/biotech.
- Antonio Neri
President & CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) since February 2018.
- Antonio Rodriguez
Managing partner at Valor Equity. 5 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Antoon De Proft
CEO of Septentrio. Led the company through its acquisition by Hexagon in 2025.
- 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...
- Anura Jayasumana
Professor, ECE. Canine exoskeleton robotics, wearable assistive devices.
- Anurag Dutta
Co-founder and CEO of Rightbot Technologies. Former consultant at Kearney.
- Apollo Zhong
CEO of XGIMI MemoMind.
- Apoorva Mehta
Founder of Instacart (2012). Former Amazon supply chain engineer. Served as CEO until 2021, then transitioned to Executive Chairman of the Board.
- Arata Shimizu
Representative Director and President (CEO) of [MISUMI Group](/companies/misumi), appointed April 2026. Previously Senior Executive Director and CIO at MISUMI. ...
- 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.
- Ariel Ekblaw
Co-founder of Rendezvous Robotics. Founded and directed the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT Media Lab, where TESSERAE was developed. Tested TESSERAE on the ISS via Axi...
- Ariel Macys
Scale Venture Partners. Enterprise tech.
- 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.
- Arijit Sengupta
Co-founder of antuit.ai.
- Arik Avni
Co-CEO of Motorika Medical. Led the partnership with ORIGIN Polska and the introduction of the Optimal-G Pro with ELITE technology. Overseeing Motorika business...
- Arild Gjerde
President and CEO of Kverneland Group and Kubota Business Unit.
- Ariyan Kabir
Co-founder and CEO of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); PhD in Robotics/AI from USC.
- Arjan Mulder
Chief Commercial Officer at AgXeed, serves as press contact.
- Arjun Bansal
VP Algorithms and co-founder of [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems), specializing in deep-learning software and neural-network optimization. After Int...
- Arkady Volozh
Founder and CEO of Nebius Group, an Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure company formed from the non-Russian assets of Yandex in 2024. Co-founded Yandex in 1997 an...
- Armen Arakelyan
Co-founder & CTO at Ornadyne, building autonomous flapping-wing aircraft. Previously a Starship components engineer at SpaceX. Before that, led machining at USC...
- 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.
- Armin Koller
Co-founder and CEO of KEMARO, leading the Swiss robotics company founded in 2016 in autonomous industrial cleaning robots.
- Armin Papperger
CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG (CEO since 1 January 2013; appointed until 31 December 2029). Born 1963, engineering graduate. Joined ...
- Arnaud Robert
President of Hexagon Robotics (March 2025–present). PhD in Computer Science from EPFL. 25+ years in technology leadership across six industries, including prior...
- Arnd Franz
CEO of MAHLE Group.
- 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 Kütt
Co-founder of Rollo Robotics (2025) and founder of Cleveron (2006), the Estonian robotics leader known for automated parcel lockers and retail robots deployed i...
- 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.
- Aron Frishberg
Founder and CEO of Gatsby Robotics. University of Chicago dropout who previously worked at hedge fund Third Point and at Fira, a Y Combinator W25 startup. Found...
- Aronin Ponnappan
Co-founder and CEO of Sastra Robotics. Robotics specialist helping QA teams with robotics-aided test automation.
- Aroosh Thillainathan
Founder and CEO of Ardent Data Centers.
- 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...
- Art Swift
President and CEO of Esperanto Technologies.
- 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 Blank
Co-founder of The Home Depot.
- Arthur del Prado
Co-founder of ASML Holding (founded 1984). Founder and CEO of ASM International who proposed the joint venture with Philips that became ASML.
- Arthur Dubois
Aerospace engineer and startup leader; co-founder and CEO of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Stanford-trained, formerly scaled engineering at Joby Aviation a...
- 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 J. Schmitt
Founder of Amphenol (founded 1932 in Chicago). First product was a tube socket for radio tubes.
- Arthur Kolesnikov
Founder and CEO of In-Pipe Robot Inc., developing robotic pipeline inspection systems using digital twins and cutting-edge robotics.
- Arthur Patterson
Co-founder of Accel. 7 robotics/physical AI participations including Mind Robotics.
- Arthur Richards
Co-Director of Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a leading academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK.
- Arthur Taubman
Founder of Advance Auto Parts (founded 1932 in Roanoke Virginia).
- Artie Starrs
President and Chief Executive Officer of Harley-Davidson since October 2025. Previously CEO of Topgolf and former Pizza Hut CEO.
- Arturo Forner-Cordero
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Head of the Biomechatronics Laborato...
- Arvind Kaushal
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of TE Connectivity since November 2018. Responsible for leading the enterprise strategy team and shaping TE's s...
- Asad Tirmizi
Co-founder and CEO of Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS), a San Francisco and Trondheim-based startup building Acteris, a robot-agnostic AI skills platform f...
- Ashish Mohite
Co-founder and CTO of Hyperion Robotics. One of Europe's foremost robotics and 3D-printing experts with a PhD in 3D printing and construction; blends architectu...
- 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 ...
- Ashtesh Kumar
Co-Founder and CTO of Manastu Space, an Indian space-tech company building green satellite propulsion and space-debris mitigation systems. An IIT Bombay alumnus...
- Ashton Soniat
CEO of Coinmint LLC.
- Ashu Rege
Vice President of Autonomy at DoorDash Labs, DoorDash's robotics and automation arm. Joined DoorDash in November 2021 from Zoox, where he led the development of...
- Assaf Agmon
Co-founder and VP R&D of RGo Robotics. Oversees research and development for the Perception Engine platform.
- Assaf Chaprak
Serial entrepreneur in advanced robotics and manufacturing, focused on building scalable systems for demanding real-world applications.
- Assaf Friedler
Co-founder of AgriPass, developing human-inspired AI for adaptive field operations in agriculture.
- Assar Gabrielsson
Co-founder of Volvo Group.
- Atsuo Takanishi
Professor at Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering, Director of the Humanoid Robotics Institute (established 2000, re-established as Project Rese...
- Aude Billard
Professor and head of LASA lab at EPFL; world expert in robot learning from demonstration and dexterous manipulation
- Audley Wilson
Co-founder and CEO of RoboBurger, data scientist who invented the world's first fully autonomous burger machine. Featured on Shark Tank.
- August Claas
German entrepreneur who founded CLAAS in 1913 in Herzebrock, Germany, initially manufacturing straw binders with his brothers Franz, Bernhard, and Theo. The fam...
- Augustin Crampette
Mechatronics and Robotics Engineer at [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics) (now Pollen Robotics × Hugging Face), where he is a core developer of the [M...
- Aurélien Cord
CTO and co-founder of Stanley Robotics. Developed autonomous outdoor valet parking technology deployed at Lyon Airport.
- 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...
- Austin Briggs
Co-founder & CTO of Inversion Space. Former early employee at ABL Space Systems, where he was Responsible Engineer for the upper stage thrust chamber assembly.
- Avi Abadi
Israeli inventor and entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics (Ozmo window-cleaning robot).
- Avi Gotskind
Co-founder and CGO (Chief Growth Officer) of Voltair. Previously a consultant on go-to-market and government affairs strategy across aerospace and space compani...
- 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...
- Avihou Barkay
Co-founder of UNIT AI, a Boston-based physical AI company building modular warehouse robotics for e-commerce fulfillment. Formerly President of Plus One Robotic...
- Aviram Shmueli
Co-founder of Bluewhite. One of three original founders who established the company in 2017 to bring practical autonomy to off-road environments.
- Aviv Shapira
Co-founder and CEO of XTEND, an Israeli AI-powered robotics and drone operating-system company founded in 2018. Former Israeli Air Force missile test director; ...
- Aviv Tzidon
Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Eviation Aircraft in 2015, the company developing the Alice all-electric commuter aircraft. Also founder and Chairman of ...
- Avner Applbaum
CEO of Valmont Industries, providing infrastructure and agriculture solutions including automated irrigation and robotics.
- Avraham Cohen
Co-founder of MediTouch Ltd. Israeli rehabilitation technology company founded in 2004.
- Axel Wenner-Gren
Swedish entrepreneur (1881–1961) who founded Electrolux in 1919. Pioneered the domestic vacuum cleaner by adapting industrial models for home use, building Elec...
- Ayanna Howard
Dean of Engineering at Ohio State University; former NASA JPL researcher; expert in human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, and accessible technology
- AyJay Lasater
CTO and Co-founder of [Albedo Space](/companies/albedo), an American aerospace company developing Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites for defense and earth o...
- Ayman Sawaf
Founder of HIVE, a blockchain and Web3 infrastructure company.
- Ayushmoy Roy
Co-Founder & Head of Product & Technology at Pace Robotics. MS Robotics from University of Pennsylvania. Built the foundations of Pace Robotics.
- Azim Eskandarian
Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Dean of the College of Engineering at VCU, director of the Autonomous Robots and Vehicles Laboratory. Research in autonomous...
- B. Marc Allen
American aerospace executive; President & CEO of Electra.aero since 2024, leading the company's EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL...
- Babak Daneshrad
Co-founder and CEO of Silvus Technologies. PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, where he served as Professor from 1996 to 2019. Pioneered MIMO-OFDM technolo...
- 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,...
- Baiju Bhatt
Founder and CEO of Aetherflux (now Cowboy Space Corporation), a San Carlos, California-based startup developing space-based solar power beaming via infrared las...
- Balaji Viswanathan
Founder and CEO of [Invento Robotics](/companies/invento-robotics), a Bengaluru-based company developing the Mitra humanoid service robot. PhD in Computer Scien...
- 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...
- Baofang Jin
Founder and Chairman of JA Solar.
- Barney Wragg
Co-founder and CEO of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM alongside co-founder Simon Watt. Announced the company's wind-down in June 2023 via LinkedIn.
- Barry Babcock
Co-founder of Charter Communications.
- Barry Bentley
Co-founder of Bentley Systems.
- Barry Dunn
President of South Dakota State University.
- 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.
- Barry Rosen
Strategic Development Fund.
- Bartolomej Janek
Slovak engineer (Ing. Bartolomej Janek, CSc.) who co-invented the TwinSpin® high-precision reduction gear in the early 1990s with Tibor Fecko. Co-founded Spinea...
- Basel Shuhaiber
CEO of Marakeb Technologies. Led the company from maritime autonomy to platform-agnostic unmanned systems across aerial, ground, and marine domains.
- Basil Weibel
Co-founder of Wingtra (founded 2014), the ETH Zurich VTOL-survey-drone spin-off behind the WingtraOne.
- Behrokh Khoshnevis
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Contour Crafting Corporation, pioneer of construction-scale 3D printing and inventor of Contour Crafting technology.
- Beibei Ren
Research in robust control theory for robotics, mechatronics, and energy systems including quadrotor UAV control; multiple NSF awards totaling ~$1.1M; holds two...
- Belinda Marchand
Chief Scientist at [Slingshot Aerospace](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/slingshot-aerospace), promoted in May 2022. PhD from Purdue University (Aerona...
- Belinda Zhang
CEO of QYSEA, a Chinese underwater robotics company developing ROVs for industrial and consumer applications.
- Ben Alfi
Co-founder and CEO of Bluewhite. Led the company from a retrofit-kit startup to acquisition by Elbit Systems in 2026. Previously worked in autonomous systems an...
- Ben Amor
Co-founder of Kiwi Robotics.
- Ben Bloom
Founder and CEO of Atom Computing, a Berkeley-based neutral-atom quantum computing company he founded in January 2018. Holds a PhD in physics from the Universit...
- Ben Brigham
Founder of Atlas Energy Solutions.
- Ben Bryson
Ben Bryson is the President of HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær), a division of Spectris plc. HBK is the world's foremost provider of integrated test, measurement, c...
- Ben Cipperley
Chief Strategy Officer at HavocAI. Former 26-year U.S. Navy veteran, including 18 years as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer with three combat tours.
- Ben Claman
CEO and Co-founder of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. MIT mechanical engineer from Anchorage, Alaska; buil...
- Ben Gagnon
CEO of Bitfarms.
- Ben Horowitz
Co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Previously co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1....
- Ben Katz
Mechanical engineer who designed MIT Mini Cheetah's low-cost high-torque actuators; influential open-source actuator designer
- 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...
- Ben Mildenhall
Co-founder of World Labs. Creator of neural radiance fields (NeRF), a breakthrough in 3D reconstruction and generative graphics.
- Ben Scott-Robinson
Co-founder and CEO of Small Robot Company, a UK agricultural robotics startup developing autonomous farming robots for precision agriculture.
- Ben Tigner
Founder and CEO of Overair, an eVTOL aircraft company spun off from Karem Aircraft. Developing the Butterfly eVTOL air taxi.
- Ben Tigner
CEO of Overair Inc.
- Benedek Tasi
Co-founder of Allonic. Budapest-based robotics startup. 3D Tissue Braiding platform for automated robotic body manufacturing. .2M raised. Founded 2025.
- Benjamin Holt
Co-founder of Caterpillar Inc.
- Benjamin Marshall
Co-Managing Director of Chestnut River Power and Infrastructure, a data center and power infrastructure developer in Massachusetts.
- Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Founder and CEO of Pliant Energy Systems, developing biomimetic undulating robots with novel fin-based propulsion systems.
- Benno Wimmer
Founder of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG in 1991. Stepped down from his operational role in January 2024 as part of a management expansion, handing leadershi...
- Benoit Sagot-Duvauroux
Founder and director of GOBIO Robot, a French exoskeleton company acquired by Europe Technologies in 2017. Responsible for exoskeletons at GOBIO/Europe Technolo...
- 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.
- Bentzion Levinson
Founder and CEO of Heven Drones (Heven AeroTech). Former Israeli special forces officer. Founded Heven Drones in 2019 to develop hydrogen-powered UAVs.
- Beong-Soo Kim
President of USC since February 2025.
- Bercan Kilic
Founder and CEO of microagi. Former Formula 1 engineer at Red Bull Racing; founded microagi in late 2025 to build a robotics deployment layer for industrial man...
- Bernard Charles
CEO of Dassault Systemes (1995-2024).
- Bernard J. Zovighian
Bernard J. Zovighian succeeded Michael Mussallem as CEO of Edwards Lifesciences on May 11, 2023.
- Bernard Liautaud
General Partner at Balderton. European VC.
- Bernd Koerner
Former CEO and current President of Fori Automation, a Shelby Township, Michigan-based custom automation and machine tool company. Son of founder Arthur Koerner...
- Bernd Liepert
Former CTO of KUKA Robotics and president of euRobotics; influential figure in European industrial and humanoid robotics
- Bernd Montag
CEO of Siemens Healthineers.
- Bernhard Beumer
Founder of BEUMER Group.
- Bernhard Dwersteg
Co-founder and CTO of [Trinamic Motion Control](/companies/trinamic) (now part of Analog Devices via Maxim Integrated), one of three original founders who devel...
- Bernhard Mosling
Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation in 1917. Patented the front driving axle with improved steering and drive capacity (1915).
- Bernhard Paus Graesdal
PhD candidate in EECS at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on motion planning using Graphs of Convex Sets (GCS), including multi-query shortest-path ...
- Bernhard Sendhoff
CEO of Honda Research Institute.
- Bernie Marcus
Co-founder of The Home Depot.
- 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 and founder of 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics). Invented the Revo1 actuator and founded the company in 2014 to build general-p...
- Bernt Øivind Børnich
Norwegian roboticist who founded 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics) in 2014 to build general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.
- Bert Somsin
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at onsemi.
- 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...
- Bertram Hoffmann
CEO of Wittenstein AG.
- Bertrand Loy
CEO of Entegris, a materials science company serving the semiconductor industry with specialty chemicals and materials.
- Beth Flippo
Founder and CEO of DEXA (Drone Express). Embedded software developer with a background in electronics and computer science. Spun DEXA off from Telegrid, her fam...
- Bethany Bongiorno
Co-founder and CEO of Humane Inc., the AI pin company. Previously worked at Apple on the iPad. Company was acquired by HP in 2025.
- Betsy Cantwell
President of Washington State University.
- Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis
CEO of Elbit Systems, leading the Israeli defense contractor's aerospace and defense systems.
- Bhagaban Behera
Bhagaban Behera co-founded Yotta Data Services, a Hiranandani Group company operating Asia's largest Tier IV data center in Navi Mumbai.
- Bharath Sankaran
Co-founder of Scaled Robotics (later Naska.AI), the construction quality-control robotics company; a robotics researcher.
- Bhavin Dharia
M.Sc. Machine vision specialist and robotics software engineer. Co-founder and Lead Software Developer at TetraGen Robotics.
- Bhavish Aggarwal
Indian entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Ola Consumer (formerly Ola Cabs), which he co-founded with Ankit Bhati in January 2011. He is also the founder of Ola ...
- 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 Austen
Interim President and CEO of Arrow Electronics since September 16 2025. Member of Arrow Board of Directors since May 2020.
- Bill Betz
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Previously served in finance leadership roles at NXP.
- Bill Burns
CEO of Zebra Technologies since March 2023. Sold robotics automation business to Skild AI in April 2026.
- Bill Cawley
Chairman and CEO of Cawley Partners, a Dallas-based commercial real estate company specializing in investing developing leasing and managing office buildings.
- Bill Ford
CEO of General Atlantic. Global growth equity.
- Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft.
- Bill Gurley
Partner at Benchmark. Backed Figure AI, Snapchat, Uber.
- Bill Hewlett
Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HPE origins).
- Bill Hewlett
Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
- Bill Huang
Founder and CEO of CloudMinds (达闼科技, also known as Dataa Robotics), a Chinese cloud-connected robotics company he established in 2015. Born in China, he earned ...
- Bill Maris
Founder of GV (Google Ventures). 10 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Bill Severn
Bill Severn serves as CEO and President of 1623 Farnam, an Omaha-based carrier hotel and data center operator, having been appointed in 2024 after 25 years with...
- Billal Hammoud
President and CEO of Honeywell Process Technology.
- 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.
- Bin Wang
General Manager of Tuopu Group.
- 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...
- Biyun Xie
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Director of the Intelligent Robotic Arms (IRA) Lab. ...
- Blake Barber
Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Glydways, leading the technical development of the company autonomous personal rapid transit system on dedicated guideway...
- Blake Moret
Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation.
- Blake Resnick
Founder of BRINC Drones.
- Bo Chen
Co-founder and CEO of Enway, the German maker of autonomous electric sweeping robots.
- Bob DeSantis
Bob DeSantis co-founded 365 Data Centers and served as CEO until his planned retirement in 2025; he was succeeded by Derek Gillespie as CEO, with Steve Amelio p...
- Bob Fayfield
Founder of Banner Engineering. Founded in 1966. Global leader in process and industrial automation sensors, machine vision, and wireless monitoring.
- Bob Pudney
President and CEO of BlackSea Technologies, a Baltimore-based naval technology firm manufacturing unmanned surface vessels (USVs) for U.S. and allied naval forc...
- Bob Raida
CEO of [HEBI Robotics](/companies/hebi-robotics), a Pittsburgh-based modular actuator company spun out of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Undergraduate ...
- Bob Udell
President and CEO of Consolidated Communications (Fidium) until end of 2025, transitioning to Board Vice Chairman.
- Bobak Tavangar
CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company developing open-source AR glasses and AI-powered wearable devices.
- Bobby Healy
CEO of Manna Air Delivery, an Irish drone delivery company providing autonomous drone delivery of food and medical supplies.
- Bobby Murphy
Co-founder and CTO of Snap Inc. Stanford University classmate of Evan Spiegel; oversees engineering and product development.
- Boris Sofman
Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader. Building autonomous systems for construction.
- Boris Yangel
Head of AI at Humanoid AI. 17+ years in ML/DL, formerly Head of AI at Nebius.
- Boyuan Chen
PhD in EECS from MIT (2025). Former member of MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on sim-and-real cotraining of diffusion policies for robotic manipula...
- Brad Beckham
Chief Executive Officer of O'Reilly Automotive since February 1, 2024 — the fourth CEO in the company's history. An O'Reilly team member since 1996, he started ...
- Brad Bogolea
Co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics, maker of the Tally retail inventory robot; founded the company in 2014.
- Brad Dwyer
Co-founder and CTO of Roboflow, a computer vision platform enabling over one million developers to build and deploy CV applications. A serial entrepreneur, he p...
- Brad Griffith
CEO of Freight Farms since 2025.
- Brad Lightcap
Chief Operating Officer of [OpenAI](/companies/openai), overseeing business, operations, and strategic partnerships across Research, Applied AI, and go-to-marke...
- Brad Pinchuk
Acquired Hirschbach in 2019; Army veteran; Gustavus Adolphus College. Previously CEO/Owner.
- Bradley Dillon
CEO of Luxonis.
- Bradley Dillon
CEO of Luxonis.
- Bradley Willems
Bradley Willems succeeded Phil Homan as CEO of Loram in May 2023, having previously served as President and COO.
- Brady Knight
MIT mechanical engineering graduate (Class of 2016) and co-founder of Spyce, the robotic kitchen startup that pioneered automated wok-based cooking. A former MI...
- Bram Blondé
CEO of Active Ants, a fully mechanized and digitalized e-commerce fulfillment company. Became CEO in August 2023 when bpostgroup acquired full ownership.
- 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 Craig
Career-long BHP executive with over 25 years across commodities; appointed CEO of BHP Group effective 1 July 2026, succeeding Mike Henry. Most recently Presiden...
- Brandon Duderstadt
Co-founder of Nomic AI (founded 2022). Johns Hopkins Engr '18,'19 (MSE) graduate in applied mathematics and biomedical engineering.
- Brandon Florian
Aerospace and defense executive; Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Previously led business development at Northrop Grumman, S...
- Brandon J. Sink
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lowe's Companies, Inc., appointed effective April 30, 2022.
- Brandon Minor
Co-founder and CEO of Tangram Vision (founded 2020). Former Principal Manager of the robotics and calibration team at Occipital, creators of the Structure Senso...
- Brandon Robinson
CEO of Horizon Aircraft.
- Brandon Torres Declet
Chair and CEO of Exyn Technologies, an autonomous drone mapping company.
- Brandon Tseng
Co-founder and President of Shield AI; a former US Navy SEAL.
- Brendan Bechtel
Chairman and CEO of Bechtel Corporation. Became CEO in 2016 and Chairman in 2017. Fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. Previously served ...
- Brendan Iribe
Co-founder and former CEO of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform before joining Oculus in 2012.
- Brendan Smith
Director of Manufacturing at Vatn Systems, overseeing the Rhode Island production facility with capacity for 2,000+ vehicles annually.
- Brendan Szuwalski
Head of Airframe at [MightyFly](/companies/mightyfly), responsible for primary structures, mechanisms, and powertrain development for autonomous hybrid eVTOL ca...
- Brendon Allen
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and director of the Controls, Autonomy, and Rehabilitation Engineering (CARE) Lab. Research f...
- Brent Lang
Chairman and CEO of Vocera Communications from 2008 until the Stryker acquisition in 2022. Joined Vocera in the early 2000s, promoted to president and COO in 20...
- 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 Bejcek
Co-founder of Limitless (formerly Rewind AI), an AI wearable memory augmentation startup acquired by Meta in December 2025. Co-founded with Dan Siroker in 2020....
- Brett Diamond
Brett Diamond is the founder, Chairman and CEO of 11:11 Systems, previously co-founding and leading Hudson Fiber Network as CEO before establishing 11:11 System...
- Brett Lindenfeld
Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the space-robotics company behind robotic arms and mechanisms for NASA missions.
- Brett Velicovich
Founder of Powerus, a defense technology company developing drone and robotics systems for military applications.
- 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 Barnett
Chief Technology Officer at Nyobolt, a UK-based fast-charging battery technology company spun out of the University of Cambridge. Dr. Barnett is a recognized ex...
- Brian Carlisle
Stanford graduate student who co-founded Adept Technology in 1983 with Bruce Shimano and Victor Scheinman.
- Brian Cornell
American business executive, Executive Chair of Target Corporation since February 2026. He served as Chair and CEO of Target from August 2014 through January 20...
- Brian Davidson
Former DARPA AI Lead, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Expert.
- Brian E. O'Toole
Chief Executive Officer and Director of [BlackSky](/companies/blacksky) (NYSE: BKSY), a geospatial intelligence company providing real-time satellite imagery an...
- Brian Evanko
President and CEO of The Cigna Group since July 2026. Previously served as President and COO and EVP and CFO of Cigna.
- 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 Hoyt
Chief Operations Officer at Parkway Venture Capital.
- Brian Ichter
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; previously a research scientist in Google DeepMind robotics.
- Brian Johnson
CEO of Gamma 2 Robotics.
- Brian Jones
Co-founder and COO of Deterrence. Previously co-founder of Latch.
- Brian Joseph
Co-founder of Vitestro (founded 2017), the autonomous robotic phlebotomy company.
- Brian K. Plancher
Assistant Professor at Dartmouth. Research in optimizing robotic systems at all scales.
- Brian Katz
Co-founder and President of PowerHouse Data Centers and American Real Estate Partners (AREP). Oversees strategic growth and fund management.
- Brian Kohlwes
General Counsel & Chief Risk Officer since 2015; Iowa State undergrad, Drake Law.
- Brian Manning
Co-founder and CEO of Xona Space Systems.
- Brian McCornack
Professor and Department Head of Entomology at Kansas State University. Research integrates mobile technologies, digital delivery of Extension information, and ...
- Brian Moynihan
Chair of the Board and CEO of Bank of America.
- Brian O'Toole
CEO and Director of [BlackSky](/companies/blacksky) (NYSE: BKSY), a real-time geospatial intelligence and space-data analytics company. Named CEO in 2018 (previ...
- 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 Roberts
CEO of Comcast.
- Brian Sandoval
17th President of the University of Nevada, Reno. Former Governor of Nevada.
- Brian Schimpf
Co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries; previously an engineering leader at Palantir Technologies.
- Brian Sikes
Chairman & CEO of Cargill. 10th CEO in Cargill's 160-year history. Leads the largest privately held company in the US by revenue.
- Brice Hill
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Applied Materials, Inc., appointed March 2022. Also oversees Global Information Services. 25+ years of fina...
- Bridgit Mendler
Co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, building a phased-array ground station network for satellite communications. Former Disney Channel actress and singer tur...
- Brigitte de Vet
CEO of Materialise.
- Brual Shah
Co-founder and CTO of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); leads the company's technical vision for AI-powered robotic systems that demystify industrial robotics...
- Bruce C.H. Cheng
Founder and Honorary Chairman of Delta Electronics. Founded the company in 1971 and served as Chairman until 2012. Defined Delta's corporate mission to provide ...
- Bruce Cheng
Founder of Delta Electronics.
- 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...
- Bruce Floersheim, Ph.D., P.E.
Co-founder and COO of GoX Labs (formerly GoX Studio). US Army veteran. Former director of technology design innovation center at West Point. Co-founded FITT Sci...
- Bruce Lichorowic
President and CEO of Galen Robotics. Led the company through FDA De Novo clearance for the Galen ES surgical robot and $15M Series A funding round.
- Bruce Shimano
Stanford graduate student who co-founded Adept Technology in 1983 with Brian Carlisle and Victor Scheinman, building on work at Stanford's AI lab.
- Bruce Vaughn
President and Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Imagineering.
- 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 of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. University of Waterloo mechatronics engineering graduate.
- Bryant Park
CFO of [Plus](/companies/plus), responsible for the company's financial operations and strategy.
- Bryant Walker Smith
Bryant Walker Smith is an Associate Professor of Law at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law and a courtesy faculty member in the College of Engineering and Computi...
- 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.
- C.C. Wei
CEO of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), the world’s largest contract semiconductor foundry.
- C.E. Woolman
Founder of Delta Air Lines.
- C.L. Best
Co-founder of Caterpillar Inc.
- C.R. Smith
Founding president of American Airlines.
- Cadwallader C. Washburn
American businessman, politician, and Civil War major general (1818-1882) who founded the Washburn B Mill in Minneapolis in 1866. The mill later became Washburn...
- Cameron Grogan
Founder of Williams Brothers Development, a data center development company. Active in Georgia data center projects including Hall County and McDuffie County.
- Cameron Jones
Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019 with brother Bryce Jones and Angelique Ahlstrom), the reforestation-drone company.
- Cameron McLain
Founder Giant Ventures. Climate/sustainability.
- 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...
- Camillo J. Taylor
Director of the GRASP Lab at UPenn. Research in computer vision and robotics.
- Cao Junliang
CTO of LUMOS Robotics with over a decade of industry experience in robotics.
- Cao Ruikun
Former Luckin Coffee team member responsible for large-scale regional store chain operations and brand standardization systems.
- Cao Sheng
Founded Shenzhen Flycolor Electronic Co., Ltd. (飞盈佳乐) in 2009 and has led the company to become a leading manufacturer of brushless motor ESCs for drones and RC...
- Cao Ying
Co-founder of SEAHI Robotics. Served as professional judge at the First Harbin Engineering University Science Popularization Competition.
- 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 Benteler
Founder of BENTELER Group.
- Carl Bertelsmann
Founder of Bertelsmann.
- Carl Eschenbach
CEO of Workday, a cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in HR and financial management.
- Carl H Dicke
Co-founder of Crown Equipment Corporation.
- Carl Pei
Swedish-Chinese entrepreneur (b. 1989, Beijing). Co-founder and CEO of Nothing, the consumer electronics company known for transparent-design smartphones and au...
- Carl Vause
Former CEO of Soft Robotics Inc. (now Oxipital AI); joined in 2013 to commercialize the Whitesides lab's soft-gripper technology.
- Carla Gómez Cano
Co-founder & CEO of THEKER Robotics. Robotics and AI engineer who co-founded THEKER in 2022 with Jiaqiang Ye Zhu after competing together in robotics at UPC Bar...
- Carlo Ratti
Italian architect and designer, founder of CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati and MIT Senseable City Lab. Created the Makr Shakr robotic bartending system.
- Carlos Fernandez Isoird
Founding partner and CEO of GOGOA Mobility Robots. Led the company from its H2020-funded HANK project to becoming the first European company to obtain CE Mark f...
- Carlos Guestrin
Director of the Stanford AI Lab.
- Carlos Salaff
Co-founder and Design Director of [LEO Flight](/companies/leo-flight), an eVTOL aviation company competing in the GoAERO emergency-response flyer competition. A...
- Carlyle Fraser
Founder of Genuine Parts Company.
- Carol Tomé
CEO of UPS since June 2020. Previously CFO of United Parcel Service. Led UPS through major automation transformation including $9B investment in warehouse robot...
- Caroline Walerud
Founder and CEO of AirForestry (registered 2020), a Swedish startup developing autonomous electric drones that thin forests from the air.
- Caroline Whitton
CEO of Spanx, appointed in 2024. Also known as Cricket Whitton. Jeanne Jackson serves as executive chair of the board.
- Carsten Breuer
Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces), the highest-ranking soldier. Responsible for overall military defence concept, command and control, a...
- Carter Hou
Founder of Halliday, a Shenzhen-based wearable tech startup behind the DigiWindow smart glasses. Led the company through its CES 2025 debut and record-breaking ...
- Casey Shiue
President of Molicel (E-One Moli Energy Corp.). Leading the company's battery cell R&D and manufacturing, with core technology remaining in Taiwan while expandi...
- Casimir Lindholm
Seasoned listed-company CEO who previously led Eltel and Lemminkäinen. Appointed Cargotec CEO in April 2023, succeeding Mika Vehviläinen.
- Caspar Coppetti
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of On Holding AG (On Running). Assumed Co-CEO role effective May 1, 2026, while continuing as Executive Co-Chairman.
- CASUN Leadership
Leadership of CASUN Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd., a Chinese AGV manufacturer founded in 2007 in Shenzhen, specializing in automated guided vehicles and autonomou...
- Caterina Lamuta
Caterina Lamuta is the Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow in Engineering and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. Sh...
- Catherine Côté
Vice President, Chief of Staff and Head of Office of the CEO at onsemi.
- Catherine Hunt Ryan
President of Bechtel's Manufacturing & Technology business unit.
- Catherine Mekler
Chief Operating Officer of Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework provider for autonomous systems. Oversees operations, human resources, IT...
- Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO of ARK Invest; published influential research projecting humanoid robots as a $24T+ market opportunity by 2050
- 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.
- CC Lin
Inaugural Rotating Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), serving approximately 2024 to early 2025. Head of Foxconn's E Business Group...
- Cecile Schmollgruber
Co-founded Stereolabs in 2010, building the ZED stereo camera platform.
- Cecilia Laschi
Director of the NUS Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC). Professor at NUS Mechanical Engineering.
- Cédric Duclos
CEO of Saft (TotalEnergies subsidiary). Leads battery manufacturer supplying aerospace, defense, and humanoid robotics markets.
- Cedric Jeanty
Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.
- Cedrik Neike
CEO of Siemens Digital Industries. Member of the Managing Board.
- Çetin Meriçli
Co-founder and CEO of Locomation, a Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded in 2018. A robotics pioneer with 25+ years of experience, formerly Spec...
- Chad England
CEO of C.R. England, leading the family-run refrigerated trucking and logistics company.
- Chad G. Rose
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and director of the Wearable and Bio-Robotics (WeBR) Lab. Research focuses on robotics, physi...
- Chad Glover
Vice President and General Manager of Pharmacy Automation at BD, overseeing the BD Rowa product line and strategic partnerships including the Henry Ford Health ...
- Chad McCoy
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Firestorm Labs.
- Chad Rigetti
Physicist and founder of Rigetti Computing (2013), a Berkeley-based full-stack quantum computing company using superconducting qubits. He holds a PhD in applied...
- Chad Ulven
University Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NDSU. 2025 NAI Class of Fellows. Leads robotics and automation research.
- Chamath Palihapitiya
Founder of Social Capital. SPAC pioneer.
- Chan U-Gene
Director at Singapore's [National Robotics Programme (NRP)](https://nrp.gov.sg), overseeing industry partnerships, a translation fund, and international ecosyst...
- Chandra Prakash
Co-founder of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform based in Gurugram. Co-founded the company in...
- 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.
- Chang Liu
Founder and CEO of Extend Robotics, a VR-based teleoperation robotics company.
- Chao Cao
Co-founder and CEO of [Sancho Robotics](/companies/sancho-robotics), building a robotic workforce for advanced manufacturing. Previously a research scientist at...
- Chao Jiang
Associate Professor at University of Wyoming. Research in autonomous robots, human-robot interaction, healthcare robotics, and robotic learning.
- Charles Avnet
Founder of Avnet.
- 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.
- Charles Emerson
Founder of Emerson Electric (1890).
- Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown
Co-founder of Brown Boveri & Cie (later ABB), pioneering electrical engineering.
- Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown
Co-founder of ABB (Brown Boveri and Cie).
- Charles F. O'Reilly
Co-founder of O'Reilly Auto Parts. He co-founded the company with his son Charles H. 'Chub' O'Reilly on December 2, 1957, in Springfield, Missouri, at age 72, a...
- Charles Geschke
Co-founder of Adobe Inc. (founded 1982). Co-developed the PostScript page description language with John Warnock.
- Charles H. O'Reilly
Co-founder of O'Reilly Auto Parts. Known as 'Chub' O'Reilly, he co-founded the company with his father Charles F. O'Reilly on December 2, 1957, in Springfield, ...
- Charles Koch
American businessman, engineer, and philanthropist; chairman and co-CEO of [Koch, Inc.](/companies/koch-industries) since 1967, succeeding his father [Fred C. K...
- Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
Chancellor of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Charles Lewis Tiffany
American jeweler and businessman (1812-1902) who founded Tiffany & Co. in 1837 in New York City. Born in Killingly, Connecticut. Created the country first retai...
- Charles Ng
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Primech AI, leading deployment operations for the Hytron cleaning robot across Singapore.
- Charles R Schwab
Founder of Charles Schwab Corporation.
- Charles Ranlett Flint
Founder of IBM.
- Charles Ranlett Flint
Founder of IBM (1911 merger).
- Charles Rasp
Founder of BHP Group (Broken Hill Proprietary).
- Charles Wang
Co-founder and COO of Standard Robots (since 2016). Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus.
- Charles Way
Charles Way is the owner and developer of 4AM Development LLC, a data center development company pursuing projects including a proposed data center in Statesbor...
- Charles-Antoine Beyney
Co-founder of BSO and CEO of DataOne. Previously founded Etix Everywhere (sold to Vantage in 2020). Has 15 years of experience leading 27+ data center construct...
- Charles-Antoine Beyney
CEO and Founder of DataOne Data Centers.
- Charles-Antoine Beyney
CEO and Founder of DataOne USA.
- 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.
- Charlie Kawwas
Executive at Broadcom, leading the semiconductor and networking chip business divisions.
- Charlie Kemp
Co-founder of Hello Robot and Georgia Tech professor; researcher in assistive robotics and healthcare robots
- Charlie Wu
Founder and CEO of Orchard Robotics, a San Francisco-based AgTech startup building camera-and-AI systems for precision fruit farming. Inspired by his grandparen...
- Chase Coleman
Founder of Tiger Global Management. 15 robotics/physical AI participations including Nothing Technology, Mind Robotics.
- Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder and CEO of Crusoe.
- Chase Lochmiller
CEO of Crusoe Energy.
- Chase Lochmiller
CEO of Crusoe Energy Systems.
- Chase Lochmiller
CEO of Crusoe (Stargate).
- Chelsea Finn
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and assistant professor at Stanford; previously at Google Brain. PhD from UC Berkeley.
- Chelsea Stoner
General Partner at Battery Ventures. Industrial tech.
- Chen Jiayu (陈嘉宇)
Chief Scientist of Infiforce. Leads the Embodied Intelligence Research Institute at Shenzhen Bay Science and Technology Innovation Park. Research spans world mo...
- Chen Nanxiang
Chairman and Acting CEO of Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC), China's leading 3D NAND flash memory maker. Previously Co-President of Tsinghua Unigroup an...
- Chen Rosen
Co-founder and CTO of AIR, responsible for the technical architecture of the AIR ONE eVTOL platform.
- Chen Shikai
CEO of SLAMTEC, a Chinese robotics company providing SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) solutions for autonomous robots.
- Chen Tianshi
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon). Earned a PhD in computer science from USTC by age 24 alongside his brother Chen ...
- Chen Tongqing
Chief Architect of TARS Robotics. PhD from Tsinghua University, Chief Scientist for major national projects, and former Head of Huawei's ADS Intelligent Navigat...
- Chen Weide
Fortune Capital. Chinese tech VC.
- Chen Wenjian
Chairman of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) since March 2025.
- Chen Xiaobo
Founder and CEO of Shihang Intelligent (SEAHI Robotics). Graduated from Harbin Engineering University with 18 years in marine robotics. Named Young Scientist fo...
- Chen Xiaobo
Founder and CEO of SEAHI Robotics. Graduate of Harbin Engineering University with 18+ years in marine robotics. Youngest recipient of the First Prize in Nationa...
- Chen Xueli
Executive at Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer, a Chinese medical device company.
- Chen Yanshun
Chairman of BOE Technology Group since 2019. Led the company's transition from display industry leader to IoT innovation company, with revenue growing from RMB ...
- Chen Yilun
Founder & CEO of TARS Robotics. Former CTO of Autonomous Driving (ADS) at Huawei, Chief Computer Vision Engineer at DJI, and Chief Scientist of Intelligent Robo...
- Chen Yunji
Co-founder of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon). Researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Earned a PhD in ...
- 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.
- Cheng Feng
Co-founder and CEO of NetPosa Technologies.
- Cheng Feng
Co-founder of NetPosa Technologies, an AI and IoT company.
- Cheng Peng
CEO of WuBa Intelligent Tech.
- Cheng Wei
Chinese businessman and founder, chairman, and CEO of DiDi (DiDi Chuxing), a mobile transportation platform with global operations. Born May 19, 1983 in Shangra...
- Cheng Wei
CEO of Tianma Microelectronics.
- Cheng Yi
Co-founder of Zerith Robotics. Former member of Tsinghua University AI and Robot Lab core team who launched the humanoid robotics startup in January 2025.
- Cheon Hong-seok
Co-CEO and Co-founder of Twinny. KAIST electrical engineering Ph.D. specializing in autonomous driving robotics. Leads technology and engineering at Twinny.
- Cheon Yeong-seok
Co-CEO and Co-founder of Twinny. Business administration background with 8 years at Korea SMEs and Startups Agency. Leads business management and administration...
- Cheong Jin Xi
Founder and CEO of Aonic, a Malaysian drone technology company he established in 2016. A former DJI distributor, Cheong built Aonic into a manufacturer of Made-...
- Chester Rodney England
Founder of C.R. England (1920), built it into one of the largest refrigerated trucking companies in the United States.
- Chi Tsang
CEO and Director of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), appointed November 2025. CFA charterholder and Wall Street veteran with 25+ years in venture ca...
- Chi Xu
Founder and CEO of XREAL (formerly Nreal), a Beijing-based consumer AR glasses company. Former NVIDIA software engineer who founded XREAL in 2017 and led develo...
- Chia-Feng Chang
President of Quanta Storage Inc.
- Chiara Manfletti
Dual Italian-German aerospace engineer and CEO of [Neuraspace](/companies/neuraspace), developing AI-driven space traffic management and space domain awareness ...
- Chinmay Patel
Aerospace engineer and flight test director; CTO and co-founder of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Deep expertise across uncrewed systems, piloted aircraft, ...
- Chinn Lim
Co-founder and CEO of dConstruct Technologies. 30+ years of experience in software and product implementation, previously leading GovTech Singapore's Smart Nati...
- 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.
- Choi Soo-yeon
CEO of Naver. NAVER D2SF invests in Sorcerics.
- Choi Yeon-Soo
Chief Financial Officer at Holiday Robotics.
- Chong Jiayi
CTO of dConstruct Technologies. Former Pixar R&D Technical Director who developed the core Graphics Simulation Stack for films like WALL-E and Toy Story 3. SIGG...
- Chongyang Wang
MIT graduate with 10+ years of operational experience, responsible for turning research into shipping product at Dexmate.
- Chris Baker
Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building the Terafab automated solar panel construction platform. Founded in 2019 in Berkeley, California.
- Chris Bohn
President of Tektronix since January 2023. U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Kellogg MBA veteran who spent 15+ years in global roles at Fluke and Tektronix (i...
- 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 Ciriello
CEO of Vantis, a technology company developing autonomous drone systems.
- Chris Crosby
CEO of Compass Datacenters.
- Chris Dixon
Founder and managing partner of a16z crypto, the dedicated crypto and blockchain investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz, which he founded in 2018. General Partne...
- Chris Feng
Co-founder and CEO of [Axis Robotics](/companies/axis-robotics), a Physical AI Data Engine company building training-data infrastructure for robots. Previously ...
- Chris Franzwa
Co-founder of Verge Aero, the Philadelphia-based drone-light-show technology company.
- Chris Given
Director and State CIO of the California Department of Technology, appointed 2026. Succeeds Liana Bailey-Crimmins.
- Chris Hardin
CEO of Critical Data House.
- Chris Hodric
Executive at LG Energy Solution.
- Chris Jensen
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Leads human resources and talent strategy.
- Chris Keffer
President and CEO of STIHL Inc since August 2023. Succeeded Terry Horan. Oversees iMOW robotic mower line.
- Chris Kemp
Co-founder of Astra Space.
- Chris Kempczinski
President, Chairman and CEO of McDonald's Corporation.
- Chris Monroe
American physicist (b. 1965) and Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics at Duke University. While a postdoc in David Wineland's ...
- Chris Moran
Head of Lockheed Martin Ventures. Defense tech.
- Chris Pearson
CEO of Agile Space Industries, a Durango, Colorado-based space propulsion company manufacturing 3D-printed thrusters for commercial, civil, and national securit...
- Chris Pinkham
Co-creator of Amazon EC2 and founding leader of AWS.
- Chris Power
Founder and CEO of [Hadrian Automation](/companies/hadrian-automation), the Torrance-based company building highly automated, software-driven factories for prec...
- Chris Rogers
CEO of Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) since August 2025. Previously Chief Business Officer at Instacart. Succeeded Fidji Simo who departed to lead product and busin...
- Chris Rogers
Industrial designer and robotics entrepreneur who founded InspectorBots in 2008 after being laid off from a Boulder design firm. Studied photography and industr...
- Chris Shaw
Co-founder of Advanced Navigation. Founded the Sydney-based AI navigation company in 2011 with Xavier Orr.
- Chris Shelton
Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer and President of AES Next at [AES Corporation](/companies/aes-corporation). Leads the team developing new solutions...
- 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 Ullrich
Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Cognixion. Leads technical development of the Axon-R BCI platform. Serves as principal investigator for Cognixion's c...
- Chris Van Pelt
Co-founder & Distinguished Engineer at Weights & Biases. Also co-founded Figure Eight with Lukas Biewald.
- Chris Walti
Former lead of the Tesla team that became Optimus (departed 2022); co-founded and is CEO of warehouse-automation company Mytra.
- Chris Winfrey
President and CEO of Charter Communications (Spectrum), a leading broadband connectivity company.
- Chris Yu
President of Also. Former Rivian VP of future programs; previously CPTO at Specialized (bike maker). Leads Also's product development.
- 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 Bruch
President and CEO of Siemens Energy AG.
- Christian Fischer
Chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since July 1, 2026. Shareholder of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG since January 1, 2022. Responsible...
- Christian Gabrielsen
CEO of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics), the Norwegian underwater drone company based in Trondheim. Led Blueye's major international contract to su...
- Christian Hillabrant
President and CEO of Crown Castle.
- Christian Hubicki
Associate Professor at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, director of the Optimal Robotics Lab. Research in bipedal locomotion and humanoid robotics. Also appeare...
- Christian Klein
CEO of SAP SE since 2019. Leads SAP's enterprise AI and cloud strategy, including Business AI, SAP Business Data Cloud, and embodied AI initiatives.
- Christian Kötz
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Board of Continental AG since January 1, 2026. Joined Continental in 1996; has held various roles in the t...
- 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...
- Christian Michael Schibsted
Norwegian printer and publisher (1812-1878) who founded Schibsted Forlag in 1839 in Christiania (now Oslo). Also established Aftenposten, one of Norway largest ...
- Christian Ott
Christian Ott is a senior researcher at DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, leading research on humanoid walking robotics. He received the ERC Consolida...
- Christian Reuter
Member of the Management Board of Harmonic Drive SE, responsible for production strategy and optimisation.
- Christian Senger
CEO of Volkswagen Autonomous Mobility, oversees autonomous driving development for the VW Group including MOIA.
- Christian Tucci
Christian Tucci is the CTO of Liftya, an Amsterdam-based medtech company developing a personalized shoulder-rehabilitation brace built around the patented CXD s...
- Christian Weedbrook
Founder and CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, established in 2016. Led the company from a Toronto startup through its 2026 IPO on Nasdaq/TSX (XNDU), becoming ...
- Christian Zamiela
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University. Received an NVIDIA Academic Grant for research in sim-to-real deep reinforcement...
- Christine Spiten
Norwegian engineer, sailing champion, and co-founder of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015), the Trondheim-based underwater drone company. M.Sc...
- Christoph Lassner
Co-founder of World Labs. Pioneer in graphics, reconstruction, and data; creator of Pulsar which predated gaussian splatting. Stepped away from active role in e...
- Christoph Schell
CEO and Chairman of KUKA AG. Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Intel and President of HP.
- Christoph Schwaiger
CEO of ALDI SUD.
- Christoph Schwaiger
CEO of ALDI SÜD Holding.
- Christoph Schweizer
Founder of Schweizer Electronic AG in 1849 in Schramberg, Germany, initially producing clock faces. The company expanded into printed circuit boards in 1958, wa...
- Christoph Zehentner
Co-founder of incubed IT, an Austrian AMR software company acquired by Verizon in February 2021. TU Graz graduate and member of the university's RoboCup team, o...
- Christophe Fouquet
French engineer and business executive; President & CEO of ASML Holding since April 25, 2024. Joined ASML in 2008 in marketing and product management; appointed...
- 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 Cacioppo
Co-founder and CTO of 6 River Systems, leading technical strategy for warehouse fulfillment robots.
- Christopher D. Pappas
Founder and CEO of CDP Consulting LLC, and past President and CEO of Trinseo (2010-2019). Led Trinseo (formerly Styron) through its Bain Capital spin-off from D...
- Christopher Eisgruber
President of Princeton University.
- Christopher J. Brady
Vice President and President, Mission Systems at General Dynamics.
- Christopher J. Nassetta
President and CEO of Hilton Worldwide.
- Christopher Kastner
President and CEO of HII since March 2022, America's largest military shipbuilder.
- Christopher Kubasik
American businessman; former Chairman & CEO of L3Harris Technologies (2021–2026). Joined L3 Technologies in 2015, became president of L3 in 2018, then president...
- Christopher Prentice
CEO of Harmonic Bionics.
- Christopher Reardon
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Denver, founded the ARISE Lab (Autonomous Robotics and Interactive Systems Experimental Laboratory)...
- Christopher Robertson
Director, CSU Drone Center. UAS operations, public safety, search & rescue.
- Christopher T. Calio
Chairman and CEO of RTX Corporation.
- Christopher T. Calio
Chairman and CEO of RTX Corporation. Became Chairman April 2025, CEO since May 2024.
- Christopher Zhou
Founder and CEO of Shenzhen Camsense Technologies. Tsinghua University graduate.
- Chuck Fawcett
President and CEO of Animax Designs.
- Chuck Hull
Co-founder and CTO of 3D Systems. Inventor of stereolithography (SLA), the first 3D printing technology, patented in 1986 (US 4,575,330). Coined the term "stere...
- Chuck McBride
Founder and CEO of Atmosphere Data Centers.
- Chuck Robbins
American businessman, Chair and CEO of Cisco Systems since July 2015 (CEO) and December 2017 (Chair). Born in Grayson, Georgia, he joined Cisco in 1997 after ea...
- Chung Ju-yung
Founder of Hyundai Motor Group.
- Chung Ki-sun
CEO of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, a major Korean shipbuilder.
- Ciaran Dowds
Co-founder and CTO of Oshen. Electrical engineer who co-founded Oshen with Anahita Laverack in April 2022. Leads the technical development of the C-Star autonom...
- Cindy L. Bethel
Billie J. Ball Endowed Professor in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University. Director of the Social, T...
- Claire Delaunay
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Otto (2016), the self-driving truck startup. Previously robotics program lead at Google. After Otto's acquisition by Uber, s...
- Clare Grey
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of [Nyobolt](/companies/nyobolt), a Cambridge-based battery technology company spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2019. S...
- Claude Hathaway
Founder of Allied Motion Technologies (Hathaway Instruments).
- Claudio Domenicali
Chief Executive Officer of Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., the iconic Italian motorcycle manufacturer owned by the Audi Group. Born November 3, 1965, Domenicali gr...
- Claudio Semplicini
MD, PhD in Medical, Clinical and Experimental Sciences (Neuroscience) from University of Padua (2017). Neurologist with background in neuromuscular diseases, ne...
- Claus Risager
Former CEO of Blue Ocean Robotics and Chairman of the Board of UVD Robots during the COVID-19 pandemic expansion.
- Claus Risager
Co-founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Robotics, the Danish 'Robot Venture Factory' that acquired the Beam telepresence robot business from Suitable Technologies in A...
- Clayton Tino
President & COO of Beep. PhD from Georgia Tech in systems design and optimization (aerospace engineering). Previously CTO of Beep, leading autonomous mobility p...
- Clemens Kürten
Co-founder and CEO of Twentyfour Industries, a Munich-based drone manufacturing company.
- Clement Delangue
French entrepreneur; co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face (founded 2016 in New York City). Began his career at Moodstocks (acquired by Google) before teaming up w...
- Cleve Moler
Co-founder and Chief Mathematician of [MathWorks](/companies/mathworks-robotics). Created the original MATLAB at the University of New Mexico in the 1970s as a ...
- Clif Parker
CEO of Restore Robotics; leads the company's FDA-cleared da Vinci Xi robotic instrument remanufacturing program. Also CEO of REACH3D.
- Clifton Pemble
CEO of Garmin, leading the GPS and wearable technology company.
- Clint Brauer
Third-generation farmer and technologist who founded Greenfield Robotics to build AI-powered weed-cutting robots that eliminate herbicide use.
- Colin Angle
Co-founded iRobot in 1990 after working at MIT AI Laboratory. Served as CEO for 33 years until 2024.
- Colin Webb
Founder and CEO of [Avatar Robotics](/companies/avatar-robotics), a San Francisco startup building teleoperated humanoid robots for warehouse labor. MIT graduat...
- Colm O'Brien
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ulysses, the San Francisco-based maritime robotics company building autonomous surface and underwater vehicles for oce...
- 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.
- Connor Teskey
CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with over 1 trillion dollars in AUM.
- 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...
- Conrad Hilton
Founder of Hilton Hotels.
- Corey Lynch
Director of AI at Figure AI; previously a research scientist in Google Brain robotics.
- Corey Welp
Co-founder of 1547 Critical Systems Realty.
- Corie Barry
Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc. since June 2019. The second-longest tenured CEO in Best Buy's history after founder Dick Schulze. Previously serve...
- Cornelia Weinzierl
Cornelia Weinzierl is a Co-founder of Tau Robotics. She studied Computer Science at Stanford University and was previously founder of Melon.
- 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...
- Cortney Knoll
President and CEO of PeritasAI, a perioperative intelligence and orchestration company bringing agentic AI and humanoid robotics into healthcare workflows. Knol...
- Cory Kwarta
President and CEO of Swisslog Healthcare. Leads the healthcare automation division including pharmacy automation and transport systems.
- Craig Albert
President and COO of Bechtel Corporation. Co-signed the October 2025 letter to colleagues about the Port Arthur LNG incident findings.
- 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.
- Craig Rupp
CEO of Sabanto, an agricultural robotics company developing autonomous tractor systems for farming.
- Crijn Bouman
Co-founder and CEO of Rocsys, leading the company's mission to enable autonomous mobility through hands-free charging infrastructure.
- Crispin Simon
CEO of Rex Bionics from 2014. Led the company through AIM listing, US market expansion with EnableMe, and the US Army collaboration for acute care use of REX.
- Cristen Kogl
Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Zebra Technologies. Oversees legal affairs, compliance, and governance, supporting Zebra's inte...
- 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...
- Cristina Gherasim
Brizan Ventures. European VC.
- Cruse Moss
First president of AM General.
- Cullen Davis
Co-founder of Crusoe Energy.
- Curtis Garner
Co-founder of Verdant Robotics, bringing deep farming experience to the precision spray-application ag-robotics company.
- Cynthia Breazeal
Founder of Jibo.
- Cyrill Hamon
Co-founder of PAZZI (originally EKIM) in 2013. Co-created the autonomous robotic pizza kitchen technology.
- Cyrille Kabbara
Co-founder and CEO of Shark Robotics, the French maker of the Colossus firefighting and defense ground robot.
- D.J. Lee
Professor, ECE. Director, Robotic Vision Lab (est. 2004). AI/ML for robotic vision, self-driving cars.
- D'Milo Hallerberg
President and CEO of Arcturus UAV at the time of its acquisition by AeroVironment in 2021.
- Da Fang
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of QCraft. Leads the company's research on world models, reinforcement learning, and physical AI.
- Da Liu (刘达)
Founder and CEO of [Remebot](/companies/remebot) (Beijing Bohuiweikang Technology), a Chinese medical robotics company he established in August 2010 to commerci...
- Dagi Ben-Noon
Nano Dimension co-founder who later became CEO of Inspira.
- Dai Wanhui
Founder of Hangmo Technology (IRMO), a Beijing-based robotics startup spun out from the Robotics Institute of Beihang University. Holds a Master's degree from t...
- Daisuke Tanaka
COO of Turing. University of Tokyo economics graduate. Former Google evangelist, ex-Medley Executive Officer. Joined Turing as Director and COO in January 2023.
- Damen Cheung
Head of Software and Avionics at [MightyFly](/companies/mightyfly), developing autonomous hybrid eVTOL cargo aircraft. Holds a Master's degree in Electrical and...
- 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 Allen
CFO of Belltown Power, overseeing the company's financial operations.
- Dan Dodge
Co-founder of QNX.
- Dan England
Executive at C.R. England, a major American refrigerated trucking company. Part of the England family leadership.
- Dan Flippo
Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University. Patrick Wilburn Keystone Research Scholar. Research focuses on automa...
- Dan Gobel
Former president of [BAE Systems Electronic Systems](/companies/bae-systems-electronics) sector (2012–2014), succeeding Tom Arseneault. Previously VP and deputy...
- Dan Gwak
Head of Point72 Ventures. AI/deep tech.
- Dan Irvin
Dan Irvin founded 123Net in 1995 and served as its CEO before stepping down; he was succeeded by Ken Fitzpatrick as President & CEO and remains on the Board of ...
- 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 Komorny
Co-founder and CTO of [Earendil Robotics](/companies/earendil-robotics), a Y Combinator (S26) counter-UAS defense company. Has a decade of experience in drones ...
- Dan Magy
Co-founder and CEO of Firestorm Labs. Multi-time defense founder who previously founded Citadel Defense (acquired by Blue Halo) and co-founded Elevate Dynamics.
- 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 Parks
Co-founder and COO of inVia Robotics (founded 2015). Robotics expert with 17 years of experience. Oversees manufacturing, deployment and remote monitoring of in...
- Dan Patt
Co-founder and former CEO of Vecna Robotics (2018–2020), the Waltham, MA warehouse-automation spin-off from Vecna Technologies. Previously served as deputy dire...
- Dan Rogers
CEO of Asana since July 21 2025. Formerly of LaunchDarkly ServiceNow and Rubrik. Succeeded co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.
- Dan Rosskamm
President and CEO of Big Joe Forklifts.
- Dan Shechtman
Founder of Mechanical Chef, an automated cooking startup. Nobel laureate in Chemistry for quasicrystals.
- Dan Siroker
Founder of Limitless, a technology company; previously co-founder of Optimizely, bringing software optimization expertise.
- Dan Smoot
President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar Technologies (Maxar Intelligence) since November 2023.
- Dan Sorin
Co-founder of Realtime Robotics. Professor at Duke University who co-founded the company with George Konidaris to commercialize their motion planning processor ...
- Dan Sundheim
Founder of D1 Capital. Multi-strategy hedge fund.
- Dan Yingst
Former CEO of RedZone Robotics (appointed 2016), previously COO. Prior to RedZone, VP of Finance at Siemens Water Technologies for 10 years.
- Dana Adams
President of North America at Vantage Data Centers, overseeing market development, sales, construction and operations across the U.S. and Canada. Previously COO...
- Dana Anderson
Chief Science Officer & Founder of [Infleqtion](/companies/infleqtion) (formerly ColdQuanta). Professor at JILA and University of Colorado Boulder. Pioneer in n...
- Dana Kulic
Director of Monash Robotics and ARC Future Fellow. Professor leading robotics research in human-robot interaction, motion learning, and wearable robotics at Mon...
- Dane A. Miller
Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.
- Danica Kragic
Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology; leading researcher in robot manipulation, computer vision, and human-robot interaction; IEEE Fellow
- 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 Bock
Co-Founder, CTO, and Managing Director of Morpheus Space, a German company developing modular electric propulsion systems for satellite mobility. Bock co-founde...
- Daniel Breum
CEO and CCO of TinyMobileRobots, a Danish company developing line marking and surveying robots. Formerly at Vertiv and Cobham.
- Daniel Buchmueller
Co-founder of Amazon Prime Air.
- Daniel Chu
Chief Product Officer of Apptronik; previously Chief Product Officer at Waymo (first autonomous ride-hailing launch) and at 23andMe and Google.
- Daniel D. Lee
Korean-American robotics and AI researcher who served as Executive Vice President of Samsung Research and Head of Global AI Centers at [Samsung Electronics](/co...
- Daniel Diermeier
Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, the chief executive officer of the university. Ph.D. in political science.
- Daniel Ek
Chairman of the board of Helsing (via his investment vehicle Prima Materia, which led major rounds); co-founder and CEO of Spotify.
- 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 Glasner
Stonebridge Ventures.
- Daniel Glozman
Co-founder and CEO of ForSight Robotics. Has specialized in robotics for medical applications for over 20 years, previously heading R&D at Medtronic Ventor Tech...
- 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 Lereya
Chief Product and Technology Officer of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2023. Joined monday.com in 2016 and previously served as Vice President of R&D and Produ...
- 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 Rabbitt
Executive at Ball Corporation, leading packaging manufacturing operations.
- Daniel Rabinovich
Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Executive Vice President of [Mercado Libre](/companies/mercado-libre), Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech platform...
- Daniel Szafir
Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, directs the robotics lab. Research focus on making robots effective teammates for people.
- 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...
- Daniel Urquhart
Secretary and CIO of Alabama OIT.
- Daniel Utin
Chief Software Architect at Nia Therapeutics. Serial entrepreneur with deep technical expertise. Previously co-founded Cambridge Interactive Development Corpora...
- Daniël Van Nieuwenhove
Co-founder of Optrima (VUB spin-off) and current President of Sony Depthsensing Solutions. Holds a PhD in engineering sciences from VUB. Led the development of ...
- Daniel Zhang
Former CEO Alibaba. Alibaba invests in Unitree, RobotEra.
- Daniela Amodei
Former VP of Operations at OpenAI. Co-founded Anthropic with her brother Dario.
- Daniele Pucci
Daniele Pucci is the CEO and Co-founder of Generative Bionics. He was previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he led the hum...
- Daniele Ramirez
Co-founder & COO of Agade. Listed as a founder on Crunchbase and the Agade about page.
- Daniil Shuleyko
CEO of Yango Group.
- Danny Deep
President of General Dynamics since December 2025; previously EVP Global Operations, EVP Combat Systems, and president of General Dynamics Land Systems. With th...
- Danny Goodman
CEO of Swarm Aero, an aerospace company developing autonomous drone swarm technology for industrial applications.
- Daphne Koller
Co-founder of Coursera.
- Dar Sleeper
VP of Growth at 1X Technologies; previously a product manager at Tesla (Cybertruck launch).
- Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO of Uber. Uber strategic has 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Nuro, Zoox partnership.
- Dario Amodei
AI safety researcher; former VP of Research at OpenAI. Co-founded Anthropic in 2021.
- Darius Wilke
VP Commercial at Hexagon Robotics, leading commercial operations for the AEON humanoid platform.
- Darren Wright
Chief Strategy Officer; 16 years at Swift as VP Strategy; BYU master's accounting.
- Darsi Zhang
Darsi Zhang co-founded SureStar in 2005 and brings over 18 years of experience in LiDAR R&D. Previously worked at K&S, a leading semiconductor packaging and ele...
- Daryl Lim
Co-founder and CEO of Amity Robotics, a Thai startup building industrial robots. Raised M Seed led by East Ventures.
- Daudi Barnes
Founder of Agile Space Industries, establishing the company in 2009 as Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT) in Durango, Colorado. Began his career as a propul...
- Dave Coleman
Founder and Chief Product Officer of [PickNik Robotics](/companies/picknik-robotics), a Boulder, Colorado-based company building the MoveIt Pro Robotics Platfor...
- 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 DeWalt
Founder, Managing Director, and CEO of [NightDragon](/companies/nightdragon), a venture capital and advisory firm focused on cybersecurity, safety, security, an...
- Dave Doherty
CEO of Digi-Key Electronics.
- Dave Evans
Co-founder and CEO of Fictiv, democratizing manufacturing and supply chain.
- Dave Fick
Co-founder of Mythic AI, served as CTO and later CEO. Pioneered analog matrix processor technology.
- Dave Gallagher
Executive at NASA JPL, involved in space mission leadership and robotics programs.
- Dave Goddard
Executive Vice President of Hexagon Mining segment since Oct 2024; previously Acting President and Chief Product Officer. 30 years mining technology experience.
- Dave Grant
CEO of PickNik Robotics since August 2024, succeeding founder Dave Coleman who transitioned to CPO. Joined PickNik as Chief Revenue Officer in Fall 2023, bringi...
- Dave Grewell
Dean of NIU's College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET), leading the college's research and education programs in engineering, manufacturing, and...
- Dave Johnson
Chief Product Officer at Walden Robotics. Previously at Draper Labs and Dexai Robotics in Cambridge (acquired by Sony).
- Dave Packard
Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
- Dave Packard
Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HPE origins).
- Dave Paddock
President of General Dynamics Land Systems, a subsidiary of General Dynamics focused on ground combat vehicles and autonomous systems.
- 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...
- Dave Rogers
Founder and CEO of AmpZ Champion Data Center Holdings.
- Dave Rollinson
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of [HEBI Robotics](/companies/hebi-robotics), a Pittsburgh robotics company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Bio...
- Dave Schaeffer
Founder and CEO of Cogent Communications.
- Dave Scott
President of Oppidan Connect Data Centers, a data center development company.
- David A Jones
Co-founder of Humana.
- David Alexander
President of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the subsidiary that manufactures the MQ-9 Reaper and other remotely piloted aircraft systems.
- David Allemann
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of On Holding AG (On Running). Assumed Co-CEO role effective May 1, 2026, while continuing as Executive Co-Chairman.
- David Benhaim
CTO and co-founder of Markforged, developing the technology behind the first carbon fiber and metal 3D printers.
- David Berry
CEO of Cloverleaf Infrastructure.
- David Buckley
Principal and co-founder of Buckley Bros Holdings LLC, a multifamily office. Co-founded with James R Buckley. Involved in data center development projects in Ok...
- David Burritt
President & CEO of United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X). Former Chief Financial Officer of Caterpillar Inc., where he served as Executive Vice President an...
- David Cann
Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics, developing the Double 3 telepresence robot. Y Combinator graduate.
- David Carbon
Vice President & General Manager of Amazon Prime Air, leading Amazon's autonomous drone delivery program and its expansion across U.S. and international markets...
- David Cavaillolès
CEO of [Arianespace](/companies/arianespace) since January 2025 and member of the ArianeGroup Executive Committee. Succeeded Stéphane Israël (CEO since 2013). B...
- David Cheng Qian
Vice Chairman of ECOVACS Group and CEO of ECOVACS Robotics, driving premiumization and global expansion.
- David Cook
President of Iowa State University.
- David Cranor
Co-founder of Formlabs, the 3D-printing company he started in 2011 with Maxim Lobovsky and Natan Linder while all three were students in MIT Media Lab's "How to...
- David Cummings
Co-founder of Greenzie; an Atlanta serial entrepreneur best known for founding marketing-automation company Pardot and the Atlanta Ventures studio.
- David Doyle
President and CEO of Heidenhain Corporation.
- David Fan
Doctoral graduate in robotics from Georgia Tech who served as a researcher in NASA JPL's aerial mobility group under Ali Agha. Was chief technologist for Team C...
- David Fischel
Chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis, leading the magnetic navigation surgical robotics company through Genesis RMN system launches and global regulatory approvals.
- David Fuller
Co-founder and CEO of Artificial Inc, a lab automation software company founded in 2018 in Palo Alto. Over 25 years in industrial and service robotics. Former C...
- David Fulton
Chief Executive Officer of Fieldwork Robotics. Track record in scaling companies and building influential networks.
- David Fulton
CEO of Fieldwork Robotics.
- David Godwin
Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Slingshot Aerospace, an Austin, Texas-based space intelligence and space situational awareness company he co-founded in 201...
- David Golden
Co-founder of Standard Bots.
- David Graham
Co-founder and CEO of Tortoise a company developing autonomous robots for retail and last-mile delivery.
- 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
American roboticist; founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013), creator of human-like social robots with realistic facial expressions, most notably Soph...
- David Henri
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Exotrail. Previously served as CEO from the company's founding until October 2021, when he transitioned to CPO to focus ...
- David Holló
Co-founder & CPO of Allonic. Leading product development for the 3D Tissue Braiding robotic manufacturing platform.
- David Howard
Group Leader of CSIRO Robotics.
- David Hsu
Founder and CEO of Retool, started the company in 2017 after studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford. YC W17 alumnus.
- David Huang
President, Thermal Solutions Division at [Boyd Corporation](/companies/boyd-corporation), responsible for all aspects of Boyd's Thermal business including strat...
- 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 Inggs
Co-founder and former CEO of [Rocos](/companies/rocos), a New Zealand-based robotics software company acquired by [DroneDeploy](https://www.dronedeploy.com) in ...
- David Jiang
Founder and CEO of VITURE. Previously spent time at Harvard and Google, where he was one of the first people to work on Google Glass.
- David Johnson
President and CEO of Positec Americas. 20+ years at Positec. Oversees WORX and Kress brands.
- David King
Co-founder and Executive Director of Denvr Dataworks, an AI cloud computing company.
- David L. Gitlin
Chairman and CEO of Carrier Global Corporation. Previously held leadership roles at United Technologies before its merger with Raytheon.
- Dávid Lakatos
Chief Product Officer at Formlabs since its founding, overseeing all product development across printers, materials, and software. A native of Hungary, he holds...
- 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 Lane
CEO of Beacon Data Centers.
- David Lauren
American businessman, vice chairman and chief innovation officer of Ralph Lauren Corporation. Son of founder Ralph Lauren, born 1971.
- David Liu
Co-founder and CEO of [Plus](/companies/plus), an AI-based virtual driver software company for factory-built autonomous trucks. He has over 20 years of experien...
- 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 Nicoll
CEO of SANY America.
- David O'Reilly
Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of O'Reilly Automotive. A member of the founding O'Reilly family, he joined the company full-time in 1972 and served as CEO...
- David P. Miller
Wilkonson Chair and Professor of Intelligent Systems in the School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and School of Computer Science at the University of Okl...
- Dávid Pelyva
Co-founder & CTO of Allonic. Leading the technical development of the 3D Tissue Braiding manufacturing platform.
- David Polák
Co-founder and Head of Sales at RoboTwin s.r.o. Manages distribution network and customer relationships across Europe and North America.
- David Qian
CEO of ECOVACS Robotics, driving premiumization and global expansion.
- David Qian
CEO of ECOVACS Robotics, driving premiumization and global expansion.
- David Quitman
Chief Executive Officer of B-Temia, a Canadian medical device company specializing in dermoskeleton technology for mobility enhancement. Previously served as CO...
- David Ram
David Ram is an Austrian entrepreneur, robotics engineer, and medical device designer, born April 29, 1979 in Kitzbuehel, Austria. He graduated from Graz Univer...
- David Razdolsky
Chief Financial Officer of RGo Robotics. Promoted to CFO after 1.5 years with the company.
- David Rivas
Chief Operating Officer of [Rigetti Computing](/companies/rigetti-computing), appointed in August 2026 to lead the newly created Systems Delivery organization o...
- David Shepard
CEO and founder of Cielo Digital Infrastructure, a data center infrastructure development company focused on power-secured sites for large-scale digital infrast...
- David Solomon
CEO of Goldman Sachs. 5 robotics/physical AI participations.
- David Steiner
76th Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service, appointed May 2025. Former CEO of Waste Management (12 years), board member of FedEx, Vulca...
- David Therrien
Chief Financial Officer of Square Robot, a Westborough, MA-based robotic tank-inspection company. Over 16 years of financial leadership across robotics, defence...
- 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.
- Davide Rota
Davide Rota is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Davide Scaramuzza
Director of the Robotics and Perception Group at University of Zurich.
- Davis Foster
Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously at spatial-computing company Occipital.
- Dayna Grayson
Founder of Construct Capital. Industrial automation.
- Dean F. Hougen
Lloyd & Joyce Austin Presidential Professor and Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. Director of the Robotics, Evolution, A...
- Dean Jones
CEO of StirlingX, a technology company focused on industrial automation and control systems.
- Dean Nelson
CEO of Cato Digital, a provider of low-cost low-carbon data center solutions. Founder of Infrastructure Masons.
- Deanna Lund
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Debo Hu
Co-founder and former CEO of Kepler Robotics (Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd.), founded in 2023 with Yang Hua. He oversaw business operations during the company...
- Deema Totah
Dr. Deema Totah is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa, and director of the Robotics and Assistive Devi...
- Deepak Jain
Founder and CEO of AiNET, an innovator in data center and IT services. Developer of large-scale AI infrastructure platforms.
- Deepak Pathak
Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. PhD from UC Berkeley.
- Deepak Sekar
Founder and CEO of Chowbotics (2014–2019), inventor with 125+ patents, creator of Sally the salad robot. Previously served as Director of Product Management at ...
- Deise Yumi Asami
Founder of [Maximo](/models/maximo) at [AES Corporation](/companies/aes-corporation), leading the development and incubation of the AI-enabled robotic platform ...
- Demetrios (Jim) Latisis
Demetrios (Jim) Latisis serves as COO of DGEB/910Telecom, a carrier-neutral telecom hotel in Denver's historic Gas & Electric Building, operated by DGEB Managem...
- Denis Garagić
CTO of Palladyne AI (formerly Sarcos). Leads AI and machine learning software development for robotic applications.
- Dennis Hong
Founding director of RoMeLa at UCLA (formerly Virginia Tech); creator of multiple humanoid robot platforms including CHARLI
- Dennis Jackson
Engineering Director (development fleet software) at Wayve; previously an embedded AV software lead at Cruise.
- Dennis Kim
CEO of RoboStar; leading South Korean industrial robot manufacturer expanding into humanoid applications
- Dennis Woodside
CEO and President of Freshworks, a customer engagement software company.
- Derckjan Kruit
Co-founder of Mendix, established in 2005 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Derek J. Leathers
Chairman and CEO of Werner Enterprises since 2016, with over 30 years in transportation and logistics. Joined Werner in 1999 after eight years at Schneider Nati...
- Derek King
Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team that commercialized AMRs for logistics.
- Derek Roos
Co-founder and former CEO of Mendix. Led the company through its acquisition by Siemens in 2018 for $730 million.
- Derik Pridmore
Co-founded Osaro in 2015 to build AI-powered robotic picking solutions for industrial automation.
- Derrick Morse
Founder and CEO of Rugged Robotics. Professional Engineer who founded the construction layout automation company after experiencing jobsite pain points firsthan...
- Detlef Schneider
Co-founder and managing director of TQ-Group (TQ-Systems), founded in 1994 in Seefeld, Bavaria. Grew the company from a two-person operation to ~2,200 employees...
- Devin Balkcom
Associate Professor of computer science at Dartmouth. Research in robotics and the physical world impact of computation.
- Devin Billings
Head of Core Platform at Humanoid AI. 22 years in EE, 15 years in robotics, ex-Boston Dynamics where he led electrical design for electric Atlas.
- Dhanush Radhakrishnan
Co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics. Building biomimetic musculoskeletal androids using synthetic muscles.
- Dhruva Rajendra
Co-founder and CEO of Deterrence. Previously co-founder of Latch (smart lock company). Building autonomous manufacturing systems for the defense industrial base...
- Diane Rose
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Diao Shijing
Former chairman and CEO of Iluvatar CoreX (appointed May 2021). Previously co-president of Tsinghua Unigroup. Taken away for investigation in July 2022 as part ...
- Dieter Fox
Senior Director of Robotics Research at NVIDIA; University of Washington professor; expert in robot perception and state estimation
- Dillon Zahler
Principal and Co-Founder of Colossus Data Center Advisors.
- 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.
- Dimitri de Vreeze
CEO of dsm-firmenich, a health and nutrition company.
- Dimitris Nikolaidis
Co-founder and COO of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous wind turbine inspection technology since 2016.
- Din Hadass
Co-CEO of Motorika Medical. Led the ORIGIN Polska strategic partnership for rehabilitation care in Poland. Oversaw the introduction of the Optimal-G Pro gait re...
- Dinesh Ramanathan
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy at onsemi.
- Ding Wenchao
Chief Scientist of TARS Robotics. Former Huawei "Genius Youth" recruit and researcher at the Robotics Institute of Fudan University, specializing in embodied in...
- Ding Yan
Co-CTO of LUMOS Robotics. AI PhD leading the company's AI research efforts.
- Dino Mavrookas
Co-founder and CEO of Saronic, the autonomous surface-vessel company; a former US Navy SEAL.
- Dino Otranto
CEO of Fortescue Metals Group, an Australian iron ore and green energy company.
- Dirk Hoke
German aerospace executive; CEO of Volocopter from September 2022 until late 2024, steering the eVTOL company through its Series D funding round and toward cert...
- Dirk Pöschl
Co-founder of German Bionic.
- Dirk Van de Put
Chair and CEO of Mondelez International.
- DMilo Hallerberg
CEO of Arcturus UAV.
- Dmitry Bakanov
General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities. Replaced Yury Borisov.
- 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...
- Dmitry Shevelenko
Co-founder and President of Tortoise, developing mobile remote-controlled robot stores.
- Dmitry Skorinko
Co-founder and CEO of Eliport, an autonomous last-mile delivery robot company.
- Dominic Audet
Co-founder of Moment Factory, a multimedia entertainment studio creating immersive lighting and projection installations.
- Dominic Jud
Robotic systems expert and CTO/Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics. Completed his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2014, then worked at the Autonomous S...
- Dominik Feiden
CEO and co-founder of Organifarms, developing the BERRY autonomous strawberry harvesting robot for greenhouse operations in Konstanz, Germany.
- Dominik Heinzelmann
Founder and CEO of hTRIUS GmbH, a German industrial exoskeleton developer based in Horb am Neckar in the Black Forest, which he founded in January 2020. The com...
- Dominique Giannoni
CEO of ECA Group, a French robotics company developing unmanned ground, naval, and aerial vehicles for defense and security.
- Dominykas Rinkevičius
Co-founder and Head of Engineering at PDKINEMATICS, joined in 2025 to lead product development.
- 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 ...
- Don Mathis
Pilot, Navy Flight Officer (Ret.), Cybersecurity Industry Veteran, Former Comcast Innovation Lead.
- Don Valentine
Founder of Sequoia Capital (1972). One of the generation of leaders who forged Silicon Valley. Born in New York in 1932, studied chemistry at Fordham University...
- Donald Baxter
Founder of Baxter International.
- Donald Gershman
Principal of Charter Development LLC, a real estate firm developing data center projects in Connecticut.
- Donald J. Leo
11th President of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), joining the university on June 1, 2026.
- Donde Plowman
Chancellor of University of Tennessee Knoxville.
- Dong Chen
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Mississippi State University (starting Fall 2024). Research interests in robotics...
- Dong Xin
Executive Director, Chairman and CEO of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd, the listed entity of China Unicom.
- Dongkun Lee
EVP Robotics Strategy at Samsung Research Robotics.
- 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...
- Dorin Baniel
Partner and Head of Israel/EMEA at NightDragon. Established the firm's first international office in Tel Aviv in 2023 and drives investments across cybersecurit...
- Doron Chen
Executive at Autobrains Technologies, bringing AI and machine learning expertise to autonomous driving perception systems.
- Dorsa Sadigh
Stanford professor and co-founder of Matician; expert in human-robot interaction, robot learning from human feedback
- Doug Britt
CEO of Boyd Corporation, a global thermal management and sealing solutions provider for electronics and aerospace.
- Doug Lambert
Co-founder and COO of Saronic; previously Head of Engineering at Liquid Robotics and VP Engineering at Terradepth.
- Doug Leone
Partner at Sequoia Capital since 1988; Managing Partner / Senior Steward from 1996 to 2022. Born in Genoa, Italy in 1957; immigrated to the United States at age...
- Doug McMillon
CEO of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer by revenue, with operations in retail, e-commerce, and logistics automation.
- Doug Ostrover
Co-CEO of Blue Owl Capital (NYSE: OWL). Co-founded Blue Owl and leads the firm alongside Marc Lipschultz.
- Doug Recker
Founder and CEO of Duos Edge AI, an edge AI infrastructure company.
- Douglas Davis
Executive Chairman and CEO of [VisionWave Holdings](/companies/visionwave), a public company (NASDAQ: VWAV) developing modular autonomous unmanned ground vehicl...
- Douglas Dayton
American retail executive (1924–2013); founder and first president of [Target](/companies/target), opening the first Target discount store in 1962 as a division...
- Douglas Fleit
Co-founder and CEO of PowerHouse Data Centers and American Real Estate Partners (AREP). Leading hyperscale data center development across the US with a 6 GW pip...
- Douglas Lefever
Group CEO of Advantest Corporation. Representative Director and Senior Executive Officer. Appointed Group CEO in April 2024.
- 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.
- Douglas Tate
Founder and CEO of Alpha Technologies, a West Virginia-based IT and data center company founded in 2000. Over 25 years of information technology and systems exp...
- 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 Bruno Lacerda
Co-Founder and CTO of Stateful Robotics. His research at the University of Oxford into probabilistic verification and decision-making under uncertainty underpin...
- Dr Ilana Wisby
Founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a UK-based superconducting quantum computing company spun out of the University of Oxford. Led OQC from its found...
- Dr Jordina Frances de Mas
Co-founder and COO of Milliray (YC W26). PhD in Computer Science (Automated Reasoning) from the University of St Andrews. Expertise in formal methods, mathemati...
- Dr Matthew Moore
Founder and CEO of Milliray (YC W26), developing millimeter-wave radar technology to detect and track small drones. Holds a PhD from the University of St Andrew...
- Dr Matthew Moore
Co-founder and CEO of Milliray (YC W26). PhD in Physics from the University of St Andrews, specializing in millimeter-wave radar for drone detection. Royal Acad...
- Dr Peter Leek
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of [Oxford Quantum Circuits](/companies/oxford-quantum-circuits). Pioneered the Coaxmon 3D superconducting quantum circuit ...
- Dr Thomas Doherty
Co-founder and CTO of Milliray (YC W26). DPhil from the University of Oxford in Atomic & Laser Physics. MPhys in Theoretical Physics from St Andrews. Royal Acad...
- Dr William Brooks
CTO of Skyfly Technologies. 30+ years in light aircraft development, has designed and certified over 2,000 aircraft currently in service.
- 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. Alwin Mahler
CEO of Franka Emika (now Franka Robotics), a Munich-based robotics company and pioneer of Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) built on an AI-powered collective machine...
- Dr. Amit Goffer
Founder of ReWalk Robotics (now Lifeward). Israeli electrical engineer and quadriplegic inventor who created the ReWalk exoskeleton after an ATV accident in 199...
- Dr. Andreas Franz
Co-CEO of FRAMOS, a leading embedded vision and imaging technology company based in Germany.
- Dr. Arman Hajati
Co-Founder and CTO of Lyte, leading technology direction and core platform development. PhD in EECS from MIT, inventor on 100+ patents. Previously at Apple, led...
- Dr. Benjamin Rapoport
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Precision Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface company. A neurosurgeon and electrical engineer, he holds an MD from ...
- Dr. Bob Currie
CTO of Belltown Power, leading the company's technical and engineering operations.
- Dr. Bob Kindel
Chief Financial Officer at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the world's largest supplier of DDS (Data Distribution Service) connectivity software for real-time and ...
- Dr. Cao Yunan
Dr. Cao Yunan is Chairman and CEO of ELITE Robots, a Suzhou-based collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer he founded. Holds a doctorate from the Robotics Insti...
- Dr. Chao He
Founder and President of MicroPort MedBot, leading surgical robotics pioneer in China.
- Dr. Christian Hainzlmaier
Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. Joined the management team in January 2021. Leads R&D alongside CEO Stephan Huber. Nanotec's ...
- Dr. Daniel Rizzuto
Founder, President and CTO of Nia Therapeutics. PhD in Neuroscience from Brandeis University, postdoctoral training in Neural Engineering at Caltech. Former Dir...
- 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. Dietmar Ley
CEO of Basler AG from 2000 to 2025, succeeding founder Norbert Basler. Also elected Chairman of the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association (2024).
- Dr. Frank Desiere
CEO of CorTec GmbH, a Freiburg-based clinical-stage neurotechnology company developing the Brain Interchange™ implantable brain-computer interface for stroke re...
- Dr. Frank Noppel
Co-founder and CEO of blueflite, a Michigan-based cargo drone OEM. Serial entrepreneur and aerospace enthusiast with 20 years of industry experience. Previously...
- 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. Galip Gürel
Co-founder of Lupin Dental and internationally renowned Turkish dentist specialising in aesthetic and restorative dentistry, particularly porcelain veneers. Aut...
- Dr. Gene Poor
Founder of LifeFormations, a globally recognized animatronics company whose work has been featured at Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Great Wolf Lodge...
- Dr. Gery Colombo
Co-founder and CEO of Hocoma. A trained electrical and biomedical engineer who has led the company since its founding in 1996, driving innovation in robotic neu...
- Dr. Guido Monterzino
Co-founder and CTO of Greenjets. Educated at Cranfield University. Leads the company's proprietary propulsion architecture development.
- Dr. Herbert Diess
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies AG. Born 24 October 1958 in Munich, Germany (Austrian citizen). Former CEO of Volkswagen AG (2018-202...
- Dr. James Cantor
Dr. James Cantor is Chief of Performance Excellence and Strategic Partnerships at [Leidos](/companies/leidos), where he oversees strategic sourcing, execution a...
- Dr. Jan Goetz
Co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX), a Finnish superconducting quantum computing company he spun out of Aalto University and VTT Technica...
- Dr. Jane Zhang
Dr. Jane Zhang (Zhiwu Zhang) co-founded SureStar in 2005 after earning her Ph.D from the University of Guelph. She leads the company's strategic direction in au...
- Dr. Joana Baetz
Group CHRO since 2022, appointed to Management Board in April 2025. Nearly two decades in logistics, seven with Rhenus. Doctorate from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Un...
- Dr. Ken Wise
William G. Dow Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Co-founder of Intellige...
- Dr. Khalil Najafi
Schlumberger Professor of Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Mich...
- Dr. Kim Nilsson
Chief Operating Officer at Devanthro, joining in 2023 to scale the Robody Cares platform toward commercialisation. Holds a PhD in Astrophysics (jointly from Cop...
- Dr. Leon Alkalai
Dr. Leon Alkalai is a 32-year veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he served as capture lead for the GRAIL lunar mission and received the NA...
- Dr. Li Luyang
Co-founder and CEO of VisionNav Robotics. VisionNav was founded in 2016 to develop autonomous industrial vehicles and logistics automation solutions.
- Dr. Lisa Su
President, Chair, and CEO of AMD since 2014. Born in Tainan, Taiwan; raised in the United States. PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1994), specializing in...
- Dr. Marcus Ewig
Appointed to Management Board in April 2025 for the Automotive Division and Group Procurement, Health & Safety, Quality Management.
- Dr. Martin Schuettler
CTO and Co-Founder of CorTec GmbH, a Freiburg-based neurotechnology company developing the Brain Interchange™ fully implantable wireless brain-computer interfac...
- Dr. Martin von Hoyningen-Huene
Member of the CLAAS Group Executive Board, responsible for the Tractors & Implements business unit and the Engineering service unit at [CLAAS](/companies/claas)...
- Dr. Matthias Metz
CEO of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (Bosch Home Appliances), one of the world's leading home appliance manufacturers.
- Dr. Michael Kahana
Founder and CEO of Nia Therapeutics. Pioneer in human memory research with 230+ publications and 35k+ citations (h-index=100). Co-founder of the Computational M...
- Dr. Michael Leiters
German automotive executive. PhD in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen. CTO of Ferrari (2014–2022), CEO of McLaren Automotive (2022–2025), and appointed CE...
- Dr. Michael Mertin
Dr. Michael Mertin has served as President & CEO of AT&S AG since May 1, 2025, succeeding Andreas Gerstenmayer; he leads the Austrian manufacturer of high-end p...
- 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. Nader Najafi
Co-founder, President, and CEO of Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISS), established in January 1995. A MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology expert...
- Dr. Oliver Blume
German automotive executive (b. 1968, Braunschweig). PhD in mechanical engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai. CEO of Porsche AG 2015–2025, leading the co...
- Dr. Patrick Pfaff
CTO of Franka Emika (now Franka Robotics), a Munich-based robotics company pioneering Robotics-as-a-Service and AI-powered collaborative robots. He joined Frank...
- 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. Rodney Heiligmann
President of LifeFormations (dba LF Studios), an animatronics and themed-environments company based in Bowling Green, Ohio. Joined the company in 1993, became p...
- Dr. Sai Zhang
Founder and Executive Chairman of Robotphoenix. Born 1984. Led the company from founding in 2012 through its Hong Kong IPO in May 2026.
- Dr. Sebastien Beley
Team member at Norbert Health, a physical AI company developing autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities.
- Dr. Stan Schneider
CEO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework provider for autonomous systems. RTI's Connext DDS software runs over 2,000 designs in autono...
- Dr. Stefen Koubi
Co-founder of Lupin Dental and French dental practitioner focused on innovative and minimally invasive dental procedures. Co-founded Lupin Dental in 2019 with D...
- Dr. Sun Hongxing
General Manager of Geosun Navigation. Professor at Wuhan University. Key figure in geospatial and LiDAR industry.
- Dr. Sven Schneider
Chief Financial Officer of Infineon Technologies AG. Member of the Management Board since 2019 (appointed until 30 April 2032). Born 1966 in Berlin, Germany. Ba...
- Dr. Taner Ozcelik
CEO of Mythic AI. Former VP and GM of NVIDIA's automotive division.
- 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.
- Dr. Todd Citron
Chief Technology Officer, Vice President, and General Manager of Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) at [The Boeing Company](/companies/boeing). Responsible for...
- Dr. Wilhelm Nehring
CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs Group since May 1, 2025. Succeeded Dr.-Ing. Gunther Kegel after 30 years of leadership. Previously served as CEO of a mechanical engineerin...
- Dr. Yuval Gerson
Co-Founder and VP Engineering at Lyte, with 25+ years in advanced R&D. Previously held senior R&D and architecture roles at Apple, PrimeSense, Rafael, and multi...
- Dr. Yvonne Linney
Chief Operating Officer of Artificial Inc., a lab automation company providing a first-of-its-kind orchestration platform for life science labs. Joined Artifici...
- Dr. Zhang Tianlei
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Trunk Technology (Trunk.Tech), a Beijing-based L4 autonomous driving truck company founded in 2017. He holds a PhD from the Departm...
- Dr. Zheng Wang
Founder and CEO of Wisson Robotics, a global pioneer in general-purpose soft robotics and Pliabot technology.
- Dr.-Ing. Gunther Kegel
CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs for over 30 years until stepping down in May 2025. Led the company through decades of growth, international expansion, and the digital tran...
- Drew Larsen
Director of Business Development at ASI Mining (now Epiroc Open Autonomy). Led the Roy Hill subcontract partnership with Epiroc and the MS4M compatibility agree...
- Duane Kuang
Founding partner of Qiming Venture Partners. 8 robotics/physical AI participations in China.
- Duncan Tourolle
7 patents. Deep expertise in PPG and vital-sign AI. PhD.
- Duncan Wanblad
CEO of Anglo American since April 2022. 30+ years in global mining. Deploying autonomous mining trucks at Quellaveco and Los Bronces mines.
- Durmus Özcan
Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. Has been in charge of sales and marketing for Nanotec's subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, and the US ...
- Dustin Baker
Founder and Managing Partner of Alcove Development.
- Dustin Freckleton
Co-founder and CEO of Happy Health (Happy Ring); a physician (MD).
- Dustin Moskovitz
Co-founder and CEO of Asana.
- Dvir Cohen
CEO and Co-Founder of Momentis Surgical since October 2013. Leads development of the ANOVO Robotic Surgical System for gynecological and general surgery procedu...
- Dwight Corcoran
CEO and Co-Founder of Cormor, a 3D construction printing company based in Canada.
- Dylan Field
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Figma. Chair of the Board of Directors. Co-founded Figma in 2012. Led the company through its IPO in July 2025.
- Dylan Fox
Founder and CEO of AssemblyAI (founded 2017). Former machine learning engineer at Cisco. Founded AssemblyAI after seeing limitations of existing speech recognit...
- Dylan Hamm
Chief Technology Officer at [Performance Drone Works (PDW)](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/performance-drone-works), promoted in February 2024. Former...
- Dylan Ng Terntzer
Co-founder and CEO of LionsBot International, the Singapore-based commercial cleaning robotics company founded in 2018.
- Earl Adams Jr.
VP Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at [Plus](/companies/plus).
- Eash Sundaram
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at JetBlue Airways, and founder of JetBlue Technology Ventures. Serves on the board of ...
- 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...
- Eddie Wu
CEO of Alibaba Group since September 2023 and one of its 19 co-founders (1999). Alibaba's first programmer; served as CTO of Alipay, CTO of Taobao, and head of ...
- Edgar Waldo 'Billy' Ingram
Co-founder of White Castle in 1921 with Walt Anderson. Insurance and real-estate businessman who partnered with Anderson to create the White Castle chain and ex...
- Edmond Richer
Associate Professor, ME. Founder, Biomedical Instrumentation & Robotics Lab. Robotics, haptic interfaces, soft/wearable robotics. NSF/DOD/NIH/NASA funded.
- Edmund B. Ball
Co-founder of Ball Corporation alongside his brothers. The Ball family built the company into a leading packaging manufacturer.
- Edmund J. Longyear
Founder of Boart Longyear, a global mining drilling services and products company with a history spanning over 130 years.
- Eduardo
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- Eduardo Bartolomeo
CEO of Vale S.A., a Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest producers of iron ore and nickel.
- Eduardo Fonseca
CEO of EndoQuest Robotics. Leading PARADIGM Trial through FDA final stage. Partnered with NVIDIA IGX Thor. Series D-2 co-led by Crescent Enterprises and Dr. Fre...
- Eduardo Saverin
Co-founder of Facebook and founder of B Capital, a global venture capital firm investing in technology companies.
- Edvard Franckel
Founder of [Atlas Copco](/companies/atlas-copco) (originally AB Atlas) in 1873 in Stockholm, Sweden. Franckel established the company as an industrial equipment...
- Edvardas Satkauskas
CEO of Sentante.
- Edward Cheng
Founder and CEO of Gaussian Robotics (Gausium), a Shanghai-based commercial cleaning robotics company he founded in 2013. Previously educated at the University ...
- Edward Hsiao
Sales manager at Xiamen 3-Circles Sports Technology Co., Ltd. (Sunpadow brand), specializing in new energy battery export for drone and automotive applications....
- Edward Huang
Hal N. and Peggy S. Pennington Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University. Collaborates on NVIDIA-funded autonomous robotics...
- Edward Johns
Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London and Associate Professor in the Department of Computing. Founding member of the Dyson Robotics Lab....
- Edward Knight
Executive Vice Chairman of Nasdaq. Leading regulatory and government relations.
- 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.
- Edwin Chong
Professor and Dept Head, ECE. Control & optimization, AI for robotics.
- Edwin Roks
President and CEO of TTM Technologies.
- Egon Durban
Co-CEO of Silver Lake. Growth equity in tech including robotics.
- Eiichi Ukai
President and CEO of NSK Ltd.
- Eiji Fujimura
Senior Managing Executive Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Chief Officer, Regional Operations (North America). President, CEO and Director of American Honda Mot...
- Eiji Hashimoto
CEO of Nippon Steel Corporation.
- Eiji Kawahito
CEO of Oriental Motor.
- Einar Nistad
Norwegian shipping industry veteran who founded the Nistad Group in 1967, building it into a notable Norwegian shipping and investment company.
- Eisaku Ito
President and CEO of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (parent of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding).
- Eiso Kant
Co-founder and CTO of Poolside, building AI for software engineering. Previously founded source{d}, the first company dedicated to applying AI to code, and Athe...
- Ekaterina Bereziy
Co-founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, a medical exoskeleton company developing powered hip-knee exoskeletons for gait rehabilitation of patients with locomotor and ne...
- Ekaterina Grib
Co-founder of KEWAZO (founded 2016), the construction-robotics company digitizing scaffolding and material transport.
- Elbér Ayoub
Chief Operations Officer at Rocsys, an autonomous charging company for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets.
- Elena García Armada
Co-founder and CEO of [Marsi Bionics](/companies/marsi-bionics), a Spanish spin-off developing wearable robotic exoskeletons for children and adults with gait p...
- Elie Metri
Founder and CEO of QSS AI and Robotics.
- 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...
- Eliot Pence
CEO of Dominion Dynamics, a technology company providing industrial automation solutions.
- Eliran Glazer
Chief Financial Officer of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2021, overseeing Finance, Accounting, Treasury, and Investor Relations. Joined the company four month...
- Elke Reichart
Chief Digital and Sustainability Officer of Infineon Technologies AG. Member of the Management Board since 2023 (appointed until 31 October 2030). Born 1965 in ...
- Elke Zec
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. Served as Business Controller since 2015, appointed Commercial Manager in 2020, and elevated ...
- Elliott Hill
President and CEO of Nike, Inc.
- Eloi Alonso
Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.
- 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 ...
- Elon Rimon
Director of Technion Robot Navigation Laboratory.
- Elram Goren
Co-founder and former CEO of Fabric (formerly CommonSense Robotics), the robotic micro-fulfillment company founded in 2015.
- Elvis Nava
Co-founder and CTO of Mimic Robotics. ETH Zurich researcher focused on foundation models for robotic manipulation and generative AI for physical AI.
- 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.
- Emile de Rijk
Dr. Emile de Rijk is CEO and co-founder of SWISSto12, a Swiss space company building HummingSat geostationary small satellites using 3D printing technology. Est...
- Emiliano Grodzki
Co-founder of Bitfarms (2017). Former CEO resigned 2022.
- Emma Baillie
Chief People Officer of Wayve.
- Emmet Peppers
Creator of the Robot Brains Podcast and YouTube channel; interviews leading humanoid robotics researchers and founders
- Emrah Celik
Advisor to UM's Lunabotics ASME team, which designs, builds, and codes autonomous lunar mining robots for NASA's annual Lunabotics competition.
- Ena Gallagher
Fountain Healthcare. Irish life sciences.
- Enno de Lange
Director of Physical AI at Hexagon Robotics, leading AI development for the AEON humanoid platform.
- Enrico Grassi
Founder and President of E80 Group. Established the company in Viano, Italy in 1980 and led its growth into a global integrated intralogistics automation provid...
- Enrico Krog Iversen
CEO of OnRobot, a Danish company producing end-of-arm tooling for collaborative robots.
- 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, ...
- Eom Yoon-seol
CEO of AeiROBOT, a Korean humanoid robotics startup spun out from Hanyang University ERICA. Leads the company's industrial humanoid robot program including the ...
- Er-Wei Bai
Er-Wei Bai is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. He serves as the ...
- 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.
- Eran Zinman
Co-founder and Co-CEO of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2020 and a member of the board since 2018. Previously served as the company's Chief Technology Officer ...
- Eren Bali
Turkish-born engineer and technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Udemy and Carbon Health. Born in Malatya, Turkey; based in the United States. Returned to Udemy...
- Erez Dagan
President of Wayve; previously spent ~20 years at Mobileye, including EVP of Product & Strategy.
- Erez Galonska
Co-founder and former CEO of Infarm. AI-powered vertical farming network.
- Eric Abrahams
CTO of [Realbotix](/companies/realbotix), a leader in humanoid robotics and embodied AI (OTC: XBOTF). Oversees the technical development of Realbotix's companio...
- 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 Benhamou
Founder Benhamou Global Ventures.
- Éric Béranger
Éric Béranger is a French engineer and business executive who has served as CEO of MBDA, Europe's leading missile systems company, since June 2019. A graduate o...
- Eric Brock
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ondas Holdings (Nasdaq: ONDS), a provider of private wireless networks and autonomous drone systems through subsidiaries American ...
- Eric Cheng
CEO of Tianma America.
- Eric DeMarco
President and CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions since November 2004. Leads the company transformation into a top national security technology provider ...
- Eric DeMarco
President and CEO of Kratos Defense, developing unmanned aerial systems and defense technology
- Eric Diehr
Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team.
- Eric Friedman
Co-founder and former CTO of Fitbit. Left Google in 2023 as part of Fitbit leadership departure.
- Eric Hansotia
Chairman, President & CEO of AGCO Corporation. World's largest pure-play farm equipment manufacturer. Precision agriculture technology leader.
- Eric Jackson
Founder and President of [Cellula Robotics](/companies/cellula-robotics), a Burnaby, BC-based marine technology company building hydrogen fuel cell-powered auto...
- Eric Jang
Former VP of AI at 1X Technologies (departed January 2026); previously a research scientist at Google Brain.
- Eric Jang
Former VP of AI at 1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics), leading AI for humanoid robots.
- Eric Jing
CEO of Ant Group. 10 participations including Zeroth, Unitree Robotics.
- Eric Ladizinsky
Chief Scientist at D-Wave Quantum, co-founder of D-Wave Systems, and a leading figure in superconducting quantum computing.
- Eric Leuthardt
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NeuroLutions, a medical device company commercializing the IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System, the first ...
- Eric Levitt
Co-founder of Square Robot and former Bluefin Robotics executive. Founded Square Robot in 2016 alongside Jerome Vaganay and William O'Halloran to provide roboti...
- Eric Li (Li Shufu)
Co-Founder of ECARX. Founder and Chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which controls Geely Auto, Volvo Cars, Lotus, Polestar, and other automotive brands. ...
- Eric Litman
Four-time entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Aescape. Bringing together expertise from Amazon, Apple, Fitbit for AI-powered robotic massage.
- Eric M. Smith
39th Commandant of the US Marine Corps.
- Eric M. Wetzel
Aderholdt Endowed Associate Professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn University and director of the Construction Automation, Robotics and...
- Eric M. Wilcots
Interim Chancellor of UW-Madison.
- Eric Malawer
Intelligence and Cybersecurity Expert.
- Eric Manlunas
Co-founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Partners. Previously founded Interfoods (acquired by La Reina) and Sitestar (acquired by Lynchburg.net). Made over 2...
- Éric Martel
Canadian business executive; President & CEO of Bombardier since April 2020 and a board director. Has repositioned Bombardier as the world's leading business av...
- Eric Martineau-Fortin
Co-founder White Star Capital. Transatlantic VC.
- Eric Pan
Founder and CEO of Seeed Studio a leading open hardware platform company based in Shenzhen China.
- 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.
- Eric Starkloff
Former CEO of National Instruments (NI). Technology executive and industry thought leader.
- Eric Truitt
CEO and co-founder of Mantis Space, a space-power startup building a constellation of satellites that beam laser power to spacecraft in Earth orbit. A U.S. mili...
- Eric Wei
Co-founder and CEO of MoveEz, a Taiwan-born entrepreneur leading the Japanese robotaxi startup's autonomous driving development and global expansion. Previously...
- Eric Winn
CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the US.
- Eric Xu
Co-founder of Baidu.
- Eric Yu
Founder and CEO of GTCOM (Global Tone Communication Technology), a world-leading big data and artificial intelligence company focused on cross-language data and...
- Eric Zheng
Founder and CEO of RealMan Robotics (RealMan Intelligent), a Beijing-based manufacturer of ultra-lightweight robotic arms and joint modules for the Physical AI ...
- Erik Dyrkoren
CEO and co-founder of Blueye Robotics, a spinoff from NTNU developing underwater ROVs for inspection and maritime security.
- Erik Engstrom
Chief Executive Officer of RELX Group. Appointed CEO in November 2009.
- Erik Haugane
Co-founder of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015), the Norwegian underwater drone company based in Trondheim. Blueye develops the Blueye Pionee...
- Erik Nieves
Founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics in San Antonio, Texas, developing AI vision software for robotic parcel handling.
- Erin Defossé
Chief Operating Officer at [Slingshot Aerospace](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/slingshot-aerospace), joining in May 2022 to lead commercialization of...
- Erle P Halliburton
Founder of Halliburton Company (1919).
- Ernest Oppenheimer
Founder of Anglo American (1917).
- 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.
- Etienne Fieg
Co-founder and CEO of [Lytra](/companies/lytra), a Munich-based AI startup building an operating system for manufacturing service. Completed pre-seed financing ...
- Etienne Lacroix
Product-driven business leader and entrepreneur. Former GE product manager and McKinsey consultant. Founded Vention in 2016 to democratize industrial automation...
- Etienne Louvet
French entrepreneur and founder/CEO of [IONA](/companies/iona-drones), developing autonomous tilt-rotor drones for last-mile rural delivery in Ireland. Founded ...
- Eugen Elmiger
CEO of maxon Group, a Swiss company producing precision motors and drive systems for robotics and aerospace.
- 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.
- Eugene Schmitt
General Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Led Saronic $1.75B Series D, Mind Robotics $400M round.
- Eugene Tu
Dr. Eugene L. Tu is the Center Director of NASA Ames Research Center. He has held various leadership roles at NASA Ames since the 1990s.
- Eugene Zasoba
Co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings.
- Euisun Chung
Chairman of Hyundai Motor Group. Owns Boston Dynamics.
- Evan Beard
Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of Standard Bots. Leading advocate for American robotics manufacturing and national robotics policy.
- Evan Hertafeld
CTO and Co-Founder of A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc. Co-founded the company at Brown University in 2016 alongside CEO Aaron Zhang, originally as a drone delivery proj...
- Evan Loomis
Co-founder of ICON. Founded 2017 in Austin, TX.
- Evan Spiegel
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Stanford University product design alumnus; youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Led Snap through its 2017 IPO on the NYSE...
- 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.
- Evan Zeglinski-Spinney
CEO of Sielo Robotics, a uOttawa startup developing affordable assistive robotic arms for wheelchair users.
- Even Rogers
CEO and Co-founder of [True Anomaly](/companies/true-anomaly), a Denver-based defense-tech company building spacecraft and software systems for space superiorit...
- Everson Lopes
Founder of CloudWalk, Inc., a Brazilian fintech company building payment infrastructure and financial services. Also founded The Hive Brasil, a technology inves...
- 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.
- Eyal Desheh
Chairman of the Board of [Tevel Aerobotics](/companies/tevel-aerobotics), an Israeli agritech company developing autonomous flying fruit-picking robots. A veter...
- Eyal Zamir
Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces since 2025.
- 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...
- Fairleigh Dickinson
Co-founder of Becton Dickinson.
- Falco Paepenmüller
Falco Paepenmüller is CTO at Windmöller & Hölscher.
- Fangzhou Hong
NTU Singapore alumnus and co-founder of Ropedia, serving as CTO.
- Fareed Aljawhari
Founder and CEO of Micropolis Robotics in Dubai, developing autonomous patrol and security robots in collaboration with Dubai Police and government entities.
- Farid Kendoul
Co-founded Emesent in 2018. CTO. Leading autonomous exploration and drone autonomy R&D.
- Farnam Jahanian
10th President of Carnegie Mellon University.
- Fatema Hamdani
CEO of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, an aerospace company developing unmanned aerial vehicles for long-endurance missions.
- Fausto Panizzolo
Founder and CEO of Moveo Srl, an Italian company commercializing ExoBand, a lightweight self-powered soft exoskeleton for walking assistance. Holds an MSc in Bi...
- Federico Collarte
Co-founder and CEO of [Baraja](/companies/baraja), a Sydney-based LiDAR company that invented Spectrum-Scan™ technology — a patented wavelength-tuning approach ...
- 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,...
- Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs. Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford HAI, creator of ImageNet, former Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.
- Felicity Carson
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at onsemi.
- Felipe Roz
Head of Mechanical Engineering at Gritt. MIT MechE graduate leading hardware engineering, design, and simulation.
- Felix Reinshagen
Co-founder and CEO of NavVis, a Munich-based spatial intelligence company specializing in indoor mapping, digital twin platforms, and SLAM-based mobile mapping ...
- Felix Schill
Co-founder and CTO of Hydromea. Completed his Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. Leads underwater robotics and wireless communication t...
- Felix Strohbichler
CFO of PALFINGER AG since October 2017. Previously Managing Director of B&C Industrieholding GmbH (2015-2017) and held multiple executive roles within the PALFI...
- Feng Qiang
CEO and Vice Chairman of BOE Technology Group, appointed January 2025. Also serves as Chairman of BOE's Executive Committee.
- Feng Xingya
Chairman and President of GAC Group (Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.) since February 2025; previously General Manager (CEO) since 2021 and an executive dir...
- Ferdinand Porsche
German Bohemian automotive engineer who founded Porsche in 1931. Also designed the Volkswagen Beetle. Previously worked at Daimler.
- Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Professor of Medical Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. Leads the Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory and the Applied Mec...
- Fermi Wang
Serial entrepreneur and video compression technology expert. Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ambarella since 2004. Previously CEO and co-founder of Afara Websy...
- Fernand Badano
Co-founder and Managing Director of Quantum Surgical, previously worked at Medtech SA.
- Fernando De los Rios
Co-founder and CEO of Hyperion Robotics, a Helsinki-based construction-robotics company founded in 2020. Former serial entrepreneur (two prior Silicon Valley st...
- Fernando Fernandez
CEO of Unilever since March 2025. Previously CFO and President of Unilever.
- Fidji Simo
CEO of Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) from August 2021 to 2025. Previously spent 15+ years at Facebook/Meta leading major product launches including News Feed, Stor...
- Florian Reuter
German business executive who served as CEO of Volocopter GmbH from the company's early years through March 2022, leading the urban air mobility pioneer through...
- Florian Solzbacher
Co-Founder and Chairman of [Blackrock Neurotech](/companies/blackrock-neurotech), a brain-computer interface company he co-founded in 2008 with CEO Marcus Gerha...
- Ford Tamer
CEO of Lattice Semiconductor.
- Former EVP Aldebaran Robotics
Former EVP at Aldebaran Robotics (now part of United Robotics Group), contributing to the development of the Nao humanoid robot.
- Forrest Iandola
American computer scientist specializing in efficient AI. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by ...
- 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 ...
- Francesco Ferro
CEO of Euroimpianti and President of euRobotics.
- Francesco Macrì
Chairman of Leonardo since May 7, 2026. Board member since 2023; Executive Chairman of Estra; National President of Confservizi.
- Francesco Milleri
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EssilorLuxottica. Leading the company's transformation into a med-tech, science and data-driven company.
- Francesco Mondada
Swiss roboticist and EPFL professor who leads the MOBOTS research group. Co-created Thymio in 2010 and co-founded K-Team SA in 1995. Born 1967 in Locarno, Switz...
- Francisco Gomes Neto
President and CEO of Embraer.
- Franco Stefani
Italian engineer and entrepreneur who founded System Group (ceramics automation) in the 1970s and System Logistics in 1987. Also founded Modula S.p.A. (vertical...
- François Jackow
CEO of Air Liquide. World leader in industrial gases — hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. Supplying hydrogen for mobility and industry.
- François Locoh-Donou
Chairman, President and CEO of F5 Networks.
- Frank Bedo
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Growth Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc.
- 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 Bozich
President and CEO of Trinseo since March 4, 2019, succeeding Christopher D. Pappas. Previously President and CEO of SI Group (2013-2019), a global specialty che...
- Frank Bunts
Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.
- Frank C. Ball
Co-founder of Ball Corporation. The Ball brothers established the company in 1880, initially manufacturing glass canning jars.
- Frank C. Lanza
Frank C. Lanza (November 6, 1931 – June 6, 2006) was an American defense industry executive who co-founded [L-3 Communications](/companies/l3harris) in 1997 wit...
- Frank Chang
Co-founder of Kneron. Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Former President of National Chiao Tung University (20...
- Frank Dimina
Chief Revenue Officer of Shield AI.
- Frank Hasenfratz
Founder of Linamar Corporation, building it from a small machining shop into a global manufacturing powerhouse.
- Frank Meyer
Member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since February 1, 2024. Responsible for the Bosch Energy and Building Technology business sector with its...
- Frank Spedding
Founder of Ames National Laboratory.
- Franz Grimme
Chairman of GRIMME Group.
- Franz Josef Popp
Co-founder of BMW.
- Franz Josef Popp
Co-founder of BMW.
- Franziska Bossart
Head of Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund. 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Apptronik.
- Fraser Smith
Longtime Sarcos employee who became President of Raytheon Sarcos after Jacobsen's departure in 2009. Co-led the 2015 management buyout from Raytheon with Ben Wo...
- Fred Almeida
Co-founder of Ascent.
- Fred C. Koch
American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900-1967) who founded the oil refinery firm that became Koch Industries. Born in Quanah, Texas, graduated from MIT...
- 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 Moll
Physician and medical device entrepreneur widely known as the 'father of robotic surgery.' Co-founded Intuitive Surgical (da Vinci system, 10,000+ systems deplo...
- Fred Parietti
Co-founder and CEO of Multiply Labs. Founded in 2016 with the intuition that robotic manufacturing can fulfill personalized medicine.
- Fred Radcliffe
President of [Robocom Systems International](/companies/robocom-systems), a supply chain execution software company providing warehouse management and distribut...
- Fred Shentu
Co-founder and CTO of XDOF, co-authored GELLO teleoperation system at UC Berkeley
- Fred Wilson
Co-founder of Union Square Ventures. 5 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Frederic dAllest
Founder of Arianespace.
- Frédéric Lissalde
Executive at BorgWarner, involved in CEO succession planning and leadership transition at the automotive supplier.
- Frederic Sanchez
Chairman and CEO of Fives Group.
- Frederick W Smith
Founder of FedEx Corporation.
- Frederick W Smith
Founder of FedEx Corporation.
- Frederick W. Smith
Founder of FedEx Corporation who revolutionized express delivery, launching Federal Express in 1971 based on a concept from his Yale term paper. A Marine Corps ...
- Frederik Brantner
Co-founder and CEO of Magazino GmbH, leading Munich-based mobile robotics company acquired by Jungheinrich AG in 2022.
- Frederik Schonebeck
Co-CEO of FRAMOS.
- 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.
- Freek Hartman
Founder of Codian Robotics in 2011. After ABB acquired Codian in October 2020, Hartman later became Managing Director of Rolumac Robotics, another delta robot v...
- Fu Liquan
Founder and Chairman of Dahua Technology.
- Fumio Kanehiro
Senior researcher at AIST; lead developer of the HRP series humanoid robots including HRP-5P
- Fumitoshi Matsuno
Director of Kyoto University Mechatronics Lab.
- Fumiya Kokubu
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Director, Nominating Committee Member (Chairperson), Compensation Committee Member.
- Funke Opeke
Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010, building West Africa's leading data center and subsea cable company. MainOne was acquired by Equinix in 2022 for US$320 mil...
- 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).
- Gabriel Massey
President and Managing Director of Pipistrel, the Slovenian electric aircraft manufacturer and Textron subsidiary. Oversaw production of the Velis Electro, the ...
- Gabriele Grassi
Deputy Chairman at E80 Group. Announced the strategic partnership with Exotec at Drinktec 2025 in Munich.
- Gagan Biyani
American serial entrepreneur of Indian descent, co-founder of Udemy, Sprig, and Maven. Born May 30, 1987.
- Gajan Mohanarajah
Co-founder and CEO of Rapyuta Robotics, spun out of ETH Zurich. Leading cloud robotics platform development in Tokyo.
- Gal Niv
Co-founder of [Enigma](/companies/enigma), an AI robotics research lab emerging from stealth in July 2026 with a $71M seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbi...
- Ganesh V. Iyer
Chief Executive Officer of NIO U.S. since December 2018, and a member of NIO's global management team. Joined NIO in April 2016. Over 35 years of experience acr...
- Ganna Halvorsen
VP of Project Development and Legal Counsel at MSB Global Services. Brings 25 years of leadership in utility-scale renewable energy and grid-integrated infrastr...
- Gansha Wu
CEO and co-founder of UISEE Technologies, a Chinese autonomous driving company focused on L4 autonomous vehicles for logistics and campus environments.
- Gao Jiyang
Co-founder and CEO of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 33. Works at the company's Suzhou factory ov...
- Gao Lufeng
Founder and CEO of Segway-Ninebot, a unicorn in the global smart mobility industry.
- Gao Wangshu
Founder of Lymow, developing smart lawn care robotics.
- Gao Wei
Chairman and Party Secretary of China Railway Tunnel Group.
- Gao Wenbao (Gavin Gao)
Vice Chairman of BOE and Executive Director, Chairman of the Board of BOE Varitronix Limited.
- Gao Yang (高阳)
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spirit AI, a Beijing-based robotics company building a universal brain for robots using embodied AI models. Gao Yang is an Ass...
- Gao Ziqing
CEO of Reeman Robotics (Shenzhen Reeman Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.), leading the company's open robotics platform strategy and autonomous mobile robot busi...
- Garrick J. Rochow
President and CEO of CMS Energy and Consumers Energy.
- Garry Tan
President of Y Combinator. 9 robotics/physical AI participations including Cosmic Robotics.
- Gary Burrell
American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who co-founded [Garmin](/companies/garmin) with [Min Kao](/people/min-kao) in 1989 to build GPS na...
- Gary Calnan
CEO and Co-founder of CisLunar Industries, a space-technology startup building in-space manufacturing, metal foundries, and power processing infrastructure for ...
- 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 Cohen
Appointed CEO of iRobot in May 2024. iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025.
- Gary E. Dickerson
President & CEO of Applied Materials. 35+ years in semiconductors. Former CEO of Varian Semiconductor (acquired by Applied Materials 2011), 18 years at KLA-Tenc...
- Gary Giesbrecht
President and CEO of MacDon Industries. Leading MacDon as it became an OEM supplier to several large equipment manufacturers and through its acquisition by Lina...
- Gary Lai
Co-founder of Interlune. Former chief architect at Blue Origin, where he led design of the New Shepard vehicle.
- Gary Marcus
Scientist, author, and serial entrepreneur. CEO & Co-founder of [Robust.AI](/companies/robust-ai), building cognitive robot intelligence platforms. Professor em...
- Gary Nagle
CEO of Glencore.
- Gary Steele
CEO of Shield AI (since May 2025); previously CEO of Splunk (through its $28B Cisco acquisition) and founding CEO of Proofpoint.
- Gatis Vectirāns
CEO and founder of Brasa Defence Systems, a Latvian defense technology company specializing in soldier systems and future combat systems. 15+ years in the Latvi...
- Gaurav Juneja
Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Communications (Fidium), appointed CEO effective January 2026.
- Gaurav Kapadia
Founder of XN (formerly XN Capital). Previously co-founded Soroban Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.
- Gaurav Sukhatme
Director of USC Robotic Embedded Systems Lab.
- Gautam Gupta
CFO of Atoms (Travis Kalanick robotics startup). Former Uber finance chief from 2013-2017, leaving shortly after Kalanick resigned as CEO. Joined Atoms in Augus...
- Gavin Gao
Chief Executive Officer of OMNIVISION Group. Appointed CEO in November 2025. Previously held senior leadership roles at BOE Technology Group.
- Geb W. Thomas
Geb W. Thomas is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa. His robotics research includes the Nomad project...
- Geewon Park
CEO and Chairman of Doosan Enerbility, a heavy equipment and energy company.
- 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...
- Gen Tsuchikawa
President of Sony Innovation Fund.
- Gene Lowe
President and CEO of SPX Technologies (formerly SPX Corporation) since 2015. Previously led SPX's Thermal Equipment and Services segment.
- General Sir Chris Deverell
Former Commander of UK Strategic Command (Joint Forces Command), April 2016 to May 2019. Serves as a NightDragon advisor on defense and security technology, wor...
- Geoff Gordon
Co-founder and CEO of Denvr Dataworks, an AI cloud infrastructure company.
- 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...
- Geoffrey Hollinger
Professor at Oregon State University Robotics Program. Research in robotic planning and multi-robot systems.
- 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...
- Georg Hattensauer
CEO of TGW Logistics, an Austrian intralogistics and warehouse automation company.
- Georg Schroth
Co-founder and CTO of [NavVis](/companies/navvis), a Munich-based indoor spatial intelligence company building mobile mapping systems and digital twin platforms...
- George Bobb
Executive linked to registry companies.
- George Chao
Founder and CEO of HOBOT Technology Inc., a Taiwanese robotics company established in 2010 specializing in automated window cleaning and floor cleaning robots. ...
- George Crile Sr
Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.
- George Dayton
American businessman (1857-1938) who founded Dayton Dry Goods Company in 1902 in Minneapolis, which later became Target Corporation. Born in Clifton Springs, Ne...
- George Ding
Chairman of Noblelift.
- George E. Bye
Aerospace entrepreneur, USAF veteran pilot, and engineer who founded Bye Aerospace in 2007 and served as CEO until May 2024, when he transitioned to Chairman an...
- George Herman Babcock
Founder of Babcock International.
- George Hotz
Founder of Comma AI. Known as 'geohot', first to unlock the iPhone. Created Comma AI to democratize autonomous driving through open-source software.
- 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 Kantor
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of [Bloomfield Robotics](/companies/bloomfield-robotics), a Pittsburgh-based AgTech startup using AI-powered vision to monitor sp...
- George Konidaris
Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, director of the Intelligent Robot Lab (IRL), part of Brown's bigAI initiative. Research focuses on intelligen...
- George M. Hendee
Co-founder of [Indian Motorcycle](/companies/indian-motorcycle) (originally the Hendee Manufacturing Company) in 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts. A former bi...
- 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 M. Whitesides
Harvard professor who founded Soft Robotics in 2012 to commercialize soft-materials and microfluidics technology for robotic gripping.
- 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.
- George Zachary
CRV (Charles River Ventures). Early investor in robotics.
- Georges Elhedery
Group CEO of HSBC Holdings.
- Geourg Kivijian
Co-founder & CEO of Ornadyne. Award-winning engineer (IEEE/AIAA) recognized for pioneering work in flapping-wing robotics. Previously led coordination systems f...
- Gerald D. Hines
Founder of Hines (1957). American real estate developer who built Hines into a global firm. Died August 23, 2020 at age 95.
- Gerald Loeb
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology at [USC Viterbi](https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Loeb/Gerald). Received B.A. ('69) and M.D. ('72) fr...
- Gerald Mullally
Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a UK-based superconducting quantum computing company. Has served as CEO since June 2024, initially on ...
- Gerald Vogt
CEO of the Stäubli Group since 2021. Joined Stäubli in 1998, held various leadership roles in the Robotics division in Faverges (France), Duncan (South Carolina...
- Géraldine Picaud
Chief Executive Officer of SGS.
- Gerard Paulussen
CEO of Intrion, a privately held logistics automation company headquartered in Huizingen, Belgium (near Brussels), with approximately 120 employees and over a d...
- Gérard Pélisson
Co-founder of Accor Group.
- Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
Co-founder and CTO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Co-authored the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard, the connectivity standard used in autonomous sy...
- Gerd Hirzinger
Gerd Hirzinger joined DLR in 1969, became head of the automation and robotics laboratory in 1976, and served as Director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechat...
- Gerrit Marx
German business executive, Chief Executive Officer of CNH Industrial (parent of Case IH and New Holland Agriculture) since July 2024. Born September 1975. Holds...
- Gerteric Lindquist
CEO and Managing Director of NIBE Industrier. Appointed in 1989 with over 37 years of tenure.
- Ghonhee Lee
Founder & CEO of Katalyst Space Technologies, a defense-tech company focused on dynamic space operations and in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (IS...
- Giacomo Marini
Italian-American entrepreneur, engineer, and venture capitalist. Co-founder of Logitech (1981) with Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta, where he served as EV...
- Gian Piero Cutillo
Co-General Manager of Leonardo since 7 May 2026. Previously Managing Director of the Helicopters Division (2017-2026) and CFO of Leonardo (2012-2017).
- Gianrico Farrugia
President and CEO of Mayo Clinic since 2019. Leads the worlds number one ranked hospital. Announced plans to step down with transition in 2027.
- Gil Maoz
Experienced international defense business executive; completed IDF military service with rank of Colonel. Received the Israel National Defense Award for implem...
- Gilbert Gagnaire
Founder and CEO of EasyMile, the French autonomous-shuttle company behind the EZ10; previously co-founded fintech firm Fermat.
- Gill Pratt
CEO of Toyota Research Institute; former DARPA program manager who ran the DARPA Robotics Challenge; driving Toyota's humanoid robotics program
- Giora Ein-Zvi
Founder and CEO of MediTouch Ltd. Israeli company developing wearable motion capture devices and rehabilitation software for physical therapy.
- Giorgio Fossati
General Counsel of Stellantis N.V. Direct report to the CEO. Member of the Stellantis Leadership Team.
- Giorgio Metta
Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT); lead on the iCub humanoid robot project
- Giorgio Valsecchi
Co-founder and CTO Hardware of RIVR.
- Giovanni Ansaldo
Founder of Ansaldo STS (origins).
- 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...
- Girish Mathrubootham
Founder and Executive Chairman of Freshworks, a customer engagement software company.
- Gita Sukthankar
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCF, director of the Intelligent Agents Lab. PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. R...
- Giuk Lee
CEO of HUROTICS, a South Korean wearable exosuit company he founded in 2022 as a spin-off from the Assistive & Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Chung-Ang Universi...
- Giuseppe Aurilio
Chief Financial Officer of Leonardo since November 2025. Previously Chief Operating Officer of Telespazio S.p.A.
- Giuseppe Maria Prisco
Co-founder and CEO of Medical Microinstruments (MMI; founded 2015 near Pisa), maker of the Symani microsurgery robot.
- Giuseppe Marino
Group CEO of Hitachi Rail (Ansaldo STS).
- Giuseppe Oriolo
Full Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics at Sapienza University of Rome. Director of DIAG Robotics Lab. IEEE Fellow. Author of Foundations of Robotics t...
- Giuseppe Rosso
President and MD of Arriver.
- Glen Instone
President of Husqvarna Forest and Garden Division since August 11, 2025. Oversees Automower robotic lawn mower line.
- Glen Instone
CEO of [Husqvarna Group](/companies/husqvarna). Born 1977, B.A. (Hons) in Accounting & Finance from the University of Teesside, UK. Chartered Institute of Manag...
- Glen Lynch
CEO and Director of Volatus Aerospace, with over 30 years in operational aviation and seven years in aerospace manufacturing. Grew Volatus through M&A into one ...
- Glenn Smith
Chief Executive Officer of Mouser Electronics.
- GN Wang
Founder and CEO of Huayan Robotics (formerly Han's Robot), a collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer that originated from Han's Laser Technology Industry Group...
- Go Maruyama
Go Maruyama is CEO at pSemi.
- Gokul Hemmady
Former CEO of Glydways (as of October 2023), named in the company 56 million Series B funding announcement. Led Glydways during its early personal rapid transit...
- Gokul N A
Co-founder of CynLr. Working on object intelligence for robotics.
- Golnaz Habibi
Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. Director of the Autonomous Interactive Robotics Lab (AIROU). Previously a r...
- Gong Yueqiong
Gong Yueqiong is CEO at Foton Motor.
- Gopal Hegde
SVP Engineering & Operations at SiMa.ai. 30+ years in semiconductor leadership at Cavium (acquired by Marvell), Calxeda, Cisco, Intel, and Acclaim Communication...
- Göran Fredrik Göransson
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Gordon Bell
Co-founder of QNX.
- Gordon Moore
Co-founder of Intel.
- Gordon Stein
VP and GM of US Operations at General Dynamics Land Systems, overseeing the XM30 and other combat vehicle programs.
- Gottfried Neumeister
CEO of KTM AG and Pierer Mobility AG since January 2025.
- Gottlieb Daimler
Founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.
- Gottlieb Stoll
Co-founder of Festo.
- Goutham Subramanian
VP of Software at Saronic; previously at Anduril.
- Grace Brown
Co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Robotics, an Australian deep-tech company developing emotionally intelligent humanoid robots. Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and cre...
- Grace Isford
Partner at Lux Capital. Focuses on AI, automation, and robotics investments including Physical Intelligence, Together AI, and Runway.
- Graci Finco
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology. Director, Limb Loss & Difference Lab. Prosthetics biomechanics, bioethics of bionic/robotic prostheses. NIH R21 grant.
- Graeme Macdonald
CEO of JCB.
- Graham Williams
President of Tract and Senior Managing Director of Tract Capital Management.
- Grant van Rooyen
Founder and CEO of Tract Capital Management, Executive Chairman of Tract and Fleet Data Centers. Previously founded Cologix in 2010 (recapped at ~$4B in 2022) a...
- Greg Abel
Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's designated successor overseeing non-insurance operations.
- Greg Brown
Chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions since 2011. Named 2026 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine. Under his leadership, the company has mad...
- Greg Colacitti
Chief Operating Officer of Volatus Aerospace and co-founder of Drone Delivery Canada (DDC). Dynamic leader with 15+ years of entrepreneurial experience building...
- Greg Cross
Serial tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Soul Machines. Former Chief Business Officer and CEO. Stepped down as CEO in September 2023, resigned from board in J...
- Greg Galvin
Co-founder and former President & CEO of Kionix. Cornell M.S. '82, Ph.D. '84, MBA '93. Founded Kionix in 1993 with Tim Davis to commercialize MEMS fabrication t...
- Greg Hart
President and CEO of Coursera since February 2025.
- Greg Hayes
CEO of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies), a major aerospace and defense contractor.
- Greg Henslee
Executive Chairman of the Board of O'Reilly Automotive. An O'Reilly team member since 1984 (32+ years), he served as CEO from 2005 to 2018, leading the company ...
- 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...
- Greg Smith
President and CEO of Teradyne. Led Teradyne to 13 percent growth in 2025.
- Gregg Hill
Co-founder and General Partner of Parkway Venture Capital. Also Co-Founder and CEO of Hill Gray Seven (HG7). Experienced investor, entrepreneur, and operator.
- Gregor Kolls
Co-founder and CEO of Filics. Leading Munich-based robotics startup building ultra-flat pallet transport AMRs.
- Gregory Bruell
CEO of Transcend Air.
- Gregory Dudek
VP Research and founding Lab Head of the Samsung AI Center, Montreal (2019–2023). Distinguished James McGill Professor of Computer Science at McGill University,...
- Gregory Fish
Joined Aurrion in 2009 as CTO. UCSB alum and co-founder of Agility Communications, a prior UCSB spinout. Led technology development for Aurrion's heterogeneous ...
- 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...
- Gregory S. Gallopoulos
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at General Dynamics.
- Gregory Sawicki
Interim Executive Director of Georgia Tech IRIM since January 2025.
- Gu Weihao
Former general manager of Baidu's Smart Vehicle Division and core founding member of Baidu Apollo. Joined Haomo.AI as CEO in February 2021 with 16 years of AI a...
- Guang-Zhong Yang
Director of SJTU Robotics Institute.
- Guava Suleiman
Co-founder and CEO of Terra Industries, building autonomous defense drones for the African market.
- Guidong Chu
Co-founder and CFO of R-Storm Technology, a Cambridge, MA-based robotics company developing high-altitude cleaning robots.
- Guilhem Herail
Founder and CEO of Hermes Robotics, a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking startup (YC W21) developing driverless technology for commercial pavement sweeping...
- Guillaume Faury
CEO of Airbus SE since April 2019, re-appointed in 2025. Chairman of Airbus SAS (civil aircraft division). Leads Airbus Executive Committee.
- 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 Guangcan
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, widely regarded as the founder of quantum optics and quantum information science in China. Co-founder of [Origin...
- Guo Guoping
Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he established China's first semiconductor quantum chip research group in 2005. Co-...
- 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...
- Guo Tong
Founder and CEO of Galbot; building dexterous humanoid robots focused on upper-body manipulation for logistics and manufacturing
- Guo Yandong
Founder and CEO of Zhipingfang (AI2 Robotics), a Shenzhen-based embodied AI company making humanoid robots. Purdue PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, f...
- Gur Kimchi
Co-founder of Amazon Prime Air.
- Gustaf de Laval
Swedish engineer and inventor (1845–1913) who pioneered the centrifugal cream separator and early milking machines. Co-founded AB Separator with Oscar Lamm in 1...
- Gustav Larson
Co-founder of Volvo Group.
- Gustav Otto
Co-founder of BMW.
- Guy German
Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), maker of autonomous drywall-finishing and painting construction robots.
- Guy Glass
Founder and CEO of UNIT AI, a Boston-based physical AI company building modular warehouse robotics for e-commerce fulfillment and returns. Previously founded Ca...
- Guy Raz
Co-founder of AgriPass, developing human-inspired AI for adaptive field operations in agriculture.
- Guyue Zhou
Associate Professor at Tsinghua University Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR). Leads AIR DISCOVER Lab. Dean of Tsinghua-Dalle Joint Institute of Embodied ...
- Gwyn Jenkins
First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the Royal Navy since May 2025. Holds rank of General.
- H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
Chairman and CEO of GE Aerospace.
- H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
Chairman and CEO of GE Aerospace since 2024 (CEO since 2022). Previously Chairman and CEO of General Electric (2018-2024).
- 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...
- Hadrien Canter
Co-founder & CEO of Alta Ares. AI-first air defense company building counter-drone interceptors. Black Bird turbojet interceptor tested in Arctic conditions wit...
- Hagai Balshai
Founder and CEO of RoboTiCan. Former IDF 669 search-and-rescue unit veteran and mechanical engineer. Founded the company in 2013 to build robotic platforms for ...
- Hagai Zyss
CEO of Autotalks, now VP of Product Management at Qualcomm following the June 2025 acquisition.
- Haig Farris
Haig Farris is the Founding Chairman and Board Member of D-Wave Systems (now D-Wave Quantum), the Vancouver-based quantum computing company. A pioneer of the Ca...
- Haijun Zhao
Co-CEO of SMIC.
- Hajime Fujita
CEO of Daiya Foods.
- Håkan Agnevall
President and CEO of Wärtsilä Corporation since 2021.
- Hamad Al Marar
Managing Director and CEO of EDGE Group, a UAE-based advanced technology and defense company. Leading global expansion efforts.
- Hamid Farzaneh
Founding Engineer at [Avatar Robotics](/companies/avatar-robotics), working on the company's teleoperated humanoid robot platform. Holds a Ph.D. and contributes...
- Hamza Allawi
Co-founder and COO of BellHopp. Previously Director at Pent United Ltd and Risk Associate at National Bank of Kuwait.
- Han Fengtao
Co-founder and CTO of ROKAE Robotics. Oversees the xCore control system platform and embodied AI technology development.
- Han Fengtao (韩峰涛)
Co-founder and CEO of Spirit AI (灵初智能), a Chinese embodied AI and humanoid robot company. Han Fengtao previously served as CTO and co-founder of Rokae Robotics ...
- Han Ji-hyeong
Co-founder and CEO of Autonomous A2Z. Former Hyundai Motor Group autonomous driving engineer. Founded Autonomous A2Z in 2018 with three colleagues from Hyundai ...
- Han Jong-hee
CEO of Samsung Electronics’ DX (Device eXperience) division, overseeing smartphones, TVs, and home appliances.
- Hank Zhao
CTO of ESS Europe at CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited), leading CATLs energy storage system business in Europe. Oversaw launch of the TENER Sta...
- Hanming Ye
Co-founder of Waddle Labs, building AI agents that write control code for robots. Harvard College Class of 2028 student; authored a 2025 paper on steering diffu...
- Hannah Brown
CCO and co-founder of Organifarms, leading commercial strategy for the BERRY strawberry harvesting robot.
- Hannah Teichmann
Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), maker of the Symani Surgical System for microsurgery.
- Hanns Tappeiner
Co-founder and President of Anki, a consumer robotics company. Studied at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria and Carnegie Mellon University. After An...
- Hans Beckhoff
German physicist and founder of Beckhoff Automation, a pioneer of PC-based control technology. Has led the family-owned company since 1980 and remains Managing ...
- Hans Georg Näder
Chairman of the Board of Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA. The Näder family, direct descendants of founder Otto Bock, owns 100% of the company through Näder Holding GmbH ...
- Hans Lee
Co-founder & CTO of Freedom Robotics. Builds the cloud-based Robotics Management Software (RMS) platform.
- Hans Straberg
Chairman of the Board of [Atlas Copco](/companies/atlas-copco) Group since 2014 and Chairman of SKF. Born 1957 in Västervik, Sweden. Swedish business executive ...
- Hans Vassalli
CEO of Tenneco, an automotive components manufacturer specializing in ride performance and clean air systems.
- Hany Shenouda
President and CEO of Microhard Corporation (Microhard Systems), a Calgary-based wireless communications technology company specializing in tactical IP radio lin...
- 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...
- Hao Su
Associate Professor at NYU Tandon, head of the Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics Lab. Research in biomedical engineering and robotics.
- Harald (Harry) Kroeger
President of Automotive at SiMa.ai (joined Jan 2023). 30+ years in automotive: Member of the Board of Management at Bosch (responsible for $25B Automotive Elect...
- Hardy Mehl
CEO of Basler AG since January 1, 2026. Joined Basler in 1999, member of the Management Board since 2014. Previously Chief Sales and Operations Officer. Holds a...
- Harel Gadot
Co-founder, Chairman, President & CEO of Microbot Medical Inc. (founded 2011, NASDAQ listed 2016). Founder of MEDX Ventures Group and XACT Robotics. Former Worl...
- Haris Basit
Chief Strategy Officer of Bitdeer Technologies Group since June 2023. A semiconductor and clean-energy veteran who began his career at IBM, Bell Labs, and Rockw...
- Harri Valpola
Founder and principal scientist of ZenRobotics; pioneered AI-based waste sorting technology based on his research in machine learning and computational neurosci...
- Harris Wang
VP Corporate Development and GM North America at LSLiDAR. Previously held roles at Velodyne LiDAR, PlusAI, ITW Test and Measurement, and Kollmorgen. Holds a Glo...
- Harrison Schmitt
Co-founder of Interlune. Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist — the last human to walk on the Moon. Former U.S. Senator from New Mexico.
- Harry Bram
Owner of Archbald 25 Developer LLC.
- Harry Holt
Group CEO of Babcock International Group PLC. Previously CEO of Babcock Nuclear sector. Appointed Group CEO effective 31 July 2026 succeeding David Lockwood.
- Harry Hubbert
Executive at Greenroom Robotics, contributing to maritime and subsea autonomous robotics development.
- Harry Husted
Chief Technology Officer at BorgWarner, the automotive supplier specializing in propulsion systems and EV components.
- Harry Surden
Harry Surden is a Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, where he has taught since 2008, and Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Cod...
- Harshavardhan Chitale
CEO of Hero MotoCorp, effective January 5, 2026.
- Hartmut Jenner
CEO of Karcher.
- Hasham Khan
Co-founder of BellHopp. Previously Account Executive at Zscaler and Salesforce, with prior business development experience at a company acquired by Google.
- Hassan Alnaqbi
Hassan Alnaqbi serves as CEO of Khazna Data Centers, a G42 subsidiary and the largest data center provider in the UAE with 673 MW of capacity.
- Hassane El-Khoury
President and Chief Executive Officer of onsemi (ON Semiconductor Corporation) and Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC since December 2020. Also elected as...
- 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.
- Hayato Oumi
Executive Vice President of NSK Ltd. Head of Technology Development Division HQ, President of NSK Institute of Technology, Responsible for Quality Assurance Div...
- Hayden Gosch
Co-founder and CTO of Voltair. University of Washington ECE alumnus (BSECE '25) who focused on power electronics. Spent two years doing system protection engine...
- He Dongfeng
Chairman of COMAC.
- He Jiabin
Chinese product designer and entrepreneur (born 1992, Zhuzhou, Hunan). Studied industrial design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, interned at Microso...
- He Minjia
Chairman of Guangzhou CNC Equipment (GSK CNC), a Chinese manufacturer of CNC systems and industrial robots. Under his leadership GSK entered the industrial robo...
- 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...
- He Xiongwei
Founder and CEO of Mushiny, an agricultural robotics company building autonomous farming solutions.
- He Yu
Chairman of China General Nuclear Power Group.
- Heath Mitts
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TE Connectivity; elected to the Board of Directors in March 2021. Joined TE in September 2016. Previousl...
- Heba Khamis
CEO and Co-founder of Contactile, an Australian robotics startup developing tactile sensors and grippers for robots.
- Hedwig Maes
CEO of Agidens. Senior executive with 30+ years of international experience.
- Heico Sandee
Founder and Co-CEO/CTO of Smart Robotics, a Dutch robotics company specializing in AI-driven warehouse automation.
- Heidi Wood
Vice President, Chief Digital & Transformation Officer at [L3Harris](/companies/l3harris), leading the LHX NeXt enterprise transformation initiative and global ...
- Heinrich Ehrhardt
Founder of Rheinmetall, the German defense and automotive components manufacturer.
- Helen Greiner
Co-founder of iRobot (1990) and CyPhy Works (2008, creators of the EASE robot, later renamed Aria Insights). Born in England, immigrated to the U.S. in 1972. Ho...
- Helen Oleynikova
Robotics veteran with 15 years across Willow Garage, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ETH Zürich. Holds a PhD from ETH Zürich in mapping and planning for cluttere...
- Helena Hedblom
CEO of Epiroc, a Swedish mining and infrastructure equipment company developing autonomous mining machines and drilling rigs.
- Hélène Huby
Founder and CEO of [The Exploration Company](/companies/exploration-company), a European aerospace startup building Nyx, a reusable modular space capsule for ca...
- Hemant Taneja
Managing Director at General Catalyst. 13 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Hemanth Manjunatha
Assistant Professor of MAE at OSU; Director iHuman Lab. Neuroadaptive control, BCI for robotics.
- 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...
- Henner Böttcher
Member of the CLAAS Group Executive Board since November 2021 and CFO since January 2022. Previously CFO of Lehigh Hanson (Heidelberg Cement North American arm)...
- Henny Admoni
Carnegie Mellon University professor and director of the Human And Robot Partners Lab; expert in assistive robot manipulation
- Henri Lee
CEO of Xpanner.
- Henri Ziegler
Co-founder of Airbus.
- 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.
- Henrique Nery
Co-founder of Automni.
- Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company.
- Henry Hu
Founder and CEO of Cafe X, founded in 2014. Pioneered robotic coffee bars and pivoted from retail stores to airport locations.
- Henry Li
Co-founder and CEO of Neuvition, a Santa Clara-based solid-state LiDAR company founded in 2016. Neuvition provides LiDAR sensors and camera products for autonom...
- Henry Medeiros
Assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Marquette. Awarded a NIST grant for vision-based manipulation by mobile robots in manufacturing, a...
- Henry Nicholas III
Co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. Billionaire philanthropist who built Broadcom into a major semiconductor company.
- Henry Olgers
Co-founder and Head of Manufacturing at Deterrence. Previously team lead for 4680 battery cell manufacturing at Tesla.
- Henry Samueli
American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist; co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. Born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York. Co-founded Broa...
- Henry Taub
Henry Taub founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in 1949 as an early pioneer of the human capital management industry; the company is now led by CEO Maria Bla...
- Henry Unterreiner
Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Hyperion Robotics. A chartered structural engineer with over eight years designing and delivering world-class projects at ...
- Henry Wells
Co-founder of American Express.
- Heo Myeong-seon
Co-founder and Executive Director at Autonomous A2Z. Overall management of autonomous driving fusion technology development.
- Heonchul Dae
Founder and CEO of DEEPX. AI semiconductor company democratizing AI at the edge.
- 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 Henry Dow
Founder of Dow Chemical.
- Herbert Rubens
Founder and CEO of Persistent Systems, leading the company's MANET technology development for defense and government markets since 2007.
- Hermann Haraldsson
Co-founder and CEO of Boozt Group. Has been CEO since 2011, leading the Nordic fashion e-commerce company through growth and expansion.
- Hermann Stäubli
Swiss industrialist who co-founded Stäubli in 1892 with Rudolph Schelling as Schelling & Stäubli, originally a dobby loom workshop in Horgen, Switzerland. The c...
- Hernan Farace
CEO of Belltown Power U.S. with over 15 years of experience in renewable energy development.
- Herve Derrey
Chief Executive Officer of Thales Alenia Space. President and CEO of the joint venture between Thales and Leonardo.
- Hessam Maleki
Head of Locomanipulation at Humanoid AI. 17 years in robotics, formerly Director of R&D Programs at Sanctuary AI where he led Phoenix humanoid development.
- Heyo K. Kroemer
CEO of Charite Berlin (University Medicine).
- Hideki Ochiai
Executive Officer, Executive Vice President of NSK Ltd. Head of Automotive Business Division HQ and Automotive Sales & Marketing Division HQ. Born 1964.
- Hidenori Rivers
President and CEO of Bureau Veritas.
- Hidetoshi Shibata
President and CEO of Renesas Electronics Corporation since July 2019.
- Hideyuki Fujisawa
Founder & CEO of Archelis Inc. Founded 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. Pioneering wearable exoskeleton company specializing in lower-limb support for standing work.
- Hillel Chiel
Professor of Biology, Neurosciences, and Biomedical Engineering at CWRU. Co-leads the M NSF NeuroNex project on neuromechanical systems with Roger Quinn.
- Hinda Gharbi
CEO of Bureau Veritas since June 2023. Leading the global testing inspection and certification group.
- Hiroaki Kitano
AI researcher at Sony, led the AIBO robotic dog project. President of Sony Computer Science Laboratories.
- Hirokazu Hamada
Representative Director, President, and Group CEO of Anritsu Corporation.
- Hiroki Koga
Co-founder and CEO of Oishii, a vertical farming company using automated robotics for strawberry cultivation.
- Hiroki Totoki
Executive at Sony, leading strategic and financial operations.
- Hiromichi Fujimoto
Founder and President of [ATOUN](/companies/atoun), a Panasonic in-house venture established in 2003 to develop powered-wear exoskeletons. Conceived the arms su...
- Hironobu Tamba
Hironobu Tamba is CEO at Noetra.
- Hiroo Honma
CEO of Nachi-Fujikoshi, a Japanese industrial machinery company providing robotics, bearings, and hydraulic equipment.
- Hiroshi Ide
President and CEO of IHI Corporation since June 2020.
- Hiroshi Ishiguro
Professor at Osaka University and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory; creator of Geminoid ultra-realistic androids
- Hiroshi Kanezawa
Executive Officer and Vice President of the Mining Business Unit at Hitachi Construction Machinery. Leads the Rio Tinto remote excavator collaboration and auton...
- Hiroshi Murao
President and Chief Executive Officer of Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing (Kawasaki Rail Car). Part of Kawasaki Heavy Industries group.
- Hiroshi Ogasawara
Executive at Yaskawa Electric, leading robotics and automation divisions.
- Hiroshi Taguchi
Founder of [MISUMI Group](/companies/misumi), the Japanese industrial parts supplier and digital procurement platform. Serves as Special Advisor to the company.
- Hiroshi Yamakawa
President of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) since 2018. Previously served at ISAS and JAXA in various engineering and leadership roles.
- Hiroya Masuoka
CEO and founder of Highlanders Inc., a University of Tokyo spinout developing humanoid robots and the Kepler AI foundation model for physical intelligence. Prev...
- Hiroyasu Iwata
Professor at Waseda University. Obtained Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. Research focu...
- Hiroyuki Yoshimoto
President of Nidec Corporation, appointed in 2018 — the first person to hold the post after founder Shigenobu Nagamori, who had served as president since the co...
- Hisashi Taniguchi
Founder and CEO of ZMP Inc., established in 2001. Leading Japanese autonomous driving and robotics company, partnering with Tokyo taxi firms.
- Hitomi Uematsu
Founder of SkyMagic, a drone show and entertainment company developing autonomous drone swarm choreography.
- Hitoshi Nara
Executive Chairperson of Yokogawa Electric Corporation since April 2025.
- Hitoshi Ozaki
President of Hokuyo Automatic Co., Ltd., leading the company's LiDAR and sensor automation business. Quoted in the 2022 Lumotive partnership announcement endors...
- Hjalmar Nilsonne
Swedish serial entrepreneur and engineer specializing in energy systems and machine learning. Co-founder and CEO of Neko Health, the Stockholm-based health-tech...
- Hjalmar Winbladh
Swedish serial entrepreneur and investor (b. 1968). Co-founder of Epidemic Sound and a founding partner of EQT Ventures. Co-founder of Neko Health, the preventi...
- Ho Ching
CEO of Temasek Holdings. 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Hock E. Tan
Malaysian-born American business executive, President and CEO of Broadcom Inc. since March 2006. Born Tan Hock Eng in 1951/1952 in Penang, Malaya; naturalized U...
- Hock Tan
President & CEO of Broadcom since 2006. One of tech's most dynamic leaders. Leading Broadcom's AI chip strategy and semiconductor expansion.
- Hod Lipson
Columbia University professor and director of the Creative Machines Lab; pioneer in self-aware robots and evolutionary robotics
- 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...
- Hong Euntaek
CEO Kakao. Korean tech ecosystem investor.
- Horace William Heyman
American electrical engineer (1912–1998) who founded Sevcon in 1961 to develop semiconductor-controlled rectifier (SCR) motor controllers for electric vehicles....
- Horst Julius Pudwill
German-born entrepreneur; co-founded Techtronic Industries (TTI) in 1985. Served as Chairman & CEO 1985–2008, then Executive Chairman.
- Hossein Fateh
CEO of CloudHQ.
- Hou Cong
Co-founder and CTO of QCraft. Leads QCraft's autonomous driving compute platform work, including the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-based robotaxi deployment.
- 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 Hughes Sr
Founder of Baker Hughes (Hughes Tool Company).
- Howard Morgan
Board member of Apptronik; Chair and General Partner at B Capital and co-founder of First Round Capital.
- 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 Robard Hughes Sr
Founder of Hughes Tool Company co-predecessor of Baker Hughes.
- Howard Vollum
American electronics engineer and co-founder of Tektronix in 1946. Developed the Type 511 oscilloscope, revolutionizing oscilloscope design, and served as presi...
- Howard Wood
Co-founder of Charter Communications.
- Howard Wu
Co-founder and CEO of Antobot. Previously worked on embedded systems. Based at the Chelmsford Arise Innovation Hub.
- Howie Li
Founder and CEO of RayNeo, a Shenzhen-based augmented reality (AR) glasses developer incubated by TCL Electronics and spun off in 2021. He has led RayNeo throug...
- Hu Debo
Founder and CEO of Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics); building general-purpose humanoid robots backed by major Chinese tech investors
- Hu Wangming
Chairman of China Baowu Steel Group Corp. ([Baowu](/companies/baosteel)), the world's largest steel enterprise by output, headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in...
- 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,...
- Hu Zeyu
Chairman of Zotye Auto since 2023. Also known as Ryan Hu.
- Hua-yang Xu
Founder and CEO of RobotPlusPlus, leading developer of working-at-height robots for industrial maintenance. PhD in robotics.
- Huang Dinan
Chairman and CEO of Shanghai Electric Group a major Chinese power generation and industrial equipment manufacturer.
- Huang Guan
Founder and CEO of GigaAI (极佳视界). PhD in automation from Tsinghua University. Leading GigaAI's development of embodied AI world models and general-purpose human...
- Huang Jueshen
CTO of SLAMTEC, leading the technical development of SLAM navigation and perception algorithms.
- Huang Junping
Founder and CEO of Geneinno, a Shenzhen-based underwater drone company established in 2013. Leads development of consumer and professional ROVs including the Ti...
- 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...
- Huazhe Xu
CEO of PokeBot.
- Hugh Herr
Co-Founder of Dephy, Inc. Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab, where he co-leads the Yang Center for Bionics. Renowned bionics researcher and ...
- Hugo Arntsen
CEO of Boxfish Robotics, a company developing underwater ROVs for inspection and monitoring.
- Hugo Fozzati
Chief Business Officer at Tensor Auto. Previously at Atomico. Babson College alumnus.
- Hugo Sarrazin
French-born business executive, CEO of Udemy since March 2025. Over three decades of experience in technology and automotive sectors.
- Hugo Shong
Founding GP of IDG Capital. 10 robotics/physical AI participations in China.
- Hung Bui
Founder of VinAI.
- Hussain Sajwani
Founder of DAMAC and EDGNEX.
- Hyunggi Cho
Co-founder and CEO of [Phantom AI](/companies/phantom-ai), an autonomous driving startup acquired by [Harbinger Motors](/companies/harbinger-motors). PhD in Ele...
- Iain Percy
CEO of Artemis Technologies.
- Ian Chiu
Matter Venture Partners.
- Ian Cinnamon
Co-founder and CEO of Apex Space. MIT BS and Stanford MBA. Previously co-founded Synapse Technology (AI security, acquired by Palantir in 2020), then worked in ...
- Ian Cohen
Co-founder of Toggle Industries (founded 2016), the automated rebar-fabrication robotics company.
- Ian Hathaway
Partner at the OpenAI Startup Fund since 2021, became sole partner and general partner of the fund in April 2024 after Sam Altman transferred ownership. Previou...
- Ian Hunter
Founder of indiGO Technologies; a technologist with background in autonomous systems and mobility.
- Ian Manchester
Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotics (ACFR) at the University of Sydney. Expert in robot control systems and robust machine learning.
- Ian Muceus
Co-founder and CTO of Firestorm Labs, leading additive manufacturing technology development.
- Ian Parsons
Sales Leader Northern Europe at BD Rowa, advocating for pharmacy automation as a route to profitability through efficient resource management and reduced dispen...
- Ian Walker
Department Head and Professor of EECS at University of Wyoming. Research in robotics, particularly continuum and soft robots, manipulators and manipulation.
- Ido Genosar
Co-founder and CEO of Verobotics (founded 2021), the Israeli maker of AI facade-cleaning/inspection wall-climbing robots.
- Ig-Jae Kim
Director-General of the Artificial Intelligence and Robot Institute at [KIST Robotics](/companies/kist-robotics) since August 2020. Formerly Head of the Center ...
- Igal Raichelgauz
CEO and co-founder of Autobrains Technologies, an AI company developing perception systems for autonomous driving.
- 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 ...
- Igor M. Verner
Professor Emeritus and Head of the Technion Center for Robotics and Digital Technology Education. Leading robotics education research at Technion.
- Igor Martin
CEO of Hydromea. Leads commercial strategy and partnerships for the EXRAY tetherless underwater inspection robot.
- Ikuo Takeda
Founder of Takeda Riken Industries later Advantest.
- Ilan Cohen
Chairman and CEO of Caja Robotics. Goods-to-person warehouse automation. $14.5M annual revenue.
- Ilan Penn
Co-Founder of Chip Motors. Previously at Tier (micromobility), Fantasmo (mapping), and South Park Commons. USC graduate.
- Ilsoo Park
South Korean engineer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Mars Auto (founded 2017), a Seoul-based company developing camera-based autonomous driving technology...
- Ilya Gelfenbeyn
Co-founder of [Inworld AI](/companies/inworld-ai), an AI character engine for interactive NPCs. Previously co-founded and served as CEO of API.AI (later Dialogf...
- Ilyas Khan
Ilyas Khan KSG (born 1962) is a British technologist and businessman, founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing (2014) and founding CEO of Quantinuum, formed by th...
- Imran Chaudhri
Co-founder and former CEO of Humane. Discontinued AI Pin in 2025.
- Inder M. Singh
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of [IonQ](/companies/ionq) since September 2025. Previously served on IonQ's board of directors. A financial...
- Ines Brückel
CFO of Basler AG since January 1, 2026. Previously worked at KPMG and held leading finance positions at large international technology companies.
- 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.
- Irfan Khan
President & Chief Product Officer of SAP Data & Analytics. Leads SAP's data and analytics product strategy, including SAP Business Data Cloud, the data foundati...
- Irving Fain
Founder and CEO of [Bowery Farming](/companies/bowery-farming), once the largest vertical farming company in the US, which he founded in 2015 in New York City. ...
- Irwin Jacobs
Co-founder of Qualcomm.
- Isaac Roberts
Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously co-founded computer-vision startup Replica Labs.
- Isabella Bai (Bai Huiyuan / 白惠源)
Founder and CEO of Infiforce. Former Alibaba VP and global intelligent driving leader. Led Infiforce's CES 2026 appearance and secured CNY 500M in commercial or...
- Issei Yamamoto
Former shogi AI developer who created Ponanza, the first program to defeat a professional shogi master. University of Tokyo graduate, ex-HEROZ lead engineer. Fo...
- Itay Levitan
Co-founder of Verobotics (founded 2021), the building-facade cleaning and inspection robotics company.
- Ivan Pinney
Founder and CEO of Barrio Resources LLC.
- 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 ...
- Ivan Poupyrev
Founder and CEO of [Archetype AI](/companies/archetype-ai), building Newton, a foundation model for physical world sensor data. Born in Russia, named a Carnegie...
- Ivan Ramirez
Chief Technology Officer; ex-Overstock.com, founder Commerce Interface (acquired by Groupon).
- Ivan Tornos
President and CEO of Zimmer Biomet.
- Ivan Zaitsev
Chief Legal Officer of [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai).
- Ivan Zhao
Co-founder and CEO of Notion.
- Ivo Boscarol
Slovenian aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (born 1956) who founded Pipistrel in 1989 as the first private aircraft producer in the Balkans. A 7-time national h...
- Ivo Jurek
Chief Executive Officer of Gates Corporation, a global provider of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. He joined Gates as CEO in ...
- Ivor Jarman
Co-founder of [Halcyon Robotics](/companies/halcyon-robotics), a San Francisco-based startup building dexterous robot hands for humanoid robots. Listed as Execu...
- J. Alex Thomasson
Professor and Founding Director of Mississippi State University's Agricultural Autonomy Institute (AAI), established June 2023. Endowed Chair in Agricultural an...
- J. Kenneth Stringer III
Executive linked to registry companies.
- J. Larry Jameson
President of University of Pennsylvania.
- J. Neal Blue
Chairman and CEO of General Atomics, the parent company of GA-ASI. Purchased General Atomics with brother Linden Blue in 1986.
- J. Robert Beyster
American nuclear physicist and entrepreneur who founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 1969, building it into an $8 billion employee-o...
- J. Todd Raymond
J. Todd Raymond is CEO & Managing Director of 1547 Critical Systems Realty, a data center real estate development company focused on acquiring and developing mi...
- J.R. Pitt Hyde III
Founder of AutoZone.
- J.R. Pitt Hyde III
Founder of AutoZone.
- J.R. Sloan
Assistant Director and State CIO of Arizona ASET.
- Jaakko Happonen
Founder of Trombia Technologies (parent Snowek Oy), the Finnish maker of the Trombia Free autonomous street sweeper.
- Jack Chen
CEO of Creality, a Chinese 3D printer manufacturer known for affordable consumer and professional 3D printing systems.
- Jack Little
Co-founder, CEO and President of [MathWorks](/companies/mathworks-robotics), the company behind MATLAB and Simulink. Encountered MATLAB while a graduate student...
- Jack Ma
Founder of Alibaba Group (1999). Born Ma Yun in Hangzhou, China (1964). Former English teacher who founded China's largest e-commerce platform with 18 co-founde...
- 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 Oswald
Founder and CEO of Singularity, a defense technology company building low-cost air defense interceptors at scale. Studied Aerospace Engineering at MIT, worked a...
- Jack Sordoni
Jack Sordoni is the founder of 4-3 Consulting/Glen Brook Group, a data center development company that has organized major data center projects including a $1.2...
- Jack Xu
Co-founder of Proception. University of Waterloo TRON alum, previously at Atlassian. YC W25 batch.
- Jack Yang
Co-founder of [Sancho Robotics](/companies/sancho-robotics), building a robotic workforce for advanced manufacturing. Previously a senior software engineer at [...
- Jackie Wu
Co-founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), maker of the Corvus One fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone.
- Jacob Balaj
Jacob Balaj is the Co-founder & CTO of Hop Aero (YC S26). US Marine Corps (MV-22 avionics) → SpaceX (Falcon 9/Heavy, built booster refurbishment program) → Virg...
- Jacob George
Assistant Professor at University of Utah Robotics Center. 2025 recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award. Research in head-mounted robotics for eye surgery.
- 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.
- Jacob Manevich
Managing Member of Cranes Corner Data Center LLC.
- Jacob Robinson
Co-founder and CEO of [Motif Neurotech](/companies/motif-neurotech), a Houston-based therapeutic brain-computer-interface company developing an implantable BCI ...
- Jacques Saadé
Jacques R. Saadé (1937–2018) was a Lebanese-born French businessman who founded CMA (Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement) in Marseille in 1978 with a single ship, ...
- Jae Kwon Han
Professor of Robotics Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA and founder/CTO of AeiROBOT, which was spun off from the HERoEHS robotics lab. He completed his do...
- Jae Son
CEO of Pressure Profile Systems.
- Jaehoon Chang
Vice Chair of Hyundai Motor Group since January 2025; previously President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company (2020–2024). Oversees Group-wide synergy across mobi...
- 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...
- Jahangir Doongaji
CEO of Hilti, a Liechtenstein company providing tools, software, and services for the construction industry including robotic total stations.
- Jaime Duarte
Director of Products at Hexagon Robotics, leading product development for the AEON humanoid platform.
- Jaime Fernández Fisac
Jaime Fernández Fisac is a co-founder of Vault Robotics and an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, where he dire...
- Jaime Montemayor
Chief Digital, Technology & Transformation Officer at [General Mills](/companies/general-mills), leading IT, Digital, Data & Analytics, Cybersecurity, the Trans...
- Jaisimha Rao
Founder and CEO of Niqo Robotics. Former BlackRock investment professional who managed billions during the 2008 financial crisis before returning to India to fo...
- Jake Abbott
Director of the University of Utah Robotics Center. Research in robotics and engineering.
- Jake Dyson
Son of James Dyson and executive at Dyson, leading lighting product development.
- Jake Loosararian
Co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA), which develops robots for inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure (power plants, refineries...
- Jake Mills
CTO of Agile Space, developing aerospace propulsion systems.
- Jake Rawson
Head of Business Development at ZeroAlpha Solutions Ltd, responsible for the company's expeditionary energy and power management systems for military applicatio...
- Jakob Carnemark
Co-founder of Aligned Data Centers (co-founded 2013). Pioneered adaptive and sustainable data center infrastructure.
- 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.
- Jakub Czakon
Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025. Previously focused on ML and MLOps content and community.
- Jakub Jankowski
CEO of Inter IKEA Group since January 2026.
- Jakub Jankowski
CEO of Inter IKEA Group from January 2026.
- Jakub Lubonski
CEO of Bin-e. Polish AI-driven smart waste sorting company. IoT device that recognises, sorts, and compresses waste automatically.
- James Anderson
Former partner at Baillie Gifford. 10 robotics participations including major holdings in autonomous vehicle companies.
- James C. Kennedy
Chairman Emeritus of Cox Enterprises; grandson of founder James M. Cox. Served as CEO and Chairman from 1988.
- James Cordle
Co-founder of Standard Bots.
- James Crowell
Founder and CEO of [Crow Industries](/companies/crow-industries), a Scottsdale, Arizona-based robotics startup building the Fenris Group 2 unmanned ground vehic...
- James Dampney
Senior Vice President of Product at Hexagon Mining.
- James Dyson
Founder of Dyson Ltd, the British technology company known for vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and air purifiers. Pioneered cyclonic separation technology.
- James E. Davis
31st President of University of Texas at Austin.
- James Emerick
Co-founder and CEO of [Cosmic Robotics](/companies/cosmic-robotics). Grew up on construction sites, then spent his career bringing robots to the field with Buil...
- James English
President and CTO of Energid Technologies, co-founder. PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Previously held R&D positions at Raytheon and MAK T...
- James F. Dicke II
Chairman and CEO of Crown Equipment Corporation.
- James Flynn
CEO Deerfield Management. Healthcare focused.
- James Ford Bell
American business leader and philanthropist (1879-1961) who founded General Mills in 1928 by consolidating Washburn-Crosby with other regional mills. Served as ...
- James Hennessey
Founder and CEO of Hypermile, a London-based Y Combinator (S20) startup developing a retrofittable AI driver co-pilot (Hypermile Co-Pilot) that reduces diesel t...
- James Jeffries
President of Cirrus Data Services, a subsidiary of Gardner Company providing wholesale and hyperscale colocation data center services in Salt Lake City.
- James Jordan
Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.
- James Keane
CEO of Greenroom Robotics, an Australian robotics company developing maritime and subsea autonomous systems.
- 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 Mackey
CEO of NHS England.
- James McClearen
Co-founder and CTO of blueflite. Engineer with 20 years of experience in automotive and defense industries. Previously Chief Engineer at AVL and at a defense su...
- James Ouyang
Co-founder and CTO of Anycubic. Ph.D. from the University of Auckland. Childhood friend of founder Lu Ouyang.
- James P. Zallie
President and CEO of Ingredion.
- James P. Zallie
President and CEO of Ingredion also Chairman of the Board.
- James Park
Co-founder and former CEO of Fitbit. Led company through IPO and Google $2.1B acquisition. Left Google in 2023.
- James R. Scapa
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Altair Engineering. Pioneered convergence of AI, simulation, and HPC. Siemens announced acquisition of Altair in 2024.
- James Robbins
James Robbins is Founder at The Robbins Company; co-founder of The Robbins Company.
- James Robertson
Founder of Invert Robotics, a Christchurch, New Zealand company providing remote robotic inspection services for industrial tanks and non-magnetic surfaces.
- James Sherman
CPA and CFO of ZenaTech. 30 years as a Certified Public Accountant, honors graduate from Northern Illinois University. Former Acting Treasurer for a .5B divisio...
- James Slider
Chief Executive Officer of Performance Drone Works (PDW), a U.S. defense drone manufacturer. Stepped into the CEO role after serving as the company's Chief Oper...
- James Taiclet
Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin (parent of Lockheed Martin Space).
- James Trout
Founder and CEO of CleanArc Data Centers, a developer of renewables-focused hyperscale data center campuses. Previously CEO at Digital Realty CoreSite and Vanta...
- James Walton
Co-founder and CEO of [Earendil Robotics](/companies/earendil-robotics), a Y Combinator (S26) counter-UAS defense company. Former British Army UAS specialist wi...
- 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 Yang
SAE and ASME Fellow; research in biomechanics, human modeling/simulation, human-robot interaction; funded by US Army, DOD, DOE, NSF, NIOSH, Honda R&D; NSF-funde...
- 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...
- Jameson Detweiler
Founder and CEO of Chip Motors, developing the Chip Life Utility Vehicle (LUV) in Miami. Plans to add autonomous driving features including self-parking and err...
- Jamey Jacob
Regents Professor of MAE at OSU; Executive Director OAIRE. UAV design, counter-UAS, ~0M funded research.
- Jamie Farmer
Co-Founder and President of Circe Energy, a developer of behind-the-meter power and powered shell infrastructure for AI HPC and mission-critical applications.
- Jamie France
CEO and Founder of Outlier Space, developing space infrastructure technology
- Jamie Iannone
CEO and President of eBay, a global e-commerce marketplace.
- Jamie McAvity
Founder and CEO of Cormint Data Systems, a West Texas–based Bitcoin mining company. Former commodities and derivatives trader; previously helped scale real esta...
- Jamie Rosenblatt
Partner at [Golden Ventures](/investors/golden-ventures), working closely with portfolio founders, entrepreneurs, accelerators, incubators, and the broader star...
- 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 ...
- Jamie Wedderburn
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ulysses, building autonomous maritime vehicles for ocean stewardship and defense. One of three Irish founders and a S...
- Jamnalal Bajaj
Founder of Bajaj Group and Bajaj Auto.
- Jamnalal Bajaj
Founder of Bajaj Auto.
- Jan Becker
CEO and Co-founder of [Apex.AI](/companies/apex-ai), a company building safety-certified software foundations for autonomous mobility (apex.OS, apex.Middleware)...
- Jan Brockmann
CEO of Bosch Home Comfort Group (Buderus).
- Jan Goetgeluk
Founder and CEO of Virtuix Holdings (NASDAQ: VTIX). Holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium...
- Jan Harnisch
Global CEO of Rhenus Air & Ocean since 2022. Joined Rhenus in 2012; held leadership roles at both global and regional levels, including Global COO from 2020.
- Jan Hnizdo
CEO of Teraco Data Environments, Africa's largest carrier-neutral data center operator. Joined Teraco as CFO in 2011, appointed CEO in 2019. Teraco was acquired...
- Jan Liebherr
CEO of Liebherr Group.
- Jan Peters
Head of Intelligent Autonomous Systems at TU Darmstadt.
- 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 Zuurbier
CEO of Swisslog since July 2025. Over 30 years of leadership in robotics, healthcare, and ICT. Joined KUKA Group in 2019, held senior roles in Swisslog Healthca...
- Jan-Hendrik Mohr
German executive and graduate engineer (BA) who has been with the CLAAS Group since 1984, taking on increasing responsibilities over four decades. He was appoin...
- Jana Tian
Co-founder and CEO of [Upside Robotics](/companies/upside-robotics), a Waterloo, Ontario ag-tech startup building autonomous solar-powered robots for precision ...
- Jandon Zhang
CEO of iSAGEBOT (Shanghai iSAGE Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.), a leading solution provider of AI mobile robots founded in 2019. Honored with the 2026 SJTU O...
- Jane Fraser
Chair and CEO of Citigroup since March 2021. Named Chair of the Board in October 2025. British-American banking executive.
- Jane Mooney
Co-founder of [Collaborative Robotics](/companies/collaborative-robotics) (brand name Cobot), a Santa Clara-based robotics company founded in 2022 by former Ama...
- Janene Asgeirsson
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Analog Devices, Inc.
- Janet Jiaxiang Dong
Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering and director of the Center for Robotics Research at UC's College of Engineering...
- Janice Dupré Little
Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Lowe's Companies, Inc. Responsible for global HR strategy, practices, and operations. Previously VP of Diversity an...
- Janne Hietala
CEO of Kelluu, a Finnish technology company operating autonomous airships for aerial intelligence.
- Jarad Cannon
Chief Technology Officer of [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai). Over 13 years in robotics and AI, having led multiple zero-to-one programs and helped turn early...
- 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.
- Jarrett Appleby
Data Center Strategy Consultant & Senior Advisor at PowerHouse Data Centers. Former COO of Digital Realty and Coresite, and CMO of Equinix.
- Jasen Wang (Wang Jianjun)
Founder & CEO of [Makeblock](/companies/makeblock), a Shenzhen-based educational robotics company founded in 2012. Jasen Wang (Wang Jianjun) earned a Master's d...
- Jason Andrews
American space and technology entrepreneur who founded [BlackSky](/companies/blacksky) Global LLC in 2013 as a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries to build a c...
- Jason Ballard
Co-founder and CEO of ICON, a construction-3D-printing company in Austin, TX. Founded 2017.
- Jason Chen
Founder and former CEO of DIH Holding US. Founded DIH Technology Ltd in 2014. Led the company through its SPAC merger in February 2024. Resigned as CEO on Novem...
- Jason Chen
CEO and Founder of DIH Medical, developing robotic rehabilitation and medical automation systems
- Jason Chen
Chairman & CEO of Acer Inc. since 2014. Taiwanese electronics company. Former IBM Taiwan and TSMC executive.
- Jason Chen
CEO of Acer.
- 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 Kridner
President and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org.
- Jason Long
Chief Executive Officer and Director of LandBridge Company LLC. A native of West Texas and an oil and gas entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience fou...
- 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.
- Jason Stanley
Chief Operating Officer of Cellula Robotics, appointed November 2025. Brings over three decades of subsea robotics leadership, including senior roles at Schilli...
- Jason W. Adkins
CEO of Bluebird Fiber (formerly Bluebird Network), appointed March 2024. Previously served as CEO of Unite Private Networks.
- Jason W. Aiken
Executive Vice President, Combat and Mission Systems at General Dynamics.
- Jason Walker
Co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Robotics. Led the company through its acquisition by Locus Robotics in 2022.
- Jason Wang
CEO of United Microelectronics (UMC).
- Jason Warner
Co-founder and CEO of Poolside. Former CTO of GitHub (2019-2022), where he incubated GitHub Copilot. Founded Poolside in May 2023 to build AI foundation models ...
- Jason Winkler
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Motorola Solutions, responsible for the company's financial operations.
- Jason Zhang
Founder of Applied Digital Corporation.
- Javier Alonso Mora
Professor and Director of Cognitive Robotics at TU Delft.
- Javier Carrillo
CEO of Mecalux.
- Javier López
CEO of Decathlon, a global sporting goods retailer.
- Javier Martínez Ojinaga
Javier Martínez Ojinaga is an economist and lawyer who has served as CEO of CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles), the Spanish rail company, since Se...
- Javier Pujol Artigas
CEO of Ficosa, an automotive electronic technology and software company headquartered in Barcelona.
- Javier Pujol Artigas
CEO of Ficosa.
- Javier Reyes
Chancellor of UMass Amherst.
- Javier Roa
Manager at Technaid S.L. Represents Technaid at international exoskeleton and neurorehabilitation conferences including ICNR, ICRA, SSNR, and ReWalk industry ev...
- Jay Adelson
Co-founder of Equinix.
- Jay Kim
Samsung EVP of Mobile Business. Led public hints about Samsung AI smart glasses at MWC 2026. Device will launch 2026 with camera at eye level and Galaxy ecosyst...
- 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.
- Jay Xiao
Founder and CEO of Tensor Auto (formerly AutoX). Led the company from robotaxi operations to personal robocar development. Holds California's second-ever driver...
- Jay Yang
Chief Architect at Lightwheel, leading simulation platform development.
- Jayakrishnan T
Founder and CEO of Asimov Robotics, a top 10 robotics company in India. Acquired by Zoho Corporation for deeptech R&D.
- Jayden Wei
CEO of Mammotion, founded by former DJI engineers specializing in robotics and autonomous navigation.
- 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 Liu
Co-founder and former President of Didi Chuxing. Stepped down from president and board roles in May 2024 after a decade; remains as Permanent Partner and Chief ...
- Jean Nehme
Founder and CEO of Digital Surgery, a surgical technology company acquired by Medtronic.
- Jean-François Duval
Co-Founder and CTO of Dephy, Inc. Co-founded Dephy with Luke Mooney, spun out of MIT Media Lab research on powered ankle exoskeletons.
- Jean-Francois Guiderdoni
Co-founder of ACWA Robotics. Founded the company in 2018 alongside Jean-Francois Rossi.
- Jean-Francois Rossi
Co-founder of ACWA Robotics. Founded the company in 2018 in Ajaccio, Corsica to develop autonomous robots for drinking water pipeline inspection.
- Jean-Luc Maria
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Exotrail. Former CTO who succeeded David Henri as CEO in October 2021 to lead the company's hypergrowth phase.
- Jean-Marc Brunschwig
Co-CEO of PAZZI (formerly EKIM), the French robotic-pizza restaurant startup, under new Swiss ownership by JMEB Invest Holding following PAZZI's 2022 liquidatio...
- Jean-Marc Chery
President and CEO of STMicroelectronics since May 2018.
- Jean-Michael Georg
Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous-electric terminal-tractor company.
- Jean-Michel Renaudie
President of Global Automotive for TE Connectivity, a $7 billion business providing connectivity solutions to OEMs and their suppliers. Joined TE in August 2020...
- Jean-Paul Alary
CEO of KNDS, a European defense company developing armored vehicles and military robotics systems.
- Jeannette Bohg
Stanford professor and director of the Interactive Perception and Robot Learning Lab; expert in robotic manipulation and perception
- Jeannette zu Fuerstenberg
Board director of Helsing; President and Managing Director for Europe at General Catalyst and founder of La Famiglia VC.
- Jed McCaleb
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur and founder of Vast Space. Previously founded Ripple, Mt. Gox, and Stellar. Self-funded Vast from 2021 until the company's first out...
- Jeff Anderson
CEO of Eddyfi Technologies.
- 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 Harmening
Chairman and CEO of [General Mills](/companies/general-mills), a leading global food company. Joined General Mills in 1994 and became CEO on June 1, 2017, addin...
- Jeff Huckaby
President and CEO of Grimmway Farms (Grimmway Produce Group) until March 2026, transitioning to Chief Agricultural Officer. Led the company since 2015.
- Jeff Linnell
Founder and CEO of Formant, a cloud robotics data platform. Previously founded Bot & Dolly (acquired by Google) and served as Director of Robotics at Google X.
- Jeff Lotz
Co-founder of Deep Trekker (founded 2010), the underwater-ROV company.
- Jeff Sprecher
Founder of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
- Jeff Tate
Chief Financial Officer of Dow Inc. Responsible for the company's finance function including controllership, treasury, tax, and investor relations.
- Jeff Uphues
CEO of DC BLOX, a digital infrastructure and data center provider in the Southeast US.
- Jeff Zygler
Founder and CEO of Active Infrastructure, a national data center and digital infrastructure developer and owner. Over 15 years of institutional real estate expe...
- Jeffery M. Watts
CEO of Fastenal, succeeding Daniel Florness in December 2025. Previously served as President and Chief Sales Officer.
- Jeffrey C. Hines
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Hines. Son of founder Gerald D. Hines. Became president in 1990, Chairman & CEO in 2020.
- Jeffrey Clay
Co-founder of Belltown Power Texas and COO, leading the company's data center development business with deep expertise in the ERCOT grid.
- Jeffrey Goldberger
Co-founder and Principal of Atlas Capital Group, a real estate investment firm founded in 2006.
- Jeffrey Libshutz
Jeffrey Libshutz is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Jeffrey M. Stevens
Jeffrey M. Stevens is President of ENSCO, Inc. and its five wholly owned subsidiaries, leading 750+ employees and over 190 million USD in annual revenue. A 23-y...
- Jeffrey Springborn
CEO of Colovore.
- 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...
- Jennifer Mnookin
President of Columbia University effective July 2026.
- Jennifer Parmentier
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Parker Hannifin Corporation since January 2023.
- Jennifer Wuamett
Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Leads sustainability and ESG strategy.
- Jenny Duan
Co-founder and CEO of Clair Health, a women's health technology company. Stanford University alumna; founded Clair Health at age 21 focusing on women's health a...
- Jenny Lee
Glory Ventures. Cross-border.
- Jens H. Lund
Group CEO of DSV, a global transport and logistics company.
- Jens Hinrichsen
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Automotive Processing and Systems at NXP Semiconductors. Leads NXP's automotive processing business.
- 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.
- Jens Vest Warming
Founder of FarmDroid, a Danish agricultural robotics company developing autonomous seeding and weeding robots.
- Jeonil Moon
CEO of RoboCare, the South Korean care robotics company behind the SILBOT, BOMI, and DORI robot series. Leads the company's mission to provide emotional, mental...
- Jerald Kent
Co-founder of Charter Communications.
- Jere W. Morehead
President of the University of Georgia since July 2013.
- Jeremy O'Brien
Co-founder and CEO of PsiQuantum. Former professor of physics at the University of Bristol, where he pioneered photonic quantum computing.
- Jeremy Pease
CEO of Aptum, a global provider of managed services and cloud advisory. Succeeded Ian Rae.
- Jeremy Searock
Co-founder and CTO of Advanced Construction Robotics, developing autonomous construction robots.
- Jeroen Dekker
Founder of Active Ants.
- Jerome Increase Case
Founder of Case Corporation (1842), a leading American agricultural equipment manufacturer. Pioneered the steam-powered threshing machine.
- Jerome Monceaux
CEO of Enchanted Tools, a French robotics company developing humanoid companion robots for healthcare and hospitality.
- Jerome Vaganay
Co-founder and CTO of Square Robot. Former Director of Inspection Systems at Bluefin Robotics, hired in 2001 as an underwater navigation specialist. Holds a doc...
- Jerry Chen
Surgeon and serial entrepreneur. Founded Brain Navi Biotechnology in 2015 to develop robotic surgical navigation technology.
- Jerry Fan
Global Head of Regional Sales and President of ADI Asia at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Jerry Ferguson
Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.
- Jerry Moyers
President and CEO of Yazaki North America.
- 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.
- Jerry Sanders
Founder of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices founded 1969). Former Fairchild Semiconductor executive who led the company through decades of semiconductor innovation.
- Jerry Tang
Jerry Tang is CEO of AIB Data Centers Inc., an AI data center company traded on the NYSE American exchange, leading the company's transformation and expansion i...
- Jerry Tang
CEO and co-founder of AIB Data Centers Inc.
- Jesse Coors-Blankenship
Co-founder and General Partner of Parkway Venture Capital, a firm investing in AI, robotics, and deep-tech. Previously founded Frustum Inc, an AI generative-des...
- Jesse Hoagg
Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Researcher in the NSF-funded CLOUDMAP program for atmospheric...
- Jesse Lyu
Founder of Rabbit Inc.
- Jesse Singh
CEO of The AZEK Company from June 2016; appointed CEO of Fortune Brands Innovations in 2025. Previously held senior leadership roles at 3M including President o...
- Jesse Tran
Co-founder and co-CEO of [1Robot](/companies/1robot), a Bay Area robotics startup building software that coordinates people, robots, autonomous vehicles, and AI...
- Jesse Wedler
Parkway Venture Capital. Deep tech.
- Jessy Grizzle
Director of University of Michigan Robotics.
- Jesús Savage Carmona
PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Washington, 1995). Professor at UNAM Department of Electrical Engineering and founder of the Bio-Robotics Laborator...
- Jeyakumar Janakaraj
CEO of AdaniConneX, the 50:50 joint venture between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX targeting 1 GW of data center capacity across India by 2030. 21+ years of e...
- Ji Zhihui
Founder and CEO of GENISOM AI (智元机器人), a Beijing-based full-stack embodied intelligence company founded in December 2023. Under his leadership, GENISOM AI has p...
- Jia Jieyang
Stanford Ph.D. and former CEO of LingMing Photonics. CEO of Gyges Labs, the technology partner behind Halliday's DigiWindow display module.
- Jia Kui
Founder and Chief Scientist of [DexForce Technology](/companies/dexforce), a Chinese robotics firm developing AI perception software that helps robots identify ...
- Jiadong Gong
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of CATL leading the company's International R&D Institute in Hong Kong; materials-science technologist focused on ad...
- Jian Lin
Co-founder, CTO and Chairman of Neuvition, overseeing the company's solid-state LiDAR technology development. Neuvition was founded in 2016 in Santa Clara, CA.
- 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.
- Jianguo Zhao
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. Director, Adaptive Robotics Laboratory. Soft robots, flying/perching robots, reconfigurable robots, artificial musc...
- 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...
- Jiao Guofang
Co-founder of [Biren Technology](/companies/biren-technology). Spent 11 years at [Qualcomm](/companies/qualcomm), leading development of the Adreno mobile GPU a...
- Jiao Jian
President and Director of Sinochem Holdings Corporation Ltd. since March 2023. Previously served as Vice President of China National Chemical Corporation (ChemC...
- Jiaqiang Ye Zhu
Co-founder of THEKER Robotics. Robotics and AI engineer who co-founded THEKER in 2022 with Carla Gómez Cano after competing together in robotics at UPC Barcelon...
- Jide Odunsi
British-Nigerian entrepreneur, co-founder of [Moove](/companies/moove), the world's first mobility fintech. University of Oxford alumna. Previously an investmen...
- Jihan Wu
Renowned blockchain entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain in 2013 and established Bitdeer as a spin-off in 2021. First to translate Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whi...
- Jihan Wu
Co-founder of Bitmain and Bitdeer.
- Jihan Wu
Co-founder of Bitmain and Bitdeer.
- Jihan Wu
Co-founder of Bitmain.
- JihFen Lei
Senior Vice President of Teledyne Technologies and President of Defense and Aerospace Group, overseeing Teledyne FLIR defense operations.
- JihFen Lei
Executive and engineer in the technology sector, linked to registry companies.
- Jilea Hemmings
Founder and CEO of Nourish and Bloom Market, the first autonomous grocery store in the United States.
- Jim Adler
Managing director Toyota Ventures.
- Jim Alecxih
Jim Alecxih is CEO of Virtual Incision, leading the company's commercialization of the MIRA miniaturized surgical robotics platform.
- Jim Cannon
President & CEO of AM General. American heavy vehicle manufacturer building HMMWV/Humvee and tactical military vehicles.
- Jim Cantrell
CEO and Co-founder of Phantom Space Corporation, an Arizona-based launch vehicle and satellite company. A founding team member and the first VP of Business Deve...
- Jim Dicke III
President of Crown Equipment Corporation a leading forklift and material handling equipment manufacturer based in New Bremen Ohio.
- Jim Dukhovny
Co-founder & CEO of Alef Aeronautics. Founded in 2015. Building first flying car with 3000+ preorders.
- Jim Ethington
Jim Ethington is the CEO of Arable, joining from The Climate Corporation where he was VP of Product. He leads Arable's growth and product strategy.
- Jim Fan
Senior Research Scientist and lead of embodied AI at NVIDIA; co-lead of Project GR00T humanoid foundation model
- Jim Farley
CEO of Ford Motor Company.
- Jim Fitterling
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dow Inc. (since July 2026). Served as CEO from July 2018 to July 2026 and was elected board chair in April 2020....
- Jim Goetz
Partner at Sequoia Capital. Co-founded VitalSigns (which Sequoia backed) before joining the firm. Led Sequoia's U.S. business from 2012 until 2017, when he was ...
- Jim Hagemann Snabe
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG. Former co-CEO of SAP.
- Jim Jarrell
CEO of Linamar Corporation, a Canadian manufacturing company producing automotive and industrial components including robotics.
- 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 La
President of VinDynamics, a technology company providing AI and robotics solutions for vineyard management.
- Jim Lee
American finance executive serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Target Corporation. Joined Target in September 2024 after more tha...
- Jim Leighton
CEO of Kalera, a vertical farming company. Led the company through its Chapter 11 process and acquisition by 80 Acres Farms in 2025.
- Jim Liefer
CEO of Kindred AI, a robotics company developing autonomous retail fulfillment robots using AI and teleoperation.
- 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...
- Jim Sinegal
Co-founder of Costco Wholesale.
- Jim Tobojka
Senior Vice President of Operations for TE Connectivity. Responsible for all aspects of the company's Integrated Operations Network including procurement, logis...
- Jim Trout
Founder of [Vantage Data Centers](/companies/vantage-data-centers-openai-oracle) (2010, backed by Silver Lake), acquiring Intel's former data center in Santa Cl...
- Jim Walenczak
President of DAF Trucks N.V. since July 1, 2026. Succeeded Harald Seidel.
- Jimmy Gates
Jimmy Gates serves as CEO of Microhard Systems Inc., a Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of long-range wireless data equipment serving industrial, military, a...
- Jin Baofang
Chairman and CEO of JA Solar one of the worlds largest solar panel manufacturers. Founded the company and pioneered entry into the PV industry in 1996.
- Jin Ge
Co-founder and CEO of DexTeleop Robotics (灵御智能). Tsinghua University Department of Automation bachelor and Tsinghua SEM MBA. Former managing partner at Yuanjing...
- Jin Tomioka
CEO of Telexistence, a Japanese robotics company developing teleoperated humanoid robots for retail and warehouse applications.
- Jin Yongbin
Jin Yongbin is Founder at MirrorMe Technology; co-founder of MirrorMe Technology.
- Jingdao Chen
Associate Professor at Mississippi State University specializing in robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Director of the RAPTOR Lab. Research...
- Jinhui He
Founder of EP Equipment, a material handling equipment manufacturer.
- Jinsy Jacob
Clinical strategy and FDA pathway.
- Jinwoo Shin
KAIST Chair Professor and Chief Scientist at RLWRLD. Leading the research behind RLDX-1 and the Multi-Stream Action Transformer architecture.
- Jiro Ryuta
President of SUMCO Corporation. Took office as the new president of SUMCO Corporation on March 27, 2026.
- Jo Finnan
Managing Director of TTS Group (Bee-Bot).
- Joachim Schönbeck
CEO of ANDRITZ. Austrian technology group providing automation, robotics, and process engineering. Contract extended until 2032.
- Joan Gabel
Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh.
- Joao Laranjo
Chief Financial Officer (Finance) of Stellantis N.V., member of the Stellantis Leadership Team.
- Joaquin Duato
CEO of Johnson & Johnson since 2023, previously Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee. Oversees the company's MedTech and Innovative Medicine segments.
- Job Rijssenbeek
CTO of [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), leading the technical organization and Licerion® lithium-metal battery development. 20+ years in advanced energy sto...
- Jochen Hanebeck
Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies AG (FWB: IFX, DAX). Member of the Management Board since 2016, CEO since 2022 (appointed until 31 March 2032). ...
- Jochen Rudat
Chief Growth & Revenue Officer of [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai). Leads growth, sales, and customer partnerships. Brings over a decade of experience at Tesl...
- Jochen Thewes
CEO of DB Schenker, a global logistics company.
- 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 Echevarria
Seventh President and CEO of the University of Miami, appointed October 2024. A UM alumnus (class of 1978) and former CEO of Deloitte, he leads over 20,000 prof...
- Joe Figura
Co-founder and CTO of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. MIT aerospace engineer who built and flew communicat...
- Joe Fisher
Co-founder and CEO of Lithium Werks.
- Joe Harris
Founder and CEO of Alloy Robotics. Former Chief Commercial Officer at Eucalyptus, the Sydney telehealth company acquired by Hims & Hers in a deal valued at over...
- Joe Landon
Co-founder and President of Rendezvous Robotics, a Golden, Colorado space infrastructure company commercializing TESSERAE modular self-assembling orbital struct...
- 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 Nelligan
CEO of Molex.
- Joe Pawelski
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CisLunar Industries, a Denver, Colorado-based space manufacturing company developing in-space metal foundries and pow...
- Joe Romano
Head of software at Walden Robotics. Previously worked at Berkshire Grey and Kiva Systems (acquired by Amazon in 2012).
- Joe Turner
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of [Havoc](/companies/havoc), a Providence-based defense technology company building all-domain collaborative autonomy so...
- 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 Becker
CEO of NeuroPace.
- Joel Edwards
Chief Executive Officer of [HeroWear](/companies/herowear), a Nashville-based industrial back-assist exoskeleton company spun out of Vanderbilt University. A se...
- 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.
- Joel Ogren
CEO and Founder of Assured Communications Advisors.
- Johan
CEO of Conjet Group, leading the world's leading specialist in hydrodemolition robots.
- Johan Aman
CEO of Unibap Space Solutions.
- Johan van Jaarsveld
Chief Technical Officer of BHP since March 2024, responsible for Technology, Minerals Exploration, Innovation and Centres of Excellence. Previously BHP Chief De...
- 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...
- Johann Vaillant
Founded Vaillant in 1874 as a master fitter's business in Remscheid, Germany. Patented the first closed-system gas-fired bathroom boiler in 1894.
- Johannes Haas
CEO of noonee GmbH who led the company through its acquisition by Carl Stahl GmbH in June 2024.
- Johannes Schaback
Co-founder and CTO of Stark Defence, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024 that raised EUR500M led by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund at a valua...
- John
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- John A Swanson
Founder of ANSYS.
- 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 Backer
Hardware veteran. Scales robotic deployments.
- John Bowers
UCSB Professor and co-founder of Aurrion, serving as Chairman of the Board. Pioneered heterogeneous silicon photonics integration research at UC Santa Barbara.
- John Burd
Co-founded Dexcom in 1999 and led the development of the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitoring system.
- John Butterfield
Co-founder of American Express.
- 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 Clune
Co-founder and former CEO of Cavern Technologies, an underground data center company acquired by LightEdge in 2021.
- John D Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil predecessor).
- John D. Dulchinos
CEO of Adept Technology before being replaced by Rob Cain in February 2013.
- John Deere
Founder of Deere and Company.
- John Deere
Founder of Deere and Company (1837).
- John Elbon
Interim CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA) since 2025, previously serving as COO. Joined ULA in May 2018 after a 35-year career at Boeing, where he was vice pr...
- John Elkann
Chairman of the Board (Executive Director) of Stellantis N.V. since the merger forming Stellantis in January 2021. Also CEO of Exor N.V. (the Agnelli family hol...
- John Fluke Sr.
Founded Fluke Corporation in 1948 as the John Fluke Engineering Company in Springdale, Connecticut, producing electrical test and measurement equipment.
- John Fowler
CEO of MBody AI.
- John Gehre
Retail industry veteran appointed CEO of Badger Technologies in 2025. Badger Technologies is a product division of Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL).
- John Geisse
American retail pioneer (1920-1992) who founded three successful discount store chains: Target Stores (1962, for the Dayton Company), Venture Stores (1968, for ...
- John Giamatteo
CEO of BlackBerry QNX, providing real-time operating systems for autonomous vehicles and embedded robotics.
- John Gibson
CEO of Nauticus Robotics since September 2023. NASDAQ: KITT. Leading UAE expansion and maritime robotics.
- John Goodson
Co-Founder and CEO of Darkhive, a San Antonio-based defense technology company developing cost-effective autonomous drones.
- John Halpin
Co-founder and Chairman of Beacon Data Centers. Partner at Nadia Partners, a specialist investor in AI and digital infrastructure.
- John Harris
CEO and co-founder of Harbinger Motors, an electric medium-duty commercial vehicle manufacturer in Gardena, California. Holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering a...
- John Hatem
CEO of CyrusOne.
- John Hatem
CEO of CyrusOne (Constellation/Calpine).
- 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 Hill
Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- John Jay Hopkins
Founder of General Dynamics.
- John Jiao
Founder of OMOWAY, a technology company developing autonomous mobility solutions.
- John Jutila
CEO of Tekscan, a global leader of tactile sensor solutions. Previously held CEO positions at Ripley Tools. Over 35 years of leadership experience.
- John Kelly
Executive at IBM, led research and technology strategy at the computing and AI company.
- John Langford
American aerospace entrepreneur; founder and Chairman of Electra.aero (2020), developing sustainable hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft....
- John Lukez
President of LitePoint.
- John Ma
Founder Chairman and CEO of Ronovo Surgical.
- John Markus Lervik
Founder of Cognite AS.
- John Mastrototaro
CEO of Movano Health.
- John Morgan
Head of Manufacturing at Saronic; previously spent ~9 years leading Raptor engine production at SpaceX.
- John Murray-Bruce
Primary research in computational imaging — co-designing imaging sensors and algorithms to reconstruct 3D images of hidden scenes; supported by NSF and DARPA to...
- John Mustin
President of Saildrone; a retired US Navy Vice Admiral and former Chief of Navy Reserve.
- John Pfeifer
President and CEO of Oshkosh Corporation. Previously served as Deputy Commandant for Systems Engineering and Acquisition at the US Marine Corps.
- John Platt
SVP of EPC Transformation at Bechtel, leading the integration of AI, robotics, and digital technologies across project delivery. Overseeing testing of autonomou...
- John Purvis
CEO of Edge Autonomy (formerly UAV Factory), leading the company through its expansion into U.S. Army UAV contracts and production in Huntsville, Alabama. Previ...
- John Rasmussen
Professor John Rasmussen is a professor of biomechanics and robotics at Aalborg University and co-inventor of the CXD spherical hinge mechanism used in Liftya's...
- John Rood
American defense and aerospace executive serving as CEO and Chairman of Momentus since August 2021. Previously U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, with ...
- John S. Jenkins Jr.
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of TE Connectivity. Responsible for global legal, compliance, corporate governance, government affairs, intellectua...
- John Shovic
Research Faculty and Director of the Center for Intelligent Industrial Robotics (CIIR) at University of Idaho. PhD in Electrical Engineering. Leading new AI and...
- John Stankey
John Stankey has led AT&T as CEO and President since July 2020 and was elected Chairman of the Board in February 2025, overseeing the telecom giant's 5G network...
- John Tenet
Founder and CEO of CHAOS Industries. Also co-founded Epirus. Former partner at 8VC.
- John Turner
John Turner has served as Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Energy Solutions since March 2024, and previously served as Chief Financial Officer and President sin...
- John Van Scoter
CEO, President and Director of Solid Power Inc. since June 2023.
- John W Emerson
Founder of Emerson Electric.
- John Walker
Founder of Autodesk.
- John Warnock
Co-founder of Adobe Inc. (founded 1982). Developed the PostScript page description language.
- John Young
Chief Financial Officer of Ambarella since February 2024. Previously VP of Finance at Ambarella (December 2019), corporate controller (March 2017), and principa...
- Johnnie Bryan Hunt
Founder of J.B. Hunt Transport.
- Johnny Carni
Founder and CEO of WaiV Robotics. Previously developed the technology under an R&D entity called Dronelander before launching WaiV Robotics.
- Johnson Zhang
CEO of CHASING Innovation, a Chinese underwater robotics company developing ROVs for consumer and industrial markets.
- Jon Biloh
President of ColoCrossing.
- Jon Damush
CEO of uAvionix.
- Jon Gruen
CEO of Fortem Technologies, a counter-drone defense company. Former Lockheed Martin executive with defense industry experience.
- Jon Imperato
Senior Vice President, Sales and Applications at onsemi.
- Jon Medved
Founder and CEO of OurCrowd. Israel-based VC with robotics/physical AI portfolio.
- Jon Scheumann
CEO of [Robocom Systems International](/companies/robocom-systems), a supply chain execution software company based in Farmingdale, NY. Led the company through ...
- 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.
- Jon Sintorn
CEO of Nilfisk.
- Jon Sintorn
CEO of Nilfisk.
- Jonas Gustavsson
CEO of MacGregor, appointed August 2025.
- Jonas Samuelson
Former President and CEO of AB Electrolux from 2016 to January 2025, with 16 years in the Electrolux Group management team. Previously served as CEO of Major Ap...
- Jonathan Ahdoot
Jonathan Ahdoot was appointed CEO of the newly formed 5C Group when Hypertec Cloud acquired 5C Data Centers, combining cloud computing capabilities with 5C's da...
- Jonathan Bates
Founder of BitMine Immersion Technologies. Former Chairman and CEO.
- Jonathan Jacobi
Co-founder of [Enigma](/companies/enigma), an AI robotics research lab that raised a $71M seed round in July 2026 led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Micr...
- Jonathan Jensen
CEO and Co-Founder of Data Center Power Company.
- Jonathan King
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at [Atom Computing](/companies/atom-computing), leading the applications team responsible for benchmarking and use-case developme...
- Jonathan Levin
President of Stanford University.
- Jonathan Moneymaker
Founder and former CEO of [BlueHalo](/companies/bluehalo), a multi-domain defense technology provider. Led BlueHalo's transformation through internal innovation...
- Jonathan Neman
Co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Leading the Infinite Kitchen automated restaurant initiative. Sold Spyce robotics technology to Wonder for 86.4M.
- Jonathan Ross
Founder and CEO of Groq (2016). Former Google engineer who co-designed the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and created the Language Processing Unit (LPU). Joined N...
- 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...
- Jonathan Shihao Ji
Associate Professor at University of Connecticut, Director of the Intelligent Systems Lab.
- Jonathan Webb
Founder & CEO of AppHarvest. Building high-tech indoor farming in Appalachia, Kentucky. Large-scale controlled environment agriculture.
- Jonathon Ward
Founder of Atlas Development LLC, a full-service data center developer founded in 2017.
- Jong-Myoung Lee
CEO of SKIA, leading the South Korean medtech company's AR surgical guidance platform development and US market expansion.
- Jongsung Park
President, Corporate Strategy & Investment at LIG Nex1. Quoted in Honeywell MOU announcement regarding UAV defense technology collaboration.
- Jonny Miller
Chief Technical Officer and Chief Operating Officer at [IONA](/companies/iona-drones), an autonomous logistics company building tilt-rotor cargo drones for rura...
- Jony Ive
Former Apple Chief Design Officer (designed iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch). Founder of LoveFrom design firm and io hardware startup. Acquired by OpenAI for $6.5B in...
- Joo Sun Choi
President and CEO of Samsung SDI.
- Joo Sun Choi
President and CEO of Samsung SDI.
- Joost van de Weijde
Co-founder and Head of Technology & IP at Rocsys, an autonomous charging company for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets.
- Jordan Sanders
Co-founder and COO of Westmag. Previously spent a decade in robotics with commercial leadership experience at Slip Robotics. Furman University graduate.
- Jorg Rautenstrauch
President and CEO of Kautex Textron Industrial Segment.
- Jorg Rautenstrauch
CEO of Kautex Textron.
- Jorg Stratmann
CEO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems leading the mtu Solutions business based in Friedrichshafen Germany.
- Jorg Trommer
CEO of Hacker Motor GmbH, a German manufacturer of high-performance brushless electric motors and propulsion systems for RC model aviation and UAV/unmanned syst...
- Jorge Aldaco
Robot Builder at Gritt. Previously built Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot and Skydio autonomous drones.
- Jorge Milburn
VP of Sales at 1X Technologies; previously Global Head of Growth at Tesla.
- Jorge Titinger
President and CEO of FormFactor since May 2025.
- Joris Hiddema
Co-founder and CEO of AgXeed, leading development of autonomous agricultural tractors in the Netherlands.
- Jose Acain
Co-founder and CTO of AstroForge. Previously engineer at SpaceX and NASA JPL.
- José Antonio Ramos Calamonte
CEO of ASOS plc. British online fashion retailer investing in warehouse automation and robotic sorting.
- José del R. Millán
Director of Texas Robotics and professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, leading the Clinical Neuroprosthetics and Brai...
- José Ignacio Latorre
Co-founded Qilimanjaro in 2019; quantum physicist and professor at University of Barcelona.
- José L. Pons
Founding Partner of Technaid. Senior research scientist at CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Cajal Institute, Neural Rehabilitation Group. Led the Bioen...
- José Muñoz
President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyundai Motor Company, effective January 1, 2025. Joined Hyundai in 2019 as President and Global COO and CEO of Hyundai...
- Jose Sanchez
Co-founder of Atlantic.Net.
- Josef Aschbacher
Director General of ESA since March 2021. Previously Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA. Leads the agency through its largest-ever budget cycle (€2...
- Josef Koroesi
Founder of ANDRITZ (1852).
- Josef Průša
Founder and CEO of Prusa Research. Started as a developer in the RepRap open-source 3D printer project, founded Prusa Research in 2012 as a one-man startup, and...
- Joseph (Joe) E. Creed
Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc. Named CEO effective May 1, 2025, succeeding Jim Umpleby; named Chairman of the Board on April 1, 2026. Joined Caterpillar i...
- Joseph Anderson
Vice President of SpaceLogistics at Northrop Grumman. Previously VP of Operations and Business Development for Space Logistics LLC.
- Joseph Bousaba
Chief Executive Officer of InvenSense, a TDK group company. Previously Chief Business Officer for InvenSense.
- Joseph Dominguez
President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Energy, overseeing nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and natural gas facilities.
- Joseph E. Aoun
President of Northeastern University.
- Joseph Fadool
President & CEO of BorgWarner since February 2025. Succeeded Frédéric Lissalde as CEO of the automotive supplier.
- Joseph Hitt, Ph.D.
Co-founder and CEO of GoX Labs (formerly GoX Studio). Former DARPA Program Manager for LS3, Warrior Web, EXACTO, Squad X, and Vulture projects. Former Associate...
- 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 M. McFarland III
Executive Vice President, Stores at Lowe's Companies, Inc. Leads the team of nearly 300,000 store associates across the Lowe's chain. Joined Lowe's in 2018.
- Joseph Nathan
Co-founder, President, and Chief Medical Officer of ForSight Robotics. A surgeon (MD, MSc) who previously directed healthcare commercialization at the Technion ...
- Joseph Nelson
Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, a leading computer vision and AI platform used by over one million developers including more than half of the Fortune 100. Previ...
- Joseph Nicchitta
Chief Executive Officer of the County of Los Angeles, appointed May 19 2026 after serving as Acting CEO since October 2025.
- Joseph Oriel Eaton II
Co-founder of Eaton Corporation.
- Joseph Sullivan
Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Kevin Sullivan in 2015; serves as Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for Dax robot hardware design.
- Joseph Tsai
Co-founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group since September 2023. Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire (net worth ~$11.8B, Forbes 2025). Born in Taipei (1964); educated ...
- Joseph Turk
Chairman of the Lifeward Board of Directors.
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Founder of Bombardier (1942). Canadian inventor and entrepreneur.
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Founder of Bombardier (1942). Canadian inventor and entrepreneur.
- Josh Araujo
CEO of Forterra. Leading the company's autonomous driving system deployment for military and commercial vehicles.
- Josh Gruenstein
MIT graduate and robotics enthusiast who co-founded Tutor Intelligence in 2021. Built robots as a hobby since age 8 and developed the fleet-scale learning appro...
- Josh Harris
Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.
- Josh Kopelman
Founder of First Round Capital. Early stage investor.
- Josh Kushner
Founder of Thrive Capital. OpenAI, Figure AI backer.
- Josh Liu
Co-founder & CTO of [Queue](/companies/queue), the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. Josh Liu previously worked at Tesla, Waymo, and Zipline, bri...
- 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...
- Josh Roberts
President and GM of Triangle Farms, a vegetable farming operation in Salinas, California and early customer of Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder. Later became Vice Pr...
- Josh Weiss
President of Hexagon Mining Dec 2017 to March 2020; later promoted to COO/CDO of Geosystems division.
- Josh Wilson
CEO of LMI Technologies, effective January 2026.
- Josh Wolfe
Co-founded Lux Capital. $1.5B fund focused on science and defense. Portfolio includes Hadrian, Auris Health, Anduril, Eikon Therapeutics. Shrinking the gap betw...
- Joshua Baer
Founder and CEO of Capital Factory (2009–2026), Austin's most active early-stage investor and startup accelerator. An Eisenhower Fellow and Henry Crown Fellow, ...
- Joshua Kushner
Joshua Kushner founded Thrive Capital in 2009 at age 24. He is also a co-founder of Oscar Health and a minority owner of the Miami Heat. He owns 96.7% of Thrive...
- Joshua Mangelson
Associate Professor, ECE. Co-director FROST Lab. Underwater autonomous vehicles, SLAM, multi-agent systems.
- Joshua Phitoussi
Congruent Ventures. Climate tech.
- Joshua Stinson
Chief Growth Officer at Edge Autonomy, a combat service veteran who has advocated for unmanned aerial systems support to the U.S. Army. Led business development...
- Joshua Wilson
Co-founder & CEO of Freedom Robotics. MIT dropout, previously co-founded Tsumobi. Founded Freedom Robotics to build 'AWS for robots' — cloud infrastructure for ...
- Josiah Gruber
CEO of [Scout Space](/companies/scout-space), a space domain awareness company building in-space sensor networks for real-time orbital tracking. He holds an MS ...
- Josie Braga
Co-founder of Braga Fresh (originally Braga Farms) in 1928 alongside her husband Sebastian Braga, starting a family farming operation in Soledad, California, in...
- Joydeep Biswas
Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. Leads the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL), performing research to make robots more autonomous...
- József Veres
Co-founded OptoForce in 2012 with Ákos Tar. Robotic force/torque sensor innovator.
- Juan C. Moreno
Group leader of the Neural Rehabilitation Group at CSIC's Cajal Institute (Madrid). Leads research in rehabilitation robotics and neural interfaces. The group t...
- Juan Font
President and CEO of CoreSite, SVP of American Tower, leading data center strategy and innovation.
- Juan Salcedo
Co-founder of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot); previously a principal engineer at MAKO Surgical.
- Juantxu Martin
Chief Technology Officer at GOGOA Mobility Robots, responsible for exoskeleton technology development and safety standards compliance.
- Judah L.
Co-Founder at Robot.com. Previously Founder & CEO of Nickelytics.
- Judith Wiese
Chief People and Sustainability Officer at Siemens AG. Member of the Managing Board.
- Judson Kauffman
Co-founder of Terradepth.
- Judy Faulkner
Founder and CEO of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company.
- Judy Marks
CEO of Otis Elevator Company.
- Judy Marks
Chair, CEO and President of Otis Worldwide Corporation.
- Juerg Frefel
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Juha Vartiainen
Co-founder and Chief Global Affairs Officer at [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers). PhD co-founded IQM in 2018 alongside Jan Goetz, Mikko ...
- Juho Nummela
CEO of Ponsse, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cut-to-length forest machines, based in Vierema, Finland.
- Julia Badger
Robotics engineer at NASA JPL, led the Robonaut 2 project for humanoid robotics on the International Space Station.
- Julia Yang
Founder of MAD Components (Jiangxi MAD Components Co., Ltd.), a Nanchang-based manufacturer of brushless motors and multirotor components for heavy-lift drones ...
- Julian Kudritzki
COO of Beale Infrastructure.
- 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.
- Julie A. Adams
Professor and College of Engineering Deans Professor at Oregon State University. CoRIS Associate Director for Research. Research in field robotics and human-rob...
- Julie Kim
CEO of Soul Machines, a New Zealand-founded AI company building lifelike, autonomously animated digital people powered by its patented Digital Brain technology....
- Julie Kitcher
Airbus Ventures. Aerospace/autonomy investments.
- Julien Calloud
Appointed CEO of SAVOYE effective June 2025. Previously served in leadership roles at Savoye.
- Julien Chaumond
French engineer; co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Previously worked as an engineer within France's Ministry of Economy and at Moodstocks; hold...
- Julien Lederman
Appointed Interim CEO in December 2024 after serving as VP Corporate Development since March 2021.
- Juliette W. Pryor
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Lowe's Companies, Inc. Leads the company's legal, compliance, government relations, and...
- Julio Frenk
Chancellor of UCLA since June 2025.
- Julius Amrit
Co-founder, COO & Director of NewSpace Research and Technologies.
- Jun Ho Oh
KAIST professor and creator of HUBO humanoid robot that won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge; co-founder of Rainbow Robotics
- Jun Liu
Director of MSc in Robotics and Intelligent Systems at HKU.
- 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...
- Junaed Sattar
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and founding director of the Interactive Robotics and Vision (IRV) Laboratory...
- June Ho Park
Founder of RoboCare, a South Korean care robotics company developing humanoid robots for elderly cognitive training and dementia prevention. Professor of Mechan...
- Junghee Ryu
Serial entrepreneur and KAIST PhD. Previously founded Olaworks (acquired by Intel in Intel's first Korean startup acquisition) and FuturePlay. Now leading RLWRL...
- Jungho Lee
CEO of Rainbow Robotics, leading the Korean robotics company's development of the RB-Y1 bimanual mobile manipulator and HUBO humanoid platform.
- Jungsang Kim
Co-founder and CTO of IonQ and Pierre R. Lamond Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics at Duke University, specializing in quantum information science and t...
- Junhyung Park
IMM Investment. Korean VC.
- Junji Tsuda
Chairman of Yaskawa Electric, the Japanese robotics and motion control company.
- Junqing Wei
CEO of KargoBot, an autonomous trucking company.
- Junta Tsujinaga
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Junwei Bao
CEO of Seyond.
- Jur van den Berg
Co-founder and CTO of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup. Born 1981 in Groningen, Netherlands. PhD from Utrecht University under Mark Overmars in computational...
- 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.
- Justin Fiaschetti
Co-founder & CEO of Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based company building re-entry capsules for on-demand delivery from orbit. Former propulsion engineer on Spa...
- Justin Haynes
CEO and President of Big Bend Telecom.
- Justin Johnson
Co-founder of World Labs. AI and computer vision researcher, former professor at University of Michigan, PhD from Fei-Fei Li's lab at Stanford.
- Justin Lopas
Co-founder and COO of Base Power. Co-founded the company with Zach Dell in 2023. Leads operations and manufacturing at Base's Austin factory.
- Justin Nolan
Chief Executive Officer and Director of Argo Blockchain, appointed March 2025.
- Justin Patton
Professor of Practice and Lab Director of the RFID Laboratory at Auburn University's Harbert College of Business. Researches wireless technologies and data tran...
- 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...
- Kacper Janowski
Co-founder and CEO of [Nomagic](/companies/nomagic), the Warsaw-based AI robotics company building pick-and-place robots for e-commerce fulfillment. Previously ...
- Kai Beckmann
CEO of Merck KGaA, effective May 1, 2026.
- Kai Xu
Founder of Surgerii, a medical robotics company developing surgical assistance platforms.
- Kaity Fischer
VP of Commercial and Operations at Wayve.
- Kale Rogers
Co-founder of Spyce (Infinite Kitchen) and MIT '16 mechanical engineering graduate. Co-founded the robotic kitchen startup with fellow MIT fraternity brothers B...
- Kalpana Singh
President and General Manager of Celera Motion, a Novanta company. Leads the precision motion control business unit serving medical and advanced industrial OEMs...
- Kam Ghaffarian
Iranian-born American entrepreneur and co-founder of [Axiom Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Space), [Intuitive Machines](/companies/intuitive-machine...
- Kamran Shamsavari
President of Xandex, a technology company developing robotics and automation solutions for industrial applications.
- Kamy Scarlett
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc.
- 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...
- Kang Ki-hyuk
Co-founder and CTO of Neubility. Serving as acting CEO while founder Lee Sang-min completes mandatory military service. Leading the company's expansion into hum...
- KangGeon Kim
Principal Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Director of the KIST Robot Vision Lab. Research focuses on robot vision...
- Kanter van Deurzen
Co-founder and Head of Development at Rocsys.
- Karan Kunjur
Co-founder and CEO of K2 Space, a Los Angeles-based satellite platform manufacturer building large, high-power satellite buses for defense and commercial use. F...
- Karen Leineweber
Computer Vision Lead at Point One Navigation. Previously conducted optical nano-structures research at Columbia University, GNSS remote sensing research at Corn...
- Karen Petersburg
Senior Vice President of Data Center Design & Engineering at PowerHouse Data Centers, named DCD Woman of the Year 2025.
- Karen S. Carter
Chief Executive Officer of Dow (effective July 1, 2026). Previously Chief Operating Officer. Succeeded Jim Fitterling as CEO.
- Karen S. Carter
Chief Executive Officer of Dow Inc. (effective July 2026). Joined Dow in 1994; previously served as Chief Operating Officer, President of Packaging & Specialty ...
- Karim Abdel-Malek
Karim Abdel-Malek is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Iow...
- Karim Tourbah
Chief Product and Innovation Officer (CPIO) at Lupin Dental, responsible for product strategy and innovation initiatives for the Lupin Robotic System platform.
- Karl Albrecht
Co-founder of Aldi Sud.
- Karl D. Wente
Fifth-generation winemaker at Wente Vineyards in Livermore, California, continuing the family winemaking tradition established in 1883. His family brought the C...
- Karl Deppen
CEO of Archion Corporation, a technology company providing data storage and computing solutions.
- Karl Faulhaber
Managing Director of FAULHABER, leading the family-run group and overseeing global supply chains and growth markets.
- Karl Mueller
Director of Ames National Laboratory.
- Karl Murphy
Co-founder of Forterra (formerly Robotic Research), founded in 2002. Extensive research experience developing control software for autonomous vehicles, both on ...
- Karl Rapp
Co-founder of BMW.
- Karl Watfern
Co-founder and CTO of Hullbot, the autonomous hull-cleaning robotics company.
- Karl Zelik
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of HeroWear, a Nashville-based exosuit company. Biomechanical engineer and professor at Vanderbilt University who invent...
- Karl-Thomas Neumann
Executive at Autobrains Technologies; former CEO of Opel and former CTO of Continental AG with extensive automotive industry experience.
- 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...
- Kartik Tiwati
Co-founder of Starsky Robotics, an autonomous trucking company that conducted the first driverless freight run on a public highway before shutting down in March...
- Kash Shaikh
President and CEO of Penguin Solutions (Atlas Compute).
- Katherine Boyle
Board observer at Saronic; General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and co-founder of its American Dynamism practice; previously at General Catalyst.
- Kathryn Daltorio
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at CWRU and Co-Director of the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab. Develops biologically inspired ro...
- Kathryn Zealand
Founder and CEO of [Skip](/companies/skip), the company behind the MO/GO ultralight exoskeleton — the first "e-bike for walking," developed inside Arc'teryx pan...
- Kathy Warden
Chair, CEO and President of [Northrop Grumman](/companies/northrop-grumman) since January 2019. Joined Northrop in 2008 as VP of its cybersecurity business; ros...
- Kathy Xu
Founder of Capital Today. Chinese early-stage VC.
- Kathy Yang
Former Rotating Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), March 2025 to March 2026. First woman to hold the rotating CEO role. Concurrent...
- Katja Mombaur
Professor at University of Waterloo; expert in humanoid robot locomotion optimization, biomechanics, and whole-body motion
- Katja von Raven
Member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since October 1, 2024. Responsible for the Power Tools division and Bosch Global Service Solutions. Also ...
- Katsu Nakamura
Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Katsuhiko Saho
Co-CEO of Archelis, a wearable chair and mobility device company.
- Kaustubh Dhonde
Founder and CEO of AutoNxt Automation, a Mumbai-based startup developing India's first CMVR-certified electric autonomous tractor. Founded AutoNxt in 2016 as an...
- Kay Sheils Kingsbury
Chief Financial Officer of Apptronik; previously CFO at ICON Technology and an investment-banking MD. MBA from Stanford GSB.
- Kazuaki Iwata
President of Aisin, a Toyota Group automotive components manufacturer specializing in powertrain and body parts.
- Kazuhiro Takizawa
Managing Executive Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Chief Officer, Automobile Operations; Chief Officer, Regional Operations (Associated Regions); Risk Manageme...
- Kazuhiro Tsuga
Kazuhiro Tsuga served as President and CEO of Panasonic from 2012 to 2021, and became Chairman in April 2021. He led Panasonic's strategic pivot toward automoti...
- Kazuhito Tanaka
President of Japan Airport Terminal Co Haneda Airport.
- Kazuma Tateisi
Founder of Omron, the Japanese electronics and automation company.
- Kazumasa Kimura
Representative Director, President and CEO of Nabtesco Corporation since March 2022.
- Kazuo Tadanobu
President and CEO of Panasonic Energy.
- Kazuya Yoshida
Director of Tohoku University Space Robotics Lab.
- KC Liu
Founder and Chairman of Advantech Co., Ltd., the world's largest industrial PC maker with a 41% market share. Born Liu Ko-chen (劉克振); cofounded Advantech in 198...
- Ke Ruiwen
Executive Director, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer of China Telecom Corporation Limited since May 2019. Joined the Board in May 2012. Senior...
- Ke Shang
Industrial exoskeleton researcher and CEO & Founder of Crimson Dynamics, a Chinese exoskeleton R&D company established in 2016. Develops occupational wearable s...
- Kees Koolen
Dutch businessman and investor. Former COO, CEO, and Chairman of Booking.com (2002–2014), where he scaled the company into the world's leading online travel pla...
- Kei Uruma
President and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric. Oversees FA industrial robot division including RV20FRL and MELFA ASSISTA.
- Kei Uruma
President and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, serving as Representative Executive Officer and Director since July 2021. Joined Mitsubishi Electric in 19...
- Keiichiro Yasukawa
Founded Yaskawa Electric in 1915 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
- Keisuke Yoneda
Co-founder and CAIO of MoveEz, holds a Ph.D. and leads AI strategy for the Japanese autonomous robotaxi startup. MoveEz originated from 28 years of autonomous d...
- Keita Suzuki
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and CFO of NSK Ltd. Responsible for all Administrative Divisions, Europe and the Americas. Born 1965.
- Keith Bentley
Co-founder of Bentley Systems.
- 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...
- Kelly Larson
CEO of Ceres Robotics, a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) company developing lunar landers and rovers for the Artemis program. Serial entrepreneur ...
- Kelly Ortberg
President & CEO of The Boeing Company since August 8, 2024. 35+ years in aerospace. Former CEO of Rockwell Collins.
- Kelly Wei
Executive at Shenzhen QI Technology Co., Ltd. (DOGCOM brand), a leading manufacturer of LiPo batteries for FPV drones, RC vehicles, and airsoft guns. Manages in...
- Kelvin Sun
Founder and CEO of Hypershell. Also founded hardware venture Lattepanda. Post-90s science and engineering entrepreneur leading the consumer exoskeleton category...
- Ken Fleming
CEO of Fizyr, a robot vision AI company based in the Netherlands.
- Ken Goldberg
Co-founder of Ambi Robotics, UC Berkeley professor and BCNM faculty. Pioneering AI-powered parcel sorting robotics.
- Ken Guthrie
General Manager of CUES from 1974 to 1988, hired by Penetryn Systems. Pioneered the foundational equipment of the trenchless technology industry: the first late...
- Ken Ho
Chairman and CEO of Primech Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: PMEC). Founded Primech AI in 2024 as a subsidiary to develop autonomous cleaning robotics.
- Ken Miyauchi
Board Director of SoftBank Group Corp.
- Ken Murphy
CEO of Tesco.
- Kenichi Konno
President and Chief Executive Officer of Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation since June 2025.
- Kenichi Yamana
Director of NSK Ltd. Chairman of the Board (non-executive).
- Kenichiro Yoshida
Chairman and CEO of Sony Group Corporation. Oversees Sony's robotics initiatives including AIBO robot dog and aibo AI companion platform.
- Kenji Bando
Executive linked to registry companies.
- 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). ...
- Kenneth Bodin
CEO & Co-founder of Algoryx Simulation. Founded in 2007 in Umeå, Sweden. Builds AGX Dynamics physics engine for robotics simulation, digital twins, and AI contr...
- Kenny Lee
CEO and co-founder of Aigen, developing solar-powered autonomous agricultural robots for chemical-free farming.
- Kensuke Namura
CEO of Namura Shipbuilding.
- Kent Griffith
Co-founder of Nyobolt, a UK-based fast-charging battery technology company spun out of the University of Cambridge. Kent Griffith is a solid-state chemist and A...
- Kent Rollins
Executive at General Intuition, contributing to AI and autonomous systems development.
- Kenta Kon
President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation.
- Kentaro Kawamori
Co-founder and CEO of Telexistence; building cloud-controlled humanoid robots for retail and logistics through VR teleoperation
- Kentaro Matsui
Board member of Wayve (joined via the SoftBank-led Series C); Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers and Head of the New Business Office at SoftBank G...
- Kenzo Saito
Japanese industrialist who founded Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. (now TDK Corporation) on December 7, 1935 to commercialise ferrite — the world's first oxide-ba...
- Kevin Albert
Founder and CEO of Canvas. Former Boston Dynamics engineer who built the drywall finishing robot company to address construction labor shortages.
- Kevin Barker
President of Beckhoff Automation LLC (USA) since February 2019, leading the US headquarters in Savage, Minnesota. Focused on sales and marketing for key industr...
- Kevin Carlin
CEO of Realtime Robotics (appointed Aug 2026, succeeding co-founder Peter Howard). Joined Realtime Robotics in 2022 as Chief Commercial Officer, promoted to Pre...
- Kevin Clark
CEO of Aptiv. 5 robotics/physical AI participations including autonomous vehicle investments.
- Kevin Decker
CEO of Ocean Aero Inc, a Gulfport, Mississippi-based manufacturer of autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (AUSVs). Led the company's relocation to Mississ...
- Kevin Dehoff
Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Quantinuum Consulting Services at [Quantinuum](/companies/quantinuum), the world's largest integrated quantum comp...
- Kevin Driscoll-Lind
Co-founder and CTO of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous drone inspection systems for wind turbines since 2016.
- Kevin Garell
SVP of Services & Support at Apptronik; previously led Global Services & Support at Boston Dynamics.
- Kevin Gibbon
3rd-time venture founder. Previously founded Shyp (on-demand shipping, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies) and Airhouse (fulfillment startup). Shipped 10M...
- Kevin Howell
15th Chancellor of NC State University since May 2025.
- Kevin Kim
CEO of Doosan Robotics, a collaborative robot manufacturer.
- Kevin Lausten
CEO of Morpheus Space, a German-American company developing modular electric propulsion systems for in-space satellite mobility. Lausten leads the company's com...
- Kevin Lynch
Director of Northwestern Center for Robotics and Biosystems.
- Kevin May
COO of Restore Robotics; oversees the company's FDA-cleared da Vinci Xi robotic instrument remanufacturing operations and engineering team.
- Kevin McSweeney
President and CEO of HDT Global, leading the company's defense robotics and expeditionary systems business.
- Kevin Nolan
President and CEO of GE Appliances, a Haier company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Seasoned engineer and innovator leading one of the most admired Ameri...
- Kevin P. Clark
Chair and CEO of [Aptiv](/companies/aptiv) PLC since 2015; named Chairman in April 2022. Joined Aptiv as CFO in 2010, became COO in 2014, then President & CEO i...
- Kevin Peterson
Co-founder and CTO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader.
- Kevin Reid
CEO & Chairman of Beep (autonomous mobility). Technology entrepreneur with 25+ years experience. Co-founded Virtustream (sold to EMC/Dell for .2B), Greensmith E...
- Kevin Sagis
Executive linked to registry companies.
- 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.
- Kevin Washington
Founder and President of Atlas Power, a data center operator with facilities in Butte, Montana and Williston, North Dakota.
- Khaldoon Al Mubarak
CEO of Mubadala. Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth.
- Ki-Nam Lee
President of Hanwha Precision Machinery (Hanwha Robotics division). Opened the Hanwha Europe Technical Center near Frankfurt in September 2019 to accelerate glo...
- Kiefus and Levine Families
Founding families of Big Joe Forklifts (Big Joe Manufacturing), established in 1951 in Chicago.
- Kiichiro Miyata
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Kiichiro Toyoda
Founder of DENSO and Toyota Motor.
- Kiichiro Toyoda
Founder of Aisin (Aichi Industries).
- Kim Butler
Kim Butler, CPA, ICD appointed as Executive Vice President for Defense at Kraken Robotics. Strategic leadership addition for defense expansion.
- Kim Fausing
CEO of Danfoss, a Danish multinational specializing in climate-friendly refrigeration, heating, and power electronics.
- Kim Joon-Sik
Chairman & CEO of Daedong Corporation. Also serves as chairman of Daedong-USA, Inc. Leads the company's strategic direction including its expansion into AI-powe...
- Kim Min-soo
CEO of Hanwha Robotics, the robotics subsidiary of Hanwha Group — South Korea's seventh-largest conglomerate. Hanwha Robotics was officially launched in October...
- Kim Pong Ong
Group CEO of PSA International.
- Kim Sang-hyun
Vice Chairman and head of Lotte Retail. Presided over the first Lotte Retail AI Conference in August 2025, unveiling plans to establish an 'agentic enterprise' ...
- Kim Tae-sung
President and CEO of Tata Daewoo Mobility since 2025
- Kim Yoon-ki
CEO of HL Robotics, subsidiary of HL Holdings.
- Kimberley Losey
CEO of Rapid Robotics.
- Kimberly A. Kuryea
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at General Dynamics.
- Kimberly Ploskonka
Acting Director of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory since June 15, 2025. Leader of the Army's sole fundamental research laboratory.
- Kimiyasu Kato
President and Representative Director of Kato Works Co., Ltd. since June 2004. Leads the Japanese construction machinery manufacturer's global operations includ...
- Kimo Johnson
Co-founder and CEO of GelSight. Commercializing MIT tactile sensing technology for robotics. Leading SBIR Phase II grant for human-like tactile sensors.
- Kimon Valavanis
John Evans Professor and Director of Research at the Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver, leading the DU Unmanned Systems R...
- Kingsley Afemikhe
Chief Financial Officer of Shield AI.
- Kiril Solovey
Assistant Professor at Technion ECE. Leads the Multi-Robot Systems Lab researching multi-robot planning and coordination.
- Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes
CEO and Co-Founder of Stateful Robotics, an Oxford University spinout developing long-horizon decision intelligence for mobile robots. Previously CEO of Latent ...
- Kiva Allgood
Technology commercialization executive named CEO of Sarcos in December 2021. Previously held leadership roles at Qualcomm and Nokia. Left Sarcos in May 2023.
- Klajd Lika
CEO of Bota Systems. ETH Zürich spin-off (2020) manufacturing high-precision force-torque sensors for robotics and automation in Switzerland.
- Klaus König
Managing Director of the Industrial Division at Vaillant Group since 2021.
- Ko Miyoshi
COO of TIER IV, leading business and product development for autonomous driving solutions. Joined TIER IV in 2020, bringing expertise in infrastructure projects...
- Koichi Ito
President of Toyota Industries Corporation since 2023.
- Koichi Tsukamoto
Executive Officer and Vice President of Product at [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics), leading software platform development since 2019. Previo...
- Koichiro Nakamura
Co-founder of SEQSENSE, the Tokyo-based autonomous security robot company founded in 2016 as a spinout from Meiji University.
- Koji Furukawa
Japan Post Capital.
- Koji Muneto
CEO and President of Medicaroid since 2013. Leads the joint venture between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex in developing Japan's first domestic surgical r...
- Koji Toyama
President of Kokoro Company.
- Kola Ogunlade
Co-founder of Terra Industries, building autonomous defense drones for the African market.
- Kommer Damen
Co-founder of Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch shipbuilding company specializing in work vessels and naval ships.
- Kōnosuke Matsushita
Kōnosuke Matsushita founded Panasonic (originally Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works) in 1918 in Osaka, Japan. He is considered one of Japan's m...
- Konrad Fagertun
Founder and business developer of nLink, originated the mobile drilling robot concept and won RoboBusiness Pitchfire in 2014.
- Konstantin Rangelov
Co-founder and CTO of Dronamics. Founded the company with his brother Svilen in 2014.
- Koo In-hwoi
Founder of LG Corporation, the South Korean conglomerate.
- Kostas Karachalios
Mechanical engineer and co-founder of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous drone inspection systems for wind turbines since 2016.
- Kris Licht
CEO of Reckitt since October 2023; appointed CEO Designate on 1 May 2023. Joined Reckitt in 2019 as Chief Transformation Officer, then served as President of th...
- Kris Zacny
Vice President of Exploration Technology Group at Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company. Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2005) with empha...
- Krishna Rangasayee
Founder and CEO of SiMa.ai (founded 2018). Previously COO at Groq and spent 18 years at Xilinx (now AMD) as SVP and GM, growing the business to $2.5B revenue. S...
- Kristaps Puke
CEO of Brasa Defence Systems (SIA Brasa Defence Systems), leading development of the Natrix and UNHUMAN unmanned ground vehicles for the Latvian Armed Forces an...
- Kristian Warming
CEO of FarmDroid, a Danish agricultural robotics company developing autonomous seeding and weeding robots.
- Kristians Bredermanis
Advisor at Brasa Defence Systems, spokesperson for the UNHUMAN unmanned ground vehicle program.
- 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 ...
- Kuan Yen Tan
Co-founder and CTO of [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers), Europe's most well-funded quantum hardware startup. PhD from the University of ...
- 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...
- Kurt Keutzer
Professor of the Graduate School in EECS at UC Berkeley and IEEE Fellow, conducting research in the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) lab. His research focuses on mak...
- Kurt Neutgens
Co-founder and CEO of [Orange EV](/companies/orange-ev), a leading manufacturer of pure electric terminal trucks with 2000+ trucks deployed. Spent 17+ years at ...
- Kwak Noh-Jung
CEO of SK Hynix.
- Kwon Lee
CEO SoftBank Ventures Asia.
- Kylan Gibbs
Co-founded Inworld AI in 2021 to build AI-driven virtual characters.
- 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.
- Kyle Luthy
Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University Department of Engineering. The Luthy Lab investigates field-deployable unmanned distributed sensor systems and rob...
- 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.
- Kyosuke Nagata
President of University of Tsukuba.
- Kyu-jin Cho
Co-founder and CSO of Rebodis. Professor at Seoul National University leading the Biomechatronics Lab, where Rebodis's soft wearable robotics technology origina...
- La Denise Robinson
CapitalG (Alphabet/Google growth equity). Physical Intelligence Series B lead.
- Lachy Groom
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; investor and operator, previously an early executive at Stripe.
- Ladi Delano
British-Nigerian entrepreneur, co-founder and co-CEO of [Moove](/companies/moove), the world's first mobility fintech. Holds master's degrees from the Universit...
- Ladislav Dvořák
Co-founder and CEO of RoboTwin s.r.o. Engineer with experience at Škoda Auto and FDTech GmbH in autonomous driving software.
- 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...
- Lak Ananth
CEO of Next47. Siemens-backed venture.
- Lal Karsanbhai
President and Chief Executive Officer of Emerson Electric Co. Joined Emerson in 1995. Previously served as Executive President of Emerson's Automation Solutions...
- Lan Zhenzhong
Founder of West Lake Xinchen (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. PI at the School of Engineering, Westlake University.
- Lance Tracey
Co-founder of Aptum (Peer 1 Network).
- Lance Vanden Brook
Robotics and automation executive with 30+ years of experience. Former CEO of CyPhy Works (later rebranded Aria Insights), a Danvers, Massachusetts-based drone ...
- Lanham Napier
Founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets.
- Lanham Napier
Chairman of BorderPlex Digital Assets, LLC. Former CEO of Rackspace. Leads a billion digital infrastructure campus in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
- Larry Ellison
Founder of Oracle Corporation.
- Larry Hillblom
Co-founder of DHL.
- Larry Page
Co-founder of Alphabet Inc. and Google (founded 1998). Created Google's PageRank algorithm with Sergey Brin.
- Lars Brzoska
CEO of Jungheinrich AG. Contract extended to July 2030.
- Lars Grimstad
Co-founder of Saga Robotics with Dr. Pal Johan From. Co-developed the Thorvald autonomous robot platform.
- Lars Hinrichs
HV Capital (formerly Holtzbrinck). German VC.
- Lars Holmgren
Co-founder of Brokk. Together with his brother Per-Martin Holmgren, he developed the world's first remote-controlled demolition robot in 1976 at Rönnskärsverken...
- Lars Jörnow
Founding partner of EQT Ventures, alongside Kees Koolen and Hjalmar Winbladh. Before co-founding EQT Ventures, he was VP of Mobile at King Digital, where he hel...
- Lars Larsson
Co-founder of Trinamic Motion Control, which developed motion control chips starting in 1996 alongside Michael Randt and Bernhard Dwersteg. Trinamic was acquire...
- Lars Lindgren
President of Brokk Inc (Brokk USA), the North American subsidiary of Brokk AB. Has over 40 years of experience in manufacturing, servicing, operating, selling a...
- Lars Reger
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Responsible for NXP's technology strategy and innovation roadmap.
- 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...
- Lars Schmitz
Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.
- Lars Tingelstad
Co-founder and CTO of Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS). He holds a PhD and served as Associate Professor of Robotic Production at the Norwegian University ...
- Lars Wagner
CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft, effective January 1, 2026. Succeeded Christian Scherer.
- Laura Carlson
President of University of Delaware effective January 2026.
- Laura Hines-Pierce
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Hines. Daughter of Jeffrey C. Hines. Became co-CEO in 2022 alongside her father.
- Laura J. McGill
17th Director of Sandia National Laboratories since May 2025.
- Laura Major
CEO of Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv autonomous driving joint venture. Deploying IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas with Uber partnership.
- Laura Ortman
CEO of Cologix.
- Laura Peterson
Former Boeing Vice President named interim CEO of Sarcos in May 2023, made permanent in October 2023. Oversaw the pivot from hardware to AI software. Replaced b...
- Laura Ritchey
President and CEO of GEODIS in Americas.
- Lauren Fletcher
Engineer and scientist; co-founder of Dendra Systems (originally BioCarbon Engineering); previously spent over 20 years at NASA.
- Laurent Pelissier
CEO of Clarius Mobile Health, a company developing handheld ultrasound scanners with robotic guidance capabilities.
- Laurie Leshin
Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, planetary scientist and leader of JPL's space exploration missions.
- Lawrence Schovanec
17th President of Texas Tech University, appointed 2016. Under his leadership, enrollment increased by nearly 6,000 students and over 900 million USD was invest...
- Le Anh Son
Co-founder and CTO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Associate Professor.
- Lee Dongkun
Executive Vice President at Samsung Electronics, heading the Robotics Strategy Team within the new Robotics eXperience (RX) Business Promotion Office. Former Hy...
- Lee Hak-jae
President and CEO of Incheon International Airport Corporation. Inaugurated June 2023. Previously served in various government positions.
- Lee Hansen
Chief Financial Officer of Glydways, overseeing financial strategy, capital planning, and corporate operations for the personal rapid transit company.
- Lee Hayes
President and CEO of Chirisa Technology Parks (CIM Group), a build-to-suit developer of AI-native data center facilities.
- Lee Hayes
President and CEO of Chirisa Technology Parks, a build-to-suit developer and operator of AI-native data center facilities.
- Lee Sang Kyun
Chairman and CEO of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries a major shipbuilding and heavy industrial equipment company.
- Lee Sang-min
Founder and CEO of Neubility. Founded the company in 2017 at age 19 while at Yonsei University. Former researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Forbes 30...
- Lee Seok-hee
Former CEO and President of SK On (stepped down May 2026). Stanford PhD in Materials Science. 36-year career spanning Hyundai Electronics, SK hynix, KAIST, Inte...
- Lee Seow Hiang
Former CEO of Changi Airport Group, led Singapore Changi Airport through significant expansion phases.
- Lee Yong-wook
CEO and President of SK On. Former CEO of SK Materials and SK Siltron. Strategy and M&A expert focused on profitability turnaround for SK On battery business.
- Lee Young-wook
President of SK On.
- 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 Xiao
CEO of UBTECH Robotics; leading one of China's largest humanoid robotics companies producing the Walker series
- Lei Yang
CEO of IntBot.
- Lei Zou
Head of the Semiconductor Business Unit at Robotphoenix.
- 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)...
- Len Foxman
CEO President and Chairman of Eagle Test Systems.
- Len Foxman
CEO President and Chairman of Eagle Test Systems.
- Leo Petrossian
CEO of Neurolutions, a medical device company commercializing the IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System, the first FDA-authorized brain-computer interf...
- Leo Ryzhenko
Founder and CEO of SMP Robotics.
- Leo Zhou
Co-founder and CEO of Nordbo Robotics.
- Leon Black
Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.
- Leon Topalian
Chair and CEO of Nucor Corporation.
- Leonard Bosack
American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Cisco Systems in December 1984 with Sandra Lerner while both worked at Stanford University. Born in ...
- Leonard Parker Pool
Founder of Air Products and Chemicals (founded 1940 in Detroit). Pioneered on-site production and sales of industrial gases.
- Lerrel Pinto
NYU professor; leading researcher in robot learning, dexterous manipulation, and sim-to-real transfer for humanoid hands
- Les Kohn
Renowned Silicon Valley chip architect. Co-founder and CTO of Ambarella. Previously co-founded Afara Websystems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), was chief archit...
- Lewis C Jones
Co-founder and CTO of [Cosmic Robotics](/companies/cosmic-robotics). Previously helped launch the world's first 3D-printed rocket at Relativity Space.
- Lewis Gradon
Managing Director and CEO of Fisher and Paykel Healthcare.
- Lex Fridman
MIT research scientist and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast; conducts influential long-form interviews with robotics leaders
- Li Bozheng
Chairman of Borunte Robot Co., Ltd. Elected as chairman after Yin Rongzao stepped down from the chairman and general manager positions. Borunte Robot was establ...
- Li Chang
Founder and CEO of Oasa, a Chinese robotic lawn mower startup founded in 2022. A former founding member of home robotics brand Narwal, Li led Oasa to develop th...
- Li Deren
Renowned Chinese photogrammetry and remote sensing scientist, academician at Wuhan University, and co-founder of Geosun Navigation. Awarded China's State Preemi...
- Li Fanrong
Chairman of Sinochem Holdings.
- Li Hongjing
Co-founded Autel Robotics in 2014. Former executive at DJI.
- Li Hongxiang
CTO of Standard Robots. Leads technology development for the company's AMR and embodied intelligence platforms.
- Li Hongzhang
Founder of Changan Automobile origins (1862).
- Li Huagang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Haier Smart Home Co Ltd.
- Li Jun
President of Sugon Information Industry since March 2006.
- Li Luming
Li Luming is President at Tsinghua University.
- 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 Shufu
Founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Geely Capital is the corporate venture arm investing in robotics and automotive technology including Unitr...
- Li Tianwei
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Galaxea Dynamics (also known as Galaxea AI), a Chinese embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics company. He oversee...
- 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...
- Li Tong (李彤)
CEO of Guangzhou Shipeng Technology (SEEPPO). Quoted in 21st Century Business Herald discussing the Guangdong supply chain advantages for exoskeleton manufactur...
- Li Xiang
Founder and CEO of Li Auto, a Chinese EV manufacturer specializing in extended-range electric SUVs.
- Li Xiang
Associate Professor at Tsinghua University Department of Automation. Leads the Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Lab. Tenured in 2025.
- Li Yifan
Co-founder and CEO of Hesai Technology (Nasdaq: HSAI), a leading Chinese LiDAR sensor manufacturer. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since ince...
- Li Yuan
Founder & CEO of Benewake. Founded in Beijing in 2015. Leading provider of LiDAR products for autonomous driving, robotics, and IoT.
- Li Yuan
Founder and CEO of Benewake.
- Li Yunpeng
Founder and CEO of Iluvatar CoreX. Previously technology director of Oracle's core database department, where he contributed to over 10 versions of Exadata.
- Li Zexiang
Known as the "godfather of DJI." Professor at HKUST and founder of XbotPark robotics incubator. Holds 12.98% of One Robotics through Songshan Lake Robotics Inst...
- Li Zheng
Chief Financial Officer of CRRC Corporation Limited. Born 1972, holds a master's degree in accounting and is a Senior Accountant. Member of the Standing Committ...
- Li Zhenyu
Chairman and co-founder of TARS Robotics. Former President of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), where he led the Apollo autonomous driving platform.
- Li Zhichen
Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus; completed master's in electronics at Nanyang Technological University in one year. Founded Woan Technology (later One Ro...
- Li Zhichen is the CEO and co-founder of SwitchBot (Woan Technology). He holds a master's in electronics from Nanyang Technological University and previously worked at a Singapore-based tech firm before founding SwitchBot in 2015.
CEO and co-founder of SwitchBot (Woan Technology), a smart home robotics company. Holds a master's in electronics from Nanyang Technological University.
- Liana Dunlap
President and CEO of CoreSpace, a leading IT hosting provider and data center operator in Dallas, Texas.
- Liang Wengen
Founder and chairman of SANY Group.
- Liang Zaizhong
CEO of SANY. Son of founder Liang Wengen. Resigned as chairman in October 2025 but continues as CEO.
- Liangchuan Mi
Vice President of Robotics at XPeng and former Head of the XPeng Robotics Business Unit (appointed Sept 2023). Led the technical roadmap, organizational structu...
- Lihong Qin
Chinese business executive, Co-founder and President of NIO Inc. He works alongside founder William Li and is considered the second-in-command at the Shanghai-b...
- Limor Fried
Founder of Adafruit Industries.
- Lin Ling
Executive at SLAMTEC, contributing to the development of navigation and mapping technology for autonomous robots.
- Lin Xiqiang
Deputy Director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
- Linden Blue
Vice Chairman of General Atomics. Acquired the company with his brother Neal Blue in 1986.
- 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).
- Ling Shi
Director of the Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute at HKUST since January 2025.
- Linus Yale Sr
Founder of Yale Lock (Hyster-Yale origins).
- 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 Ron
Co-founder of Otto (2016), the self-driving truck startup acquired by Uber. Previously Product Lead for Google Maps. Served in Israeli Army Intelligence (1997–2...
- Lior Susan
Founder of Eclipse Ventures. 10 robotics/physical AI participations including Bedrock Robotics, Hadrian, Mind Robotics.
- Lior Tal
CEO of Cyngn (NASDAQ: CYN), the DriveMod industrial-autonomy company, since 2016; previously led international growth and partnerships at Facebook.
- Lip-Bu Tan
Founder of Walden International. Cross-border VC.
- Liron Cohen Yanay
CEO and co-founder of AgriPass, recognized as a Leading Woman in AgFood 2025, leading the company's mission to scale AI-powered robotic weed control.
- Lisa Atherton
Executive at Textron, leading defense and aerospace business segments.
- Lisa C. Freeman
13th president of Northern Illinois University and the first female president in NIU history.
- Lisa Edvardsen Haugan
President of Kongsberg Maritime. Leading maritime robotics and AUV systems. Separation from Kongsberg Gruppen approved Jan 2026.
- Lisa Flavin
Senior Vice President, Chief Transformation and Chief Compliance Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Lisa Ingram
Fourth CEO of White Castle, succeeding her father E.W. 'Bill' Ingram III in December 2015. Continues as the fourth generation of the Ingram family to lead the c...
- Lisa Roath
American retail executive serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Target Corporation. Joined Target in 2006 and has held multiple lea...
- Lisa Su
Chair and CEO of AMD (parent of Xilinx).
- 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 Jincheng
Founder and Chairman of EVE Energy, a battery technology company.
- Liu Jingyu
Chinese business executive who has served as Chairwoman and CEO of CALB Group, leading the company from loss-making toward passenger EV battery market dominance...
- Liu Kai
Founder of 5Y Capital. Chinese growth equity.
- 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 Shaoli
Co-founder of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon), spun out from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Cambricon project in 2016. Remains active at the com...
- Liu Siqi
Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999 to participate in the Human Genome Project.
- 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...
- Liu Yigong
President of FAW Group.
- Livio Valenti
Co-founder of Moveo s.r.l. Based in Boston, coordinates the business side of the company. Also co-founded Vaxess Technologies and Cambridge Crops. Sustainabilit...
- Lixin Sun
Chairman & CEO and co-founder of [Baicells Technologies](/companies/baicells-technologies), a global 4G LTE and 5G NR access solutions company connecting more t...
- Liyang Suo
CEO of Peitian Robot Group.
- Liz Rojewski
COO of [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), overseeing program execution and operational efficiency. Previously held roles at GM, BrightDrop, and Cruise, where ...
- 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...
- Lodovico Bussolati
CEO of SDF Group (Same Deutz-Fahr).
- Loïc Roch
Co-founder and CTO of Automata, developing lab automation robotics.
- Lok Home
Lok Home is President at The Robbins Company.
- 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...
- Lorenz Wellhausen
Co-founder and CTO Software of RIVR.
- Lorenzo Aquilante
Co-founder & CEO of AGADE. Italian deeptech startup building AI-powered wearable exoskeletons. Patented robotic technology in 2019.
- Lorenzo Mariani
CEO of Leonardo S.p.A., appointed May 2026. Previously Executive Group Director Sales & Business Development at MBDA.
- Lorenzo Masia
Executive Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich.
- Lorenzo Rossi
CEO of Movyon, leading the company's mission as the first technological operator for motorway and urban mobility.
- Lorenzo Rossi
CEO (Amministratore Delegato) of Movyon, the technology hub of the Autostrade per l'Italia Group, since its launch in March 2021. Previously General Manager at ...
- Lorenzo Simonelli
Chairman and CEO of Baker Hughes, an energy technology company providing solutions for energy and industrial sectors including robotics and automation.
- Louis Lian
VP of Partnerships and Strategy at Lightwheel.
- Lu Cewu
Co-founder and CEO of Noematrix Intelligence (Noin Intelligence). Special researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and former Stanford AI post-doc. Leading e...
- Lu Ouyang
Founder and CEO of Anycubic. Childhood friend of co-founder Dr. James Ouyang. Founded Anycubic in 2015 in Shenzhen.
- Lu Xiangyang
Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of BYD Company. Born 1962 in Anhui, China. Began his career at a local branch of the People's Bank of China befo...
- Lu Ying
President of Excelland AI (Shenzhen Uditech), leading the company's indoor and outdoor delivery robot business since its 2013 founding.
- Luca Rossettini
Founder and CEO of D-Orbit, a space logistics company pioneering orbital transfer vehicles with its ION Satellite Carrier. Italian aerospace engineer who served...
- Luca Savi
CEO of ITT Inc. (parent of Enidine).
- Luca Verre
Co-founder and CEO of [Prophesee](/companies/prophesee) (formerly Chronocam), a Paris-based company pioneering neuromorphic event-based vision sensors. Holds a ...
- Lucas Manuelli
PhD in EECS from MIT (2020). Former member of MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on Dense Object Nets for learning dense visual object descriptors for...
- Lucas Raskin
Co-founder and CEO of Guardian RF, a counter-drone defense company building passive radio-frequency sensors that detect, locate, and classify drone threats to p...
- Lucien Blondel
Co-founder and CTO of Quantum Surgical, previously worked with Bertin Nahum at Medtech SA.
- Lucien Miller
Lucien Miller is President of SunnySky, associated with the SunnySky motor owner's club community and representing the brand in RC model communities.
- Lucilla Sioli
Director of AI and Digital Industry at the European Commission; key figure shaping EU AI Act regulations affecting robotics
- Ludovic Righetti
Co-director of NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO). Over 70 NYU faculty in the center, raised more than 0M in research funding.
- Ludvig Fredholm
Founder of ASEA (later ABB), the Swedish electrical engineering company.
- Luigi Panzetti
CEO of System Logistics S.p.A. Led the company's US expansion including the Vertique acquisition from Illinois Tool Works.
- Luis Muller
CEO of Cohu.
- 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.
- Luis Silva
Founder and CEO of CloudWalk, a Brazilian fintech company building an interplanetary payment network. Born in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, and rose from humble be...
- Lukas Biewald
Co-founder & CEO of Weights & Biases (now GM under CoreWeave). Previously founded Figure Eight (crowdsourcing/ML training data, acquired by Appen). Angel invest...
- Lukas Silberbauer
Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010.
- Lukas Zanger
Co-founder of Magazino GmbH, Munich-based mobile robotics company.
- Lukasz Ostrowski
Global Head of Embodied AI & Robotics at SAP Research & Innovation. Leads SAP's robotics and physical AI initiatives, including humanoid robot pilots across war...
- Luke Allen
Co-founder and CTO of Allen Control Systems, developing AI-driven robotic manufacturing.
- Luke Holoubek
Co-founder and engineer at The Bot Company, a San Francisco robotics startup founded by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. Previously served as technical advisor to t...
- Luke Mooney
Co-Founder and CEO of Dephy, Inc. PhD, MIT. Leading creation of bionic footwear — the world's first powered ankle wearable (Dephy Sidekick). Spun out of MIT Med...
- Luke Schlueter
Co-founder of Spyce (Infinite Kitchen) and MIT '16 mechanical engineering graduate. Co-founded the robotic kitchen startup with fellow MIT fraternity brothers t...
- Lum Guo Zhan
Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ([NTU Robotics](/companies/ntu-ro...
- 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
Founder and CEO of SIYI Technology. Recognized as a '2025 China Low-Altitude Economy Navigator' at the 10th UAV 100 Conference. Led the company through eight ye...
- Lynden Bass
Chief Financial Officer and Director of DIH Holding US.
- M. Amy Gilliland
Executive Vice President and President, GDIT (General Dynamics Information Technology) at General Dynamics.
- M. Brian Blake
President of Georgia State University.
- M.T. Liao
Co-founder of ASUS.
- Ma Jie
CTO of Weilan, a Chinese robotics and AI company developing service robots and intelligent systems.
- Ma Yunshuang
Former Deputy Party Secretary, Director and President of [CRRC Corporation](/companies/crrc), the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer. Born 1971, PhD, se...
- Maarten Kuijk
Professor at VUB and co-founder of Optrima, the VUB spin-off that developed 3D time-of-flight sensor technology. His research in high-speed data communication a...
- Mabby Amouie
Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Data & Analytics at Norfolk Southern, leading the company's AI strategy including autonomous track inspection and digital...
- Mack Traynor
CEO of ReconRobotics, leading the tactical micro-robot company serving military and law enforcement markets.
- Mads Bendt
CEO and co-founder of Capra Robotics, Danish autonomous mobile robot company.
- Mads Clausen
Founder of Danfoss.
- Mahisorn Wongphati
Mahisorn Wongphati is CEO at HG Robotics.
- Mahito Shikama
Director and Executive Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Chief Transformation Officer; Chief Officer, Corporate Strategy Operations; Chief Officer, Traffic Safet...
- Mairead Lavery
CEO of Export Development Canada.
- 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...
- Maja Mataric
USC professor and founding director of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center; expert in socially assistive humanoid robotics
- Majid Al Suwaidi
CEO of Altérra, focused on Global South investment.
- Makoto Takahashi
CEO of KDDI. Strategic investor in robotics including RealWorld.
- Makoto Uchida
President and CEO of Nissan Motor.
- Mal Crease
Founder and CEO of Kraken Technology Group.
- Malavika Sagar
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for TE Connectivity. Leads a global team driving talent strategy for TE's more than 90,000 employees. Jo...
- Malcolm Fraser
Co-founder of Genuine Parts Company.
- Manal Habib
Founder and CEO of MightyFly, a San Francisco-based autonomous cargo drone company founded in October 2019. A graduate of both MIT and Stanford, she developed e...
- Manesh Jain
Co-founder and CEO of Flo Mobility, a 3x serial entrepreneur (SourceWeb, ProcurePack, Mockbank) based in Bengaluru, India. Previously founded an edtech startup ...
- Manfred Sticksel
Founder of Allied Vision.
- Manish Jha
CTO of Addverb, leading technology for warehouse automation and mobile robots.
- Manoj Puranik
Founder, President and CEO of Atlantic.Net, a global cloud infrastructure provider. Known as Marty Puranik.
- Manuel Frey
Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH. Worked with Jens Riegger on robotics research before starting the company in 2017.
- Mao Chao
Yunqi Partners. Chinese internet/robotics VC.
- Maor Farid
Co-founder of Flytrex, building autonomous drone delivery systems for food and retail.
- Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). 19 robotics/physical AI participations including Mind Robotics, Even Realities, OpenRouter.
- Marc Dassler
CEO and co-founder of Energy Robotics, an AI software platform for industrial inspection robots.
- Marc Etkind
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Computer History Museum, appointed effective April 14 2025.
- Marc Freese
Founder and CEO of Coppelia Robotics, developer of the CoppeliaSim robot simulation software.
- Marc Grossman
Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.
- Marc Jarrault
CEO of Aldebaran (SoftBank Robotics Europe); overseeing Pepper, NAO, and new-generation Plato humanoid robot development
- Marc Killpack
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. Director, RAD Lab. Soft/compliant robot control, human-robot co-manipulation. PhD Georgia Tech.
- Marc Lipschultz
Co-CEO of Blue Owl Capital (NYSE: OWL). Leads the firm alongside Doug Ostrover; publicly discussed the IPI Partners acquisition on CNBC.
- Marc Llistosella
CEO of Knorr-Bremse AG since January 1 2023. Contract renewed for five years in January 2025.
- Marc Rosen
CEO of Catalyst Brands.
- Marc Rowan
Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management. Named to Barron's 2025 Top CEO list.
- Marc Schaad
CEO of Kistler Group since January 2025.
- Marc Segura
Executive linked to registry companies.
- 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...
- Marcel Dassault
Founder of Dassault Aviation and Dassault Falcon.
- Marcel Woestenburg
Chief Operating Officer (interim) at DeltaQuad B.V., a Dutch VTOL UAV manufacturer for defence applications. Joined DeltaQuad in January 2025 to lead operationa...
- Marcelo Becker
Associate Professor in the Mechatronics Department at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), where he directs the [Mobile Robotics Lab](/com...
- Marcio Macedo
Co-founder and VP of Product at Ava Robotics (founded 2016); previously Director of Product Management for commercial robots at iRobot, with prior product-manag...
- Marco Giordani
Group CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE since October 2025, appointed following MFE-MediaForEurope's takeover. Three decades of leadership in finance and media.
- 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 Hutter
Professor of Robotic Systems at ETH Zurich, director of the Robotic Systems Lab and the Center for Robotics, and the Zurich office lead of the National Center o...
- Marco Maggiali
Marco Maggiali is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Marco Monteiro
Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA). Co-founded with Jake Loosararian in 2013. Background in robotics engineering.
- Marco Negrete
Researcher and lecturer at the UNAM Biorobotics Lab, leading the Pumas DSPL team working with the Toyota HSRB (Takeshi) robot. Specialist in computer vision and...
- Marco Pistoia
CEO of IonQ Italia and SVP of Special Projects at [IonQ](/companies/ionq). Former Head of Global Technology Applied Research and Global Head of Quantum Computin...
- Marcos Galperin
Argentine technology entrepreneur and co-founder of [Mercado Libre](/companies/mercado-libre), Latin America’s largest publicly listed technology company. Born ...
- Marcus Behrendt
Managing partner BMW i Ventures. Figure AI investor.
- Marcus Gerhardt
Co-founder and CEO of Blackrock Neurotech, a Salt Lake City-based brain-computer interface platform company. Holds an MPhil from Oxford and an MA from St. Andre...
- Marcus Kneifel
Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at onsemi.
- Maren Bennewitz
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn. Head of the Humanoid Robots Lab.
- Margaret Coad
Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame, director of the Innovative Robotics and Interactive Systems (IRIS) Lab. 2025 inaugural mentorship award recipie...
- Margi R. Vagell
Executive Vice President, Supply Chain at Lowe's Companies, Inc. Promoted to EVP of Supply Chain in January 2024, succeeding the retiring Don Frieson. A Lowe's ...
- Maria Bualat
Maria Bualat is the Astrobee Project Manager in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center. She led the Astrobee on-orbit commissioning and has...
- Maria de Lourdes Zollo
Co-founder and CEO of Bee, the wearable AI assistant company. Previously worked at Squad and Twitter. Bee was acquired by Amazon in 2025.
- Maria Telleria
CTO and co-founder of Canvas. Studied mechanical engineering at MIT and spent her career in robotics.
- Marina Umaschi Bers
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at KinderLab Robotics, maker of the KIBO screen-free robotics kit for early childhood STEM education. She is an Augustus Long Pro...
- Marius Fehr
Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the Zurich aerial-robotics company behind the Voliro T contact-inspection drone.
- Marius Klimavičius
Founder and CEO of Blackswan Space, a Vilnius-based space-tech startup building satellite autonomy software. Educated at the University of Southampton.
- Mariya Trickett
Chief People Officer at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Mark
Founder of Shenzhen QI Technology Co., Ltd., the company behind the DOGCOM brand of LiPo batteries for FPV drones, RC vehicles, and airsoft applications. The co...
- 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 Czaja
Vice President and Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Parker Hannifin Corporation, effective January 2021. Oversees technology and innovation strategy acr...
- Mark D Gross
Co-founder of Modular Robotics; academic researcher in computational design and modular robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Mark DeSantis
CEO of [Bloomfield Robotics](/companies/bloomfield-robotics) (2019–2024), a Pittsburgh AgTech company acquired by [Kubota Corporation](https://www.kubota.com) i...
- Mark Folmer
President of Robotic Assistance Devices. Former VP of Security & Industry at RAD with extensive experience in the security services industry.
- Mark George
President and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation, appointed September 2024 after previously serving as EVP and CFO. Has over 30 years of experience in transpor...
- Mark Grant
CEO of Lifeward since June 2, 2025. Former VP at Medtronic (2004-2023) with 30 years of commercial leadership in healthcare technology.
- Mark Hartley
CEO of EDF Energy Hinkley Point C.
- Mark Henderson
Chief Commercial Officer at Rocsys.
- Mark Honeywell
Founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co (1906).
- Mark Kunar
Mark Kunar is CEO at DHL Supply Chain.
- Mark L. Burns
Executive Vice President and President, Gulfstream at General Dynamics.
- Mark Mak
Co-Founder and Director of Roborn Technology, a Hong Kong robotics company he founded in 2017 with Eden Lu and Professor Larry Poon. Invented the Motion Control...
- Mark McComiskey
Mark McComiskey is co-founder and CEO of AVAIO Digital, bringing two decades of experience in private equity and infrastructure investing; he founded the compan...
- 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 Murphy
EVP and Chief Financial Officer at Micron Technology.
- 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 Palatucci
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Anki, a consumer robotics company known for Cozmo, Overdrive, and Vector robots. PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon Un...
- Mark Peller
Chief Operating Officer of United Launch Alliance (ULA), responsible for Atlas and Vulcan launch vehicle programs including design, engineering, integration, pr...
- Mark Pivac
CEO of FBR Limited (Fastbrick Robotics), an Australian robotic technology company developing automated bricklaying systems. Primary inventor of the technology.
- 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 Rutte
Secretary General of NATO. Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Leading NATO's adoption of autonomous systems, AI, and robotics for defense including UGVs ...
- Mark S. Blanchard
Founder and registered agent of MSB Global Services, established in 2009. Leading the development of the Matrix Center AI data center campus in Sulphur Springs,...
- Mark Saffman
Chief Scientist for Quantum Information at [Infleqtion](/companies/infleqtion) and Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
- Mark Sagar
Double Academy Award-winning CGI researcher. Co-founder and former Chief Science Officer of Soul Machines. Director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies a...
- Mark Seeger
Co-CEO and Founder of Glydways, the South San Francisco-based personal rapid transit company he founded in 2016 to deliver on-demand autonomous transit on dedic...
- Mark Siegel
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures. 5 robotics/physical AI participations.
- 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 ...
- Mark Teolis
Co-founder of Aptum (Peer 1 Network).
- Mark Thompson
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of [PsiQuantum](/companies/psiquantum), with 20+ years of experience in photonic and quantum technologies. Professor of ...
- Mark Toland
CEO of MMI (Medical Microinstruments). Experienced medtech executive leading the commercialization of the Symani Surgical System globally.
- Mark Yim
Faculty Director of the GRASP Lab Design Studio and Asa Whitney Professor at UPenn. Named GRASP Lab Director alongside CJ Taylor as Deputy Director.
- Marko Bjelonic
Co-founder and CEO of RIVR (Swiss legged-delivery robotics, ex-ETH Zurich).
- 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...
- Marko Tulokas
CEO of Konecranes, a Finnish lifting equipment company developing automated and robotic crane systems for industrial applications.
- Marko Tulokas
President and CEO of Konecranes since June 2025.
- Markus Achtelik
CTO of Auterion, developing open-source robotics operating systems.
- Markus Asch
CEO of Interroll Group since March 2025.
- Markus Bernsteiner
CEO of Stadler Rail AG since June 2019.
- Markus Forschner
Deputy chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since July 1, 2026. Member of the board of management and Chief Financial Officer since January ...
- Markus Greiner
Co-founder of QuEra. Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Expert in ultracold atomic gases and quantum optics.
- Markus Heyn
Deputy chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since July 1, 2026. Chairman of the Mobility business sector since January 2022. Responsible for...
- 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 Krebber
CEO of RWE, a German energy company focused on renewable power generation and conventional energy assets.
- Markus Miele
Executive Director and Co-Proprietor of the Miele Group a leading German premium domestic appliance manufacturer. Fourth generation family leader.
- Markus Schlitt
CEO of Holon (Benteler's autonomous-shuttle brand) since May 2025, leading the HOLON mover toward series production.
- Markus Steilemann
CEO of Covestro.
- Markus Willems
Co-founded Rowa in 1996 and served as Managing Director, building it into one of Europe's leading pharmacy robotics companies with 3,500+ installations across 3...
- Markus Wirth
Markus Wirth is an executive at the Wirth Group, representing the company in its joint venture with profine Group to found profine Energy GmbH in 2022. He bring...
- Marshall Choy
Chief Business Officer of Rebellions, driving global expansion.
- Marta P. Estarellas
Became CEO of Qilimanjaro in 2023, bringing fresh leadership and a renewed strategic vision.
- Martin Back
CEO of BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH (now Forward AM).
- Martin Casado
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading the firm's infrastructure and AI practice. Co-founder and former CTO of Nicira Networks, the software-defined net...
- Martin Cotter
Senior Vice President, Vertical Business Units and President, ADI EMEA at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Martin de los Santos
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of [Mercado Libre](/companies/mercado-libre) since January 2024. Previously served as Senior VP and CFO fro...
- Martin Elbs
20+ years in automotive, engineering, and industrial markets. Former SVP and CCO at IPG Automotive. Previously at Lotus Engineering and ETAS.
- Martin Frost
Co-founded CMR Surgical in 2014 and served as CEO. CBE recipient with over 20 years of commercial leadership experience.
- Martin Gadient
Co-founder of KEMARO, leading strategic partnerships and innovation for the Swiss autonomous industrial cleaning robot company founded in 2016.
- Martin Hermann
Founder, CEO and Chairman of BrightNight. Previously founded 8minutenergy and served as its CEO. Serial entrepreneur in renewable energy.
- 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...
- Martin Hitch
Co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Bossa Nova Robotics (now Badger Technologies), a retail robotics company.
- Martin Ludvigsen
Co-founder and board member of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015). Blueye was founded in Trondheim with roots in the Centre for Autonomous Mar...
- Martin Lundstedt
CEO and President of Volvo Group.
- Martin Naughton
Founder of Glen Dimplex, an Irish industrial group providing heating and appliance manufacturing.
- Martin Roche, MD
Orthopedic surgeon and international pioneer in robotic and sensor-assisted knee surgery. Dr. Roche performed the world’s first robotic-assisted partial and tot...
- Martin Schwarz
Co-founder of Synapticon in 2012. Electrical engineer who, together with Nikolai Ensslen and Andrija Feher, discovered the potential of combining electronics, m...
- Martin Sion
Chairman and CEO of Alstom, leading the French rail transport manufacturer with 86,000 employees and 18.48 billion euros in revenue.
- Martin Zimmer
Founder and CEO of Zimmer Group, a global innovator in clamping technology and automation.
- Martin-Devid Herrenknecht
Member of the Executive Board of Herrenknecht AG since August 2022, responsible for the Business Area Mining and Production, Procurement and Logistics. Son of f...
- Maruthi Akella
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin. Leads research on algorithmic foundations for coordination of multiple air and ground...
- Marvin R. Ellison
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW), a FORTUNE 100 home improvement retailer with 1,700+ stores and ~300,000 a...
- 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...
- Masafumi Senzaki
President and Executive Officer of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6305). Leads the company's transition to the LANDCROS brand and open autonomy ...
- Masahiro Kihara
President and CEO of Mizuho Financial Group.
- Masahiro Mori
Japanese roboticist and professor emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology; originator of the 'uncanny valley' hypothesis
- 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...
- Masahiro Otake
Chairman and CEO of Koito Manufacturing.
- Masahiro Shimizu
Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of [ZEALS](/companies/zeals). Founded ZEALS in 2014 as a freshman at Meiji University, initially pursuing robotics before...
- Masakatsu Fujie
Longtime professor at Waseda University. Led teams that developed an intelligent mobile robot and a remote control manipulator. Pioneering researcher in robotic...
- Masaki Miyazawa
Vice President, Corporate Liaison at Epson America, the North and Latin American arm of Seiko Epson Corporation. Responsible for facilitating strategic alignmen...
- Masanori Togawa
CEO and President of Daikin Industries, Ltd. since 2014
- Masao Kawaguchi
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Chief Officer, Corporate Administration Operations.
- Masaru Ibuka
Co-founder of Sony Corporation, pioneered transistor radios and consumer electronics.
- Masaru Yoda
Representative Director, President and CEO of INNOPHYS.
- Masashi Nagayasu
CEO of Panasonic Automotive Systems Co.
- Masato Morishima
CFO of Turing. Dartmouth Tuck School MBA. Former Morgan Stanley Menlo Park tech banker, ex-CFO of oVice. Joined Turing as CFO in July 2024.
- Masato Ozawa
CEO of Panasonic Industry.
- Masatoshi Kumagai
Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of GMO Internet Group, Inc. Chairman of GMO AI & Robotics Corporation.
- Masayoshi Son
Founder and CEO of SoftBank Group. SoftBank Vision Fund is the largest tech investment fund, backing Skild AI, NEURA Robotics, Saronic, Agility Robotics, and ma...
- Masayuki Ishizaki
Representative Director and CEO of Ascent Robotics.
- Masayuki Ishizaki
Representative Director and CEO of Ascent Robotics.
- Masayuki Ishizaki
CEO of Ascent.
- Masayuki Moriyama
Former president of Komatsu's Mining Business Division. Led the AHS program during the 700th truck milestone in 2024.
- Mason Jappa
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Former CEO.
- Mason Jappa
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Former CEO removed by board June 2026.
- Masoud Doolabi
Founder and Director at Microhard Systems N.V. with 24 years of experience in computer and networking fields. Expert in windows networking.
- 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...
- Matei Ciocarlie
Columbia University professor and co-founder of Myomo's research program; expert in robotic grasping, dexterous hands, and assistive robotics
- Matej Cernosek
Co-founder & CEO of Andrenam. California-based maritime technology startup building AI-powered undersea sensing networks. 8M Series A funding.
- Mathew D Souza
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Deceased.
- Mathew D Souza
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Deceased.
- Mathew DeDonato
Director of Robotic Systems at Figure AI; previously at Woven Planet / Toyota Research Institute.
- Mathias Carlbaum
President and CEO of Navistar International from September 2021 until the Traton acquisition. Previously Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations at Scan...
- Mathias Miedreich
Chief Executive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, effective October 1, 2025, succeeding Holger Klein. Joined ZF's Board of Management in January 2025 as head of...
- Mathias Weyel
Executive leading Daimler Buses, the bus manufacturing division of Mercedes-Benz Group.
- Mathieu Friedberg
Former CEO of CEVA Logistics, led the company through its acquisition by CMA CGM.
- Mathieu Goy
Head of Sales Europe at RGo Robotics. Leads European market expansion and sales operations.
- Mathieu Johnsson
CEO and Founder of Marble (marble.aero), a drone services company providing maritime monitoring.
- Mathieu Letombe
CEO of Withings, the French connected-health-device company. Not a company founder.
- Mati Staniszewski
Co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022 to build ultra-realistic AI voice synthesis.
- Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic is the Founder & CEO of Hop Aero (YC S26). Previously CEO at porkchop (electric propulsion for small satellites), launched on SpaceX Transporte...
- Matt A'Hearn
Managing Partner and Founder of IPI Partners; became Head of Blue Owl's digital infrastructure strategy following the October 2024 acquisition.
- Matt Anderson
CEO of A&K Robotics, developing autonomous passenger mobility pods for airports.
- Matt Angle
Founder and CEO of Paradromics, an Austin-based neurotechnology company building high-data-rate brain-computer interfaces to restore communication and autonomy ...
- Matt Ausman
Chief Information Officer of Zebra Technologies since August 2022. Oversees the digital systems that drive productivity and transformation. Previously held IT l...
- Matt Barnard
Founder and CEO of Plenty, a vertical farming company using indoor hydroponic systems for sustainable agriculture.
- 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 Delaney
Founder and CEO of Marble, a robot delivery company.
- Matt Flood
ForestSight product marketing manager at John Deere, leading the TimberMatic Maps and TimberManager precision forestry product lines. Has been the public spokes...
- Matt Garman
Matt Garman is CEO of Amazon Web Services as of June 2024, succeeding Adam Selipsky; he was one of AWS's earliest product managers, joining in 2006 and driving ...
- Matt Gerber
CEO of Digital Fortress, a colocation and managed services data center company.
- Matt Gialich
Co-founder and CEO of AstroForge. Previously engineer at SpaceX and Virgin Orbit.
- Matt Golden
Founder and Managing Partner of [Golden Ventures](/investors/golden-ventures), a Toronto-based seed-stage venture capital fund he established in 2011 as one of ...
- Matt Grimm
Co-founder and COO of Anduril Industries; previously at Palantir Technologies.
- Matt Harris
Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Matt Higgins
Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Performance Drone Works (PDW). Also co-founder and CEO of RSE Ventures, a private investment firm focused on sports, entert...
- Matt Khoshdarregi
P.Eng. and Ph.D. founder of the University of Manitoba Intelligent Digital Manufacturing Lab, now CEO and co-founder of TetraGen Robotics.
- Matt Kinsella
CEO & Founding Investor of Infleqtion, leading the company's quantum technology commercialization and growth.
- Matt Kong
Chief Business Officer at Bitdeer, serving as the company's primary public-facing executive for operational and financial updates. Leads business strategy acros...
- 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 McDonald
President and CEO of Eagle Power & Equipment, a material handling equipment dealer.
- Matt McKenzie
CEO of Same Sky (formerly CUI Devices).
- 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 Miller
Founder, President & CTO of MobileDemand. Started the company in 2003 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after identifying a mobile computing need at Anheuser-Busch beer who...
- Matt Murphy
Chairman and CEO of Marvell Technology.
- Matt Ocko
Co-founder of DCVC (Data Collective). 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Sabanto, Burro.
- Matt Pfile
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Crane Data Centers, developing and operating sustainable data centers.
- 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 Rutherford
Associate Professor; Deputy Director DU2SRI. Autonomous systems, embedded systems.
- Matt Schultz
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of CleanSpark (CLSK), America's largest publicly-traded Bitcoin miner by hashrate. Founded CleanSpark in 2014 and served as CEO unt...
- Matt Sloane
Pilot, 10+ year Industry Expert, EMS Chief (Ret.), Former CNN Medical News Producer.
- 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...
- Matt Sweeny
Executive in the technology/robotics industry, linked to registry companies.
- 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 Lorber
Matthew Lorber is the President, Treasurer, and Chief Executive Officer of Copley Controls Corp. He led the company through its 2008 acquisition by Analogic Cor...
- Matthew McMullen
COO of [Realbotix](/companies/realbotix) (OTC: XBOTF). Founder of Abyss Creations, maker of RealDoll — the originator of the realistic humanoid figure lineage t...
- Matthew Ondler
CEO of Houston Mechatronics. Former NASA robotics leader.
- 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...
- Matthew T. Mason
Chief Scientist and Vice President at Berkshire Grey (2014–present). Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he...
- Matthew Wansley
Matthew Wansley is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he studies the intersection of law, technology, and ...
- Matthias Biegl
Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010. Developed rugged ground robots for industrial inspection and firefighting.
- Matthias Ginthum
CEO of BSH Hausgeraete (Bosch Home Appliances).
- Matthias Jörg
Co-founder of Hocoma, a biomedical engineer who helped establish the company in 1996 alongside Gery Colombo and Peter Hostettler.
- Matthias Lapp
CEO of LAPP Group.
- Matthias Moroder
Co-founder and CTO of FlyingBasket, a heavy-lift cargo drone manufacturer and operator based in Bolzano, Italy. Founded FlyingBasket in 2015 with his brother Mo...
- Matthias Rebellius
CEO of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Member of the Managing Board.
- Matthieu Claybrough
CEO of Donecle.
- Matthieu Lapeyre
Co-founder and former CEO of Pollen Robotics (2016–2025). Former INRIA researcher. Now Head of Robotics Product and Hardware at Pollen Robotics following Huggin...
- 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...
- Matthijs Glastra
Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of Novanta Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVT), the parent company of Celera Motion. Led the acquisition of Schneider Electric Motion (r...
- Mattia Tabaglio
Co-founder & CTO of Agade. Leads technology development for the AGADEXO exoskeleton platform.
- Maurice Goldberg
Founder of Arrow Electronics (Arrow Radio).
- Maurie McInnis
President of Yale University.
- 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.
- Maurizio Porfiri
Professor at NYU Tandon, Director of the Riviere Robot Lab. Research in robotics and dynamical systems.
- Max Benassi
Co-founder and CTO of Apex Space. Previously spent 6+ years at SpaceX as senior propulsion engineer working on Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starlink, then served...
- Max Friefeld
Co-founder and CEO of Voodoo Manufacturing.
- Max Gisbert Kley
CEO of Laird Thermal Systems (now Tark Thermal Solutions) since April 2025.
- Max Haot
CEO of Vast Space. Previously founder and CEO of Launcher, acquired by Vast in February 2023. Prior to Launcher, founded StageIt and SecondLift.
- Max Hodak
Founder and CEO of Science Corporation, a neurotechnology company developing retinal implants and brain-computer interfaces to restore vision, cognition, and mo...
- Max Justicz
Co-founder of Charge Robotics (founded 2021), which builds robots that automate utility-scale solar construction; MIT alum.
- Max Kley
CEO of Laird Thermal Systems since April 2025.
- Max Larin
Co-founder and CEO of XIMEA.
- Max Larin
Co-founder, co-owner and CEO of XIMEA. Entrepreneur in imaging and machine vision technologies. Founded XIMEA and grew it from zero to €20M sales.
- Max Ruffo
Founded Terabee as a CERN technology partner specializing in Time-of-Flight sensor technology.
- Max Warburton
Chief Financial Officer of Wayve; previously an adviser to the Mercedes-Benz board and a Managing Partner / auto analyst at Bernstein.
- Max Weishaupt
Founder of Weishaupt, a German industrial company providing heating, cooling, and energy systems.
- Max Windisch
Co-founded Vention in 2016 with Etienne Lacroix to build a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform.
- Maxim Lobovsky
Co-founder and CEO of Formlabs, the Somerville, MA-based 3D-printing company he founded in 2011 with David Cranor and Natan Linder out of an MIT Media Lab basem...
- 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...
- Maximilian Wied
Co-founder and CFO of ARX Robotics, a Munich-based defense robotics company. Former German Bundeswehr officer with first-hand insight into military operational ...
- Maxwell Becton
Co-founder of Becton Dickinson.
- Maxwell Lee
Chinese American entrepreneur, co-founded Autel Robotics in 2014 in Shenzhen.
- Megan Brooks-Anderson
CEO of Blockware, appointed June 2026. Formerly Chief Operating Officer of Riot Platforms and Chief Strategy Officer at Blockware. 20+ years in Bitcoin mining, ...
- Megan Quinn
General Partner at Spark Capital. Robotics/physical AI portfolio.
- Megi Mejdrechová
Co-founder and CTO of RoboTwin s.r.o. Mechanical engineer trained at Czech Technical University in Prague; developed the core motion-imitation technology. Named...
- 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 ...
- Meitaro Takeuchi
Founder of Komatsu, the Japanese construction and mining equipment manufacturer.
- Mel Torrie
CEO and co-founder of Autonomous Solutions Inc. Founded the company in 2000 in Mendon, Utah.
- Mel Torrie
Founder of ASI Mining.
- Melanie Stricklan
Co-founder and former CEO of [Slingshot Aerospace](/companies/slingshot-aerospace), an El Segundo-based space intelligence and simulation company building the w...
- Melinda Whittington
President and CEO of La-Z-Boy Incorporated. Appointed CEO in April 2021.
- Melissa L. Gilliam
11th President of Boston University since July 1, 2024. Esteemed interdisciplinary researcher.
- Melker Jernberg
President and CEO of Volvo Construction Equipment.
- 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...
- Melvin Jack Murdock
American businessman, philanthropist, and radio technician from Portland, Oregon. Co-founded Tektronix in 1946 as an equal partnership with Howard Vollum, Miles...
- Melvin Schwarz
Co-founder and Managing Director of [Nucleus Robotics](/companies/nucleus-robotics), a German humanoid robotics deployment company that exited stealth in August...
- Merritt Gaunt
President and CEO of Guardian Industries, a Koch company and leading glass manufacturer. Appointed January 2026, succeeding Ron Vaupel.
- Metin Bayram
President and CEO of TrellisWare Technologies, leading the company to 200,000+ TSM-enabled radios deployed globally and multiple Top Workplace awards.
- Micael Johansson
CEO of Saab. Defense aerospace including autonomous systems.
- Micael Johansson
CEO of Saab AB.
- Michael Antonov
Co-founder of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform, a UI middleware company acquired by Autodesk.
- Michael Beer
Chief Financial Officer at Agility Robotics (joined July 2026). Former CFO and Head of Corporate Services at Energy Vault Holdings (NYSE: NRGV). Previously seni...
- Michael Brandstötter
Co-founder of Cogvis GmbH. Founded Cogvis in 2007 as a spin-off from Vienna University of Technology, building AI-based fall prevention and monitoring systems f...
- Michael Bridges
CEO of Picnic Works, a food automation company developing robotic pizza assembly systems for high-volume production.
- Michael Briggs
President of Nidec Shimpo Corporation.
- Michael Chen
MIT dropout and robotics researcher; co-founder and CEO of Yondu AI, a Y Combinator W24 company building robots to automate fulfillment. Background in intellige...
- Michael Chiang
Rotating Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) since April 1, 2026, for a one-year term. Concurrently leads the Group's smart consumer...
- Michael Cho
Chief Strategy Officer of Zebra Technologies since 2010. Guides Zebra's strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and venture investments. Holds an MBA from Harvard B...
- Michael Coulter
Former Leonardo DRS International president, hired in Dec 2024 as Hanwha Aerospace's first foreign global defense business chief. Previously served at the U.S. ...
- Michael Dastoor
CEO of Jabil Inc. since 2024, joined the company in 2000. Previously served as CFO.
- Michael Dell
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. Founded Dell in 1984.
- Michael Doogue
President & CEO of Allegro MicroSystems. Hall-effect sensors and motor driver ICs for automotive, ADAS, AI data center, and robotics applications.
- Michael Drodofsky
Co-founder of NEOintralogistics.
- Michael Farid
MIT mechanical engineering graduate (BS 2014, SM 2016) and co-founder & CEO of Spyce, the robotic kitchen startup. Farid conceived the idea of automating meal p...
- Michael Federmann
Co-CEO of Elbit Systems, the Israeli defense electronics and military systems company.
- 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 Fiddelke
Chief Executive Officer of [Target Corporation](/companies/target) since February 1, 2026, succeeding Brian Cornell. Began his Target career as an intern in 200...
- 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 G. Potter
Chief Financial Officer of Bitdeer Technologies Group.
- Michael Halbherr
Co-founder of German Bionic.
- Michael Heckmeier
CEO of Siltronic AG.
- Michael Hoffmann
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of NXP Semiconductors. Leads legal affairs and corporate governance.
- 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 Hsing
Founder and CEO of Monolithic Power Systems. Founded MPS in 1997. Leading power electronics solutions for robotics motor drivers, motor controllers, and humanoi...
- Michael Hsu
Chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
- Michael Intrator
Co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave.
- Michael Intrator
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CoreWeave, the AI hyperscaler powering AI at production scale.
- Michael Jones
President and CEO of Positec Americas, leading US retail market growth and commercial space penetration under the Kress brand.
- Michael Kaplan
Founder and CEO of Belltown Power (UK), now Non-Executive Director for the US entity. Previously Partner at Albion Ventures.
- Michael Kaplan
Founder and CEO of Belltown Power, an international renewable energy company founded in 2013.
- Michael Kopet
Chief Financial Officer of Apex Space, appointed June 2026. Previously VP of Finance at Axon.
- Michael Kotlikoff
15th President of Cornell University since March 2025.
- Michael Larsson
President of Dematic Corp and member of KION Group executive board.
- Michael Lawless
Chief Financial Officer of ReWalk Robotics (now Lifeward), a medical device company developing exoskeleton technologies for individuals with neurological condit...
- Michael Levy
CEO and co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings. Previously held leadership roles in tech.
- Michael Lynton
Chairman of Snap Inc. board of directors. Former CEO of Sony Entertainment; joined Snap board in 2013.
- Michael M Crow
President of Arizona State University.
- Michael Mager
Co-founder and CEO of Precision Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface company developing the Layer 7 Cortical Interface. Previously co-founded Assembly Softw...
- Michael McNamara
Michael McNamara is CEO at Lancium.
- Michael McNeilly
Founder of Applied Materials (founded 1967). Founded Applied Materials Technology at age 28 and issued over 20 patents during his tenure.
- Michael Moritz
Former Partner at Sequoia Capital (1986–2023). Welsh-born journalist-turned-venture-capitalist; studied at Oxford (BA) and Wharton (MBA). Worked as Time magazin...
- 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 Neidorff
CEO of Centene Corporation (1996-2022).
- Michael Neiss
Co-founder and CTO of Rootline Robotics. Electrical and computer engineering major at Cornell University's Duffield College of Engineering (Class of 2027). Lead...
- Michael Newman
P.Eng., M.Sc. Former manufacturing engineer at North America's largest bus manufacturer (NFI). Co-founder, COO and Director of Engineering at TetraGen Robotics.
- Michael Norcia
Co-founder and CEO of Pyka (founded 2017), maker of large autonomous electric aircraft for agricultural spraying (Pelican Spray) and cargo.
- Michael Ourabah
Co-founder of BSO and DataOne. Seasoned entrepreneur with decades of experience in infrastructure and connectivity.
- Michael Pivac
CEO of FBR (Fastbrick Robotics).
- Michael Pivac
CEO of FBR (Fastbrick Robotics).
- Michael Potter
Chief Financial Officer of Bitdeer Technologies Group, appointed effective May 26, 2026, succeeding Jianchun Liu. A veteran public-company finance executive wit...
- Michael Randt
Founder and CEO of [Trinamic Motion Control](/companies/trinamic) (now part of Analog Devices via Maxim Integrated), a Hamburg-based motion control chip company...
- Michael Reip
Co-founder of incubed IT, an Austrian AMR software company acquired by Verizon in February 2021. Holds a PhD from Graz University of Technology. Helped scale in...
- 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 Schoellhorn
CEO of Airbus Defence and Space.
- Michael Sciabarasi
DoD JIATF-401 drone task force.
- Michael Sen
Chief Executive Officer of Fresenius Group. Contract extended by five years in 2026.
- Michael Sims
Founder and CEO of Ceres Robotics, a NASA CLPS company developing lunar landers and rovers. Former VP at Moon Express and 20+ year NASA veteran who worked on Ma...
- Michael Sims
NASA veteran who spent 21 years at NASA JPL working on Mars rover missions and founded the NASA Ames Artificial Intelligence group's field robotics program (Int...
- Michael Sonderby
Acting CEO of SteerAI, an Abu Dhabi-based autonomous vehicle venture spun out of VentureOne (ATRC ecosystem). Former Boston Consulting Group principal who led B...
- Michael Sprang
Vice Chairman of the Board of Management and CFO of Herrenknecht AG. Joined the company in 2010 as assistant to the Chairman; previously worked at Siemens Manag...
- Michael Tang
Senior Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Michael Thompson
CEO of Skyfly Technologies. Built a leading UK commercial drone company delivering UAV surveys, inspections, and filming for global brands. Experienced helicopt...
- Michael Train
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Michael Trzupek
Chief Financial Officer of Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Oversees the company's financial strategy, including its 2026 IPO and subsequent capital raises.
- Michael Tsui
Founder and CEO of Rehab-Robotics Company Limited and Deltason Medical Ltd. Developed the Hand of Hope, the first robotic hand rehabilitation exoskeleton, proto...
- Michael Walker
Assistant professor of computer science at Michigan Tech; research focuses on human-robot interaction and teaming using the Boston Dynamics Spot platform 'Balto...
- Michael Wirth
Michael Wirth is the Managing Partner of the Wirth Group, a German construction and planning company specializing in facilities for food processing companies. T...
- 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.
- Michael Zheng
Founder and CEO of AUBO Robotics. Led the company from its founding in 2015 to become China's #1 cobot manufacturer and #2 globally by sales volume.
- Michal Prywata
Founder of Bionik Laboratories, a robotics company developing wearable exoskeletons for rehabilitation.
- Michel Amar
CEO and Chairman of Digihost, a blockchain technology company.
- Michel Mayer
Chairman of the board at Lupin Dental. Former Chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, the US-based semiconductor company spun out of Motorola. A seasoned s...
- 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...
- Michelle Gilman
Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, appointed by Governor Ned Lamont in February 2022.
- Michelle Lai
Michelle Lai is the CEO of Jinhua Lanhai Photoelectricity Technology Co., Ltd., the parent company of the Pacecat LiDAR brand.
- Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee, PhD is the founder and CEO of Medra, building the first Physical AI Scientist platform. She leads the company's vision of integrating AI scientifi...
- Michelle Yuen
Assistant Professor in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. Research in soft robotics, design and manufacture of soft robotic compon...
- Michio Kashiwagi
President of Fujitec, a Japanese elevator and escalator manufacturer.
- 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...
- Micree Zhan
CEO of Bitmain.
- Miguel Angel Lopez Borrego
CEO of thyssenkrupp AG.
- Miguel Angel López Borrego
CEO of thyssenkrupp AG.
- Miguel Ángel López Borrego
CEO of Thyssenkrupp Steel, a German industrial conglomerate with robotics and automation divisions.
- Miguel de la Iglesia Valls
Co-founder and CTO of Ascento, the Swiss outdoor-security-robot company spun out of ETH Zurich.
- Miika Satori
Founder and CEO of [Cambrian Robotics](/companies/cambrian-robotics), a London-based machine-vision startup building AI-driven vision software and camera hardwa...
- Mika Vehviläinen
Led Cargotec as CEO from 2013 until his retirement in 2023, overseeing the company's growth and the initial planning of the Kalmar separation.
- Mike Barker
President and CEO of Swisslog Americas. Leads Swisslog's warehouse automation business in the Americas region.
- Mike Baughman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Mike Cao Yi
Founder of Source Code Capital. Chinese VC.
- Mike Collins
Founder of Alumni Ventures. Largest VC by deal volume.
- 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 Dooley
Co-founder and CEO of Labrador Systems, developing personal assistive robots for the home. Previously held leadership roles at iRobot.
- Mike Dougherty
Former President of Indian Motorcycle and Polaris International. Led Indian Motorcycle under Polaris ownership for nearly 28 years, growing revenue significantl...
- Mike Flanigan
Co-founder and CEO of Seasats.
- Mike Fuhrmann
Chief Creative Officer at Hocoma, appointed to the executive board in July 2015. Previously worked on brand activation for Zurich, ING, Bayer, DHL, and other gl...
- Mike Futch
President and CEO of Tompkins Robotics, leading the warehouse robotics sortation company and its partnership with Honeywell.
- Mike Goguen
Promus Ventures.
- Mike Hayes
Managing Director at [Insight Partners](https://www.insightpartners.com/team/mike-hayes/) and board member of [Easy Aerial](/companies/easy-aerial). Former COO ...
- Mike Henry
CEO of BHP Group, a global mining company deploying autonomous haul trucks and drilling systems.
- Mike Henry
Co-founder and former CEO of Mythic AI. Pioneered analog compute-in-memory technology for AI inference.
- Mike Howe
Co-founder of Howe & Howe Technologies, the Waterboro, Maine-based defense and emergency response robotics company, now a Textron Systems subsidiary.
- Mike Kennedy
CEO of Indian Motorcycle since February 2026, appointed when Carolwood LP acquired the company from Polaris Inc. to lead America's first motorcycle company (fou...
- Mike Kurdziel
Cloud Lead at Point One Navigation. Previously on Cornell's DARPA Urban Challenge team, engineer at Agilent Technologies and JDS Uniphase, and Principal Enginee...
- Mike Lawless
Chief Financial Officer of Lifeward Ltd.
- Mike Mahoney
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Scientific Corporation. Led the company to 20 percent sales growth in 2025.
- Mike Mancini
Veteran aerospace and deep-tech finance executive. Appointed CFO of Nuro in May 2026 ahead of robotaxi launch.
- Mike Morton
CEO of TTI, Inc. (TTI - electronics distributor). 40+ year veteran of TTI.
- Mike Novogratz
Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, a cryptocurrency investment firm.
- Mike Petters
Former CEO of HII (2008-2022), now Executive Vice Chairman of the Board.
- Mike Pivac
CEO of FBR (Fastbrick Robotics), leading the Australian company developing the Hadrian X autonomous bricklaying robot.
- Mike Riley
CEO of Agovor. 30+ years scaling technology companies, including leading Compac to acquisition by TOMRA. Brought commercial maturity to Agovor's founding team.
- Mike Rogers
Former FBI Drone Program Manager, Police Officer, Pilot, U.S. Air National Guard Veteran.
- Mike Smayda
CEO and Founder of [Fortastra](/companies/fortastra), a Los Angeles-based space defense startup building autonomous escort satellites to defend critical orbital...
- Mike Tinmouth
Co-founded ACUA Ocean with his brother Neil in 2021; serves as Founder & COO. Innovation mentor to the UK Ministry of Defence since 2019. The ACUA Ocean team br...
- Mike Volpi
General Partner at Index Ventures; led investments in multiple robotics companies including Covariant
- Mike Wior
Mike Wior is Co-Founder and CEO of Allen Control Systems. Previously co-founded Bbot, a software and robotics restaurant technology startup.
- Mike Wirth
American businessman, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Chevron Corporation since 2018. Born October 15, 1960. Joined Chevron in 1982 as a design engineer after ...
- Mike Xia
Co-founder and CEO of Anvil Robotics. Previously co-founded Lumina Industries (shipped $15M product to 70 countries) and was Chief Product Officer at Voltage Pa...
- Mike Zelkind
CEO & Co-founder of 80 Acres Farms. Founded in 2015 in Cincinnati. Raised over 50M. Controlled environment agriculture with 50M+ revenue run rate.
- Mike Zelkind
Co-founder and CEO of Kalera (now 80 Acres Farms).
- Mike Zinn
Professor in UW-Madison Department of Mechanical Engineering, promoted for dedication to the robotics field.
- Mikela Druckman
CEO and Co-Founder of Greyparrot, leading the company since 2019. Drives the vision of digitizing the waste value chain with AI.
- Mikey Lucas
Chief Operations Officer at MSB Global Services. Results-driven COO with proven ability to scale complex infrastructure and energy operations for large-scale da...
- 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.
- Mikhail Kokorich
Russian physicist and serial aerospace entrepreneur (born 11 October 1976 in Siberia). Founded Momentus in 2017 to develop water plasma propulsion for in-space ...
- Mikhail Krundyshev
Co-founder of ExoAtlet, a medical exoskeleton company developing powered gait-rehabilitation suits. He brought extensive engineering experience in robotics and ...
- Mikhail Lukin
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of QuEra. Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Pioneer of Rydberg-atom quantum simulators with 200+ publications.
- 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...
- Milton Coleman
Senior VP and General Manager of the Industrial Automation Division at Mitsubishi Electric US. Three decades in the automation industry, including 23 years at B...
- Min Kao
Co-founder of Garmin, the GPS navigation and wearable technology company.
- Min Li
Chief Executive Officer of Fuzhou Rockchip Microelectronics Co Ltd (Rockchip). Selected for Forbes China Best CEOs List in 2025.
- Min Li
CEO of Rockchip.
- Min Yuheng
Co-founder and CEO of Zerith Robotics. Former member of Tsinghua University AI and Robot Lab core team who launched the humanoid robotics startup in January 202...
- Mina Fahmi
Co-founder and CEO of Sandbar, a New York City-based AI hardware startup building the Stream Ring, a wearable AI smart ring for voice-based note-taking and conv...
- 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.
- Mina Rezk
Co-founder and CTO of Aeva, developing 4D LiDAR sensing technology for autonomous systems.
- Minas Liarokapis
CEO of Acumino, a robotics company developing assistive robotic arms for industrial and domestic applications.
- Ming Qin
Chief Executive Officer of Haima Automobile since March 2023, also serving as a board director.
- Mingzhe Chen
Research focuses on ML for wireless networks, federated learning, UAVs/drones, IoT, and 5G/6G systems for autonomous systems; multiple IEEE best paper awards (2...
- MinJun Kim
Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor, ME. PI, BAST Lab. Microbiorobotics, soft robotics, nano/microrobotics. NSF CAREER, ASME Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, NAI Seni...
- Minoo Nam
Korea Development Bank. Korean government.
- 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...
- Mirko Kovac
Honorary Professor in Aerial Robotics at Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics. Heads the Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics at Empa (Zurich) an...
- 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.
- Misa Zhu
Founder and CEO of Rokid. Also known as Zhu Mingming. Previously worked in AI and smart hardware before founding Rokid in 2014.
- Missy Cummings
Professor at George Mason University, co-director of MARC, director of Virginia's first robotics PhD program. Former US Navy fighter pilot, renowned autonomous ...
- Mitch Hourtienne
Chief Commercial Officer at [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), leading commercial strategy, customer engagement, partnerships, and supply chain development. O...
- Mitch Pryor
Mechanical engineering research professor and co-founder of the Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group. Directs the Robotics Center of Excellence and has supervised...
- Mitch Rosenberg
CEO and Co-founder of KinderLab Robotics, maker of the KIBO screen-free robotics kit for early childhood STEM education. He brings over 30 years of experience i...
- Mitch Thornton
Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering. Executive Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity. $2.7M federal grant for autonomous systems cybersecurity tes...
- Mitch Van Dewerker
American aerospace finance executive serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer and VP/Controller for United Launch Alliance (ULA). Joined ULA in 2007 as Direct...
- Mitchell Fonseca
Mitchell Fonseca is COO of Centersquare, formerly COO of Cyxtera Technologies.
- Mitchell Rales
Co-founder of Danaher Corporation.
- Mitsuya Kishida
Japanese business executive serving as Representative Director, President, and CEO of [Nidec Corporation](/companies/nidec) since April 2024. He joined Nidec in...
- Mladen Milicevic
CEO of Unchained Robotics.
- Mo Yilin
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of DexTeleop Robotics (灵御智能). Tenured associate professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. PhD from Carneg...
- Moez Limayem
9th President of the University of South Florida, unanimously selected by the USF Board of Trustees in October 2025. Previously served as dean of USF's Muma Col...
- Mohamed Hage
Founder and CEO of Lufa Farms.
- Mohammad Mahoor
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Denver, leading robotics research on socially assistive companion robots including...
- Mohammed Bakhashwain
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Bitzero Holdings Inc. (CSE: AIBZ). Leads Bitzero, a data center and Bitcoin mining company.
- 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.
- Mohsen Rakhshan
Came to UCF from Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Fellowship; develops non-invasive brain-machine interfaces and neural prostheses for sensory...
- Moju Zhao
Lead researcher on the DRAGON aerial robot project at JSK Lab. Founded the independent DRAGON Lab at the University of Tokyo in April 2024, focusing on articula...
- Moon Hyuksoo
CEO of LG Innotek. Leading robotics camera module partnerships with Boston Dynamics and Figure AI for next-generation robot vision systems.
- Moritz Magnus
Founder of Continental AG.
- Moritz Moroder
Co-founder and CEO of FlyingBasket, the European leader in heavy-lift cargo drones based in Bolzano, Italy. Founded the company in 2015 with his brother Matthia...
- Morley Stone
CEO of IHMC (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition).
- Morten Wierod
President and CEO of [ABB](/companies/abb-robotics) since August 2024, succeeding Björn Rosengren. A Norwegian citizen who joined ABB in 1998 as a graduate engi...
- Moses Guttmann
Co-founder and CEO of [ClearML](/companies/clearml), an open-source MLOps platform for enterprise AI development and deployment. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ ...
- 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.
- Motofumi Shitara
President of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
- Mouad MGhari
Co-founder and CEO of [Harmattan AI](/companies/harmattan-ai), the Paris-based defense AI company (founded April 2024). Admitted to both École Polytechnique and...
- Mridul Babbar
Co-founder of Sagar Defence Engineering. National Award winner and NASA awardee developing unmanned systems for maritime defence applications.
- Mu Feng
Chief Executive Director of Great Wall Motor.
- Mubarak Shah
Trustee Chair Professor of Computer Science at UCF, founding director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) and inaugural director of the UCF Ins...
- Muhammad Alam
Executive Board Member of SAP SE, responsible for SAP Product & Engineering. Oversees product strategy, engineering, and AI-powered product development. Joined ...
- Mukesh Ambani
Chairman and CEO of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company with interests in telecom, energy, and robotics.
- Mun Choi
President of the University of Missouri.
- Munehiro Hosonuma
President and CEO of NSG Group (Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.) since April 2023. Also serves as Representative Executive Officer and Director.
- Mung Chiang
13th President of Purdue University.
- Mustally Hussain
Chief Financial Officer of 1X Technologies; previously Global Treasurer at Lucid Group and senior finance roles at Hyundai Capital and National Grid.
- Muzavar Faraaz Baig
Co-founder of Airbound.
- 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 Goshen
Co-CEO of MakerBot (merged with Ultimaker).
- Nadav Orbach
CEO of Intel RealSense.
- Nadav Shuruk
Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall/painting robotics company.
- Nader Hamda
Founder and CEO of Ozobot (incorporated as Evollve Inc.), a Redondo Beach, CA edtech robotics company he founded in 2012 to teach children coding through screen...
- Nadja Gerber
CFO of KEMARO, overseeing financial operations for the Swiss autonomous industrial cleaning robotics company.
- Naftali Shoham
Founder of Vayyar Imaging. 30+ years experience in signal processing and radio systems.
- Nahid Harjee
Co-founder and inventor. Named on Tacta Systems patents for robotic hand and sensing glove technology.
- Naman Pushp
Founded Airbound in 2020 at age 15. Turned down admission to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue drone development. 20 years old as of Oct 2025.
- Nancy Sun
Co-founder and Chief Engineer of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup. Previously worked at Google, Apple, Otto, and Uber on autonomous vehicle technology. Later...
- Naohiro Yamaguchi
CEO of Isuzu Motors Limited, appointed April 2026.
- Naoki Higashi
Representative Director & President (CEO) of [CYBERLINKS](/companies/cyber-japan) Co., Ltd. (TSE: 3683), a Japanese digital transformation and trust services co...
- Naoki Suganuma
CTO and Co-founder of MoveEz, a professor and pioneer in autonomous driving research with nearly 30 years of experience at Kanazawa University, where he earned ...
- Naotaka Otogawa
CEO of INNOPHYS Co. Ltd.
- Narwal CEO
Narwal Robotics CEO. HongShan-backed, raised $100M. Robot vacuums inflection point predicted by 2029.
- Natalia Kurz
Co-founder and Research Lead at Rootline Robotics. Biological engineering major at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Class of 2029)...
- Natalia Shuman
CEO of MISTRAS Group.
- 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.
- Natan Linder
Co-founder and Chairman of Formlabs, and co-founder and CEO of Tulip, a manufacturing technology (frontline operations platform) company spun out of the MIT Med...
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chairman of Tata Daewoo Mobility and Chairman of Tata Group
- Nate Gemelke
Co-founder and Chief Technology Strategist of QuEra, shaping the company's long-term technical direction across hardware, software, and applications.
- Nate Mitchell
Co-founder of Oculus VR, focused on product development for the Rift and Quest headset line.
- Nathan J. Meisgeier
President and Chief Legal Officer at Werner Enterprises since January 2024. Joined Werner in 2005 after seven years as a litigator at Stinson, Mag and Fizzell. ...
- Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer of Shield AI (since 2018); previously a robotics faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Nathan Mintz
Co-founder and former CEO of Epirus (2018-2020), a counter-drone technology company developing high-power microwave (HPM) systems. Stepped down as Epirus CEO in...
- Nathan Seidle
Founder of SparkFun Electronics, started in 2003 from his college apartment.
- Nathan Winters
Chief Financial Officer of Zebra Technologies since January 2021, after serving as acting CFO from August 2020. Oversees corporate financial planning, commercia...
- Nathan Xu (Xu Gao)
Co-founder and CEO of Plaud.ai, a bootstrapped AI hardware company reaching $250M ARR. Serial entrepreneur. Plaud makes the NotePin S wearable AI voice recorder...
- Naveen Arulselvan
CTO of Ati Motors, leading autonomous mobile robot development.
- Naveen Rao
Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur who co-founded [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems) in 2014 to build AI-optimized hardware and software. After Intel...
- Navneet Dalal
Co-founder of Matic Robots (formerly Matician). Former Google Nest engineer specializing in computer vision and AI.
- Nayla Hayek
Chair of the Board of the Swatch Group and CEO of Harry Winston, a Swatch Group luxury jewelry brand. Daughter of founder Nicolas G. Hayek. Serves as chair alon...
- Neal Blue
Chairman and CEO of General Atomics. Acquired the company with his brother Linden Blue in 1986. Under his leadership, GA became a world leader in unmanned aircr...
- Neal Sample
Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc.
- Neal Y. Lii
Neal Y. Lii is the Scientific Director of the Surface Avatar program at DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, and domain head of Space Robotic Assistance....
- Ned Curic
Chief Technology Officer, leading Product Development & Technology at Stellantis N.V. Member of the Stellantis Leadership Team.
- Neel Mehta
Co-founder and Director of Asteria Aerospace, Purdue University alumni. Leading India's full-stack drone technology company.
- Neeli Bendapudi
19th President of Pennsylvania State University since 2022. Indian-American academic administrator.
- Neeraj Bhargava
Co-founder of antuit.ai.
- Neha Palmer
CEO and Co-Founder of TeraWatt Infrastructure, an EV charging infrastructure company.
- Neil Fletcher
Managing Director of Invert Robotics, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Neil Johnson
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Neil Manning
Chief Executive Officer of Cellula Robotics since March 2024, previously serving as the company's Corporate Development Officer. Over 30 years of experience in ...
- Neil Mehta
Founder of Greenoaks Capital. Backed Mind Robotics.
- Neil Rimer
Co-founder of Index Ventures. European VC with robotics portfolio.
- Neil Shen
Founding GP of Sequoia Capital China (now HongShan). 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Neil Tardella
CEO of Energid Technologies (2002-2018). BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Hartford, MS in Computer Science from Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Bas...
- Neil Tinmouth
Co-founded ACUA Ocean with his brother Mike in 2021; serves as Founder & CEO. Previously a founding member of the GEBCO Alumni team that won the Shell Ocean Dis...
- Nekeshia Woods
Managing Partner at Parkway Venture Capital. Previously at Morgan Stanley leading portfolio strategy for Private Wealth Management and serving as engagement lea...
- Nelson Chang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC Group Holdings). Leading TCC's transformation into a Total Climate Company with low-carbo...
- Nelson Mills
Co-founder and CEO of Vatn Systems. Leading the company's mission to build affordable, scalable autonomous underwater vehicles for naval defense.
- Nemo Jin
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of XDOF
- Nenye Anagbogu
Early team member at [Avatar Robotics](/companies/avatar-robotics) with the title "Chief Screwdriver." Previously co-founded an AI startup with Colin Webb that ...
- Netanel Goldberg
Co-founder and COO of AIR, overseeing operations and production.
- 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.
- Neville G. Pinto
30th President of the University of Cincinnati, leading the university's strategic direction including the 1819 Innovation Hub and Cincinnati Innovation Distric...
- Neville Haynes
Founder of Big Bend Telephone Company (BBTC) in 1960, a family-owned telecommunications company based in Alpine, Texas.
- 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.
- Ni Zewang
Chairman of Shenzhen Capital Group. 6 robotics/physical AI participations in China.
- Nic Fischer
CTO of Agtonomy, leading agricultural automation technology.
- Nic Radford
Founder and CEO of Persona AI. Building purpose-built industrial humanoid robots for shipyards and heavy industry.
- Niccolo de Masi
Chairman and CEO of IonQ since February 2025, previously served on the board; named Chairman in August 2025. Former CEO of multiple public technology companies.
- Nicholas Cumins
CEO of Bentley Systems since July 2024. Succeeded Greg Bentley who became Executive Chair. First CEO in the company's 40-year history outside the Bentley family...
- Nicholas Fink
President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Brands, effective April 13 2026. Previously CEO of Fortune Brands Innovations.
- Nicholas Kottyan
CEO of DataChambers.
- Nicholas Matten
CEO of Stiebel Eltron, a German company providing heat pumps and renewable energy systems.
- Nicholas Paine
Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; PhD in robotics from the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab.
- Nicholas Pfaff
PhD candidate in EECS at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on sim-and-real cotraining of diffusion policies for planar pushing.
- 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 Desai
Co-founder & CEO of [Queue](/companies/queue), the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. A six-time VC-funded entrepreneur in AI, robotics, and healt...
- Nick Gillian
Co-founder and CTO of Archetype AI, developing AI-powered physical world sensing.
- Nick Hampton
Chief Executive Officer of Tate and Lyle PLC since April 2018.
- Nick Hare
President of Hexagon Mining (2020–2024); previously COO and CFO of the division.
- Nick Hawes
Professor of AI and Robotics at University of Oxford. Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute.
- Nick Hayek, Jr.
CEO of the Swatch Group since 2003, leading the world largest watch company through digital transformation. Son of founder Nicolas G. Hayek. The Swatch Group ow...
- Nick Hegeman
Co-founder and CEO of PaintJet (founded 2020 with Steve Wasilowski), maker of the Bravo robotic exterior-painting system.
- Nick Piazza
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Nick Robertson
Co-founder of ASOS.
- Nick Stoner
VP of Growth at Saronic; previously a senior director of the maritime business at Anduril and a US Navy special-operations officer.
- Niclas Sjöstrand
CTO of ABB Robotics, overseeing robotics technology development.
- Nico Nussbaum
CTO of microagi. Leads the technical platform and forward-deployed engineering for Atlas, the company's robotics deployment and data platform.
- Nicola Telford
Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with her husband Mark), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm.
- Nicolas Bonta
Co-founder of Bitfarms (2017). Former Executive Chairman.
- 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 Dufourcq
CEO of Bpifrance. French government investment arm backing NEURA Robotics.
- Nicolas G. Hayek
Lebanese-Swiss businessman (1928-2010) who co-founded the Swatch Group in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, saving the Swiss watch industry from the qu...
- Nicolas Gambini
CEO of Notilo Plus.
- Nicolas Heitz
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Exotrail, responsible for operations as the company scales globally.
- Nicolas Hieronimus
CEO of L'Oreal Group. Appointed CEO in 2021. Led strategy for the world's largest cosmetics company.
- 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...
- Nicolaus Radford
Founded Nauticus Robotics, a NASDAQ-listed maritime robotics company. Developed autonomous underwater vehicles.
- Nicole Robinson
Co-founder and CEO of LYRO Robotics.
- Niels B. Christiansen
President & CEO of the LEGO Group since October 2017. Oversees all LEGO divisions including LEGO Education.
- Niels Jacobsen
Chair of the Board of Directors at Embla Medical hf and Vice Chairman of William Demant Holding (Demant). Also serves as Chief Investment Officer at William Dem...
- 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...
- Niels Syassen
Executive Board member of SICK AG, Technology and Solutions portfolio, since February 2025.
- Nik Shevchenko
Founder of Based Hardware, a company developing AI-powered hardware devices.
- Nikhil Basu Trivedi
Caffeinated Capital.
- Nikhil Ramaswamy
Co-founder of CynLr. Working on visual object intelligence for robotics for over a decade.
- Nikhita Singh
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer and Board Member of Artificial Inc, a lab automation software company. Former MIT Media Lab researcher in socially intelligent...
- 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.
- Niklas Zennström
Atomico founder. European VC.
- Niko Bonatsos
Bold Capital Partners.
- Nikola Sivacki
Co-Founder and Head of Deep Learning at Greyparrot. Leads the AI/ML engineering behind the waste recognition models.
- Nikolai Ensslen
Co-founder and CEO of Synapticon; building integrated servo drive electronics and motion control systems for humanoid actuators
- Nikolai Setzer
Former CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Continental AG. Stepped down December 31, 2025 by mutual agreement after more than 16 years as a board member ...
- Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Director of the Medical Robotics Laboratory at the University of Houston, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. Pioneers MRI-guided robotic...
- 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...
- Niles Noblitt
Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.
- 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).
- Nimesh Parikh
Founder of Doodle Labs, a company providing wireless communication systems for drones and robotics.
- Ning Gaoning
Chinese businessman who serves as Chairman of Sinochem Holdings and was named Chairman of ChemChina in 2018, succeeding founder Ren Jianxin. He oversees the mer...
- Nir Yanushevsky
Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall-finishing robotics company.
- Niraj Bajaj
Chairman of Bajaj Auto (Bajaj Group).
- Nitesh Sharan
Nitesh Sharan is Chief Financial Officer of Quantinuum. He has over 25 years of corporate financial leadership across technology, consumer, and industrial secto...
- Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School, became Thrive Capital's first executive chairman in 2022.
- Nizan Horesh
Co-founder and CTO of RGo Robotics. Leads the technical vision for the company's AI perception engine.
- Noah Knauf
Board member of Saildrone; General Partner at BOND.
- Noah McGuinness
Co-founder and CTO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on the Starshield government satellite program. Princeton engineering graduate.
- Noah Schochet
Co-founder and CEO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on Starlink and Starship programs. Princeton engineering graduate.
- Noboru Saito
Japanese corporate executive (born September 10, 1966) serving as President and CEO of TDK Corporation since April 2022 and Representative Director since June 2...
- Nobuhiro Matsumoto
President and Director of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd since June 2024.
- Nobuo Yamato
CEO of Vstone Co. Ltd.
- Noel Wallace
President and CEO of Colgate-Palmolive.
- Nora Gohlke
CEO of SICK AG, a German sensor manufacturer specializing in industrial sensors for factory and logistics automation.
- Norbert Basler
Co-founder of Basler AG (1988). Served as CEO until 2000, now chairs the Supervisory Board.
- Norbert Schiedeck
Dr.-Ing. Norbert Schiedeck has been CEO of Vaillant Group since May 2018. Previously served as Managing Director of the Industrial Division.
- Noriharu Amiya
CEO of Building Systems Business Unit at Hitachi. Leads Hitachi Elevator business.
- Norio Nakajima
President of Murata Manufacturing, an electronics components manufacturer.
- Noriya Kaihara
Director, Executive Vice President and Representative Executive Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Compliance and Privacy Officer, Culture Transformation Officer.
- Norma Steller
Co-CTO of German Bionic. Leads the AI-driven operating system development for the Exia exoskeleton platform.
- Ofer Balin
CEO and co-founder of Shifters AI, an Israeli deep-tech company building AI-native autonomous ground robotics for defense. Former IDF Colonel with extensive lea...
- Ofer Ballin
Former Colonel in the IDF with extensive leadership experience in operational adoption of breakthrough technologies. Previously held a business development role...
- Ofir Bustan
Chief Finance and Operations Officer at RoboTiCan.
- 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.
- Oktay Caglar
Turkish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Udemy. Created a live virtual classroom while living in Turkey before co-founding Udemy with Eren Bali and Gaga...
- Ola Kallenius
Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
- Ola Rollén
CEO of Hexagon AB 2000–2022, now Chairman. Led 200+ acquisitions over 21 years.
- Oleg Kivokurtsev
Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer of Promobot, a manufacturer of autonomous service robots. Founded Promobot in 2015 in Perm, Russia with partne...
- 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.
- Olga Abramov
Managing Director of CITEC at Bielefeld University.
- Oli Mulcahy MBE
Chief Technology Officer at ACUA Ocean, leading the design, engineering, and technology strategy for the Pioneer-class hydrogen-powered H-USV platform. Promoted...
- 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...
- Oliver Ebel
CEO of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, a German naval shipbuilder specializing in submarines and surface vessels.
- Oliver Holle
Founder of Speedinvest. European early-stage.
- Oliver Jakobi
CEO of Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA. Previously served as interim CEO before being appointed permanently. Leads the company's strategy following its October 2025 IPO ...
- Oliver Stark
Founder and CEO of [Halcyon Robotics](/companies/halcyon-robotics), a San Francisco-based startup building dexterous robot hands for the humanoid robotics indus...
- Olivia Norton
Co-founder, CTO and CPO of Sanctuary AI; previously led the Vancouver AGI group at Kindred AI.
- Olivier Andriès
CEO and Director of Safran.
- Olivier Blum
CEO of Schneider Electric since November 2024.
- Olivier Le Peuch
Chief Executive Officer of SLB (formerly Schlumberger). Appointed CEO effective August 1.
- Olivier Michel
Founder and CEO of Cyberbotics Ltd.
- Olle Gelin
Co-founder and forestry-technology expert at AirForestry, the Swedish electric-forestry-drone startup.
- Olof Persson
CEO of Iveco Group.
- Olumide Soroye
President, CEO and Director of Fortive since June 2025.
- Omer Bar-Yohay
Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded Eviation Aircraft in 2015 with Omri Regev and Aviv Tzidon, serving as CEO and leading early development of the Alice all-ele...
- Omer Davidi
Co-founder and CEO of [BeeHero](/companies/beehero), the world's leading provider of AI-powered precision pollination. Co-founded BeeHero with Itai Kanot (a sec...
- Omer Einav
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Motorika. Described the HealthSouth partnership as a defining moment in applying robotic technology to benefit patients w...
- Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and President of Applied Ventures, LLC at Applied Materials, Inc. Joined Applied in 2006 after serving as a NYS...
- Omri Regev
Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded Eviation Aircraft in 2015 with Omer Bar-Yohay and Aviv Tzidon. The three founders built Eviation into a Washington State-bas...
- Onn Haran
Co-founder and CTO of Autotalks, pioneering V2X chipset technology for vehicle-to-everything communication.
- Oral Yigitkus
Co-founder of Delivers.ai. Founded the company in 2020 alongside Ali Kutay Yarali.
- Osamu Inoue
President of Sumitomo Electric Industries, a Japanese wire and cable manufacturer with operations in automotive, electronics, and infrastructure.
- Osamu Murai
President and CEO of Nippon Chemi-Con.
- Oscar Garcia Maceiras
CEO of Inditex.
- Oscar Hedstrom
Co-founder of [Indian Motorcycle](/companies/indian-motorcycle) (originally the Hendee Manufacturing Company) in 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts. A former bi...
- Ossur Kristinsson
Founder of Ossur (1971), the Icelandic prosthetics and orthotics company; an amputee and prosthetist who developed the Iceross silicone prosthetic-socket liner....
- Otto Maly
Founder of Bluebird Network. Chairman.
- Otto Toto Sugiri
Otto Toto Sugiri founded DCI Indonesia in 2011, building it into Indonesia's leading data center operator, publicly listed on the IDX.
- Oussama Khatib
Stanford professor and director of the Stanford Robotics Lab; pioneer of the operational space framework and Ocean One humanoid
- Pablo Di Si
Chief Performance Officer of Stellantis N.V. Direct report to the CEO. Member of the Stellantis Leadership Team.
- 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).
- Pamela Fletcher
CEO of [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), leading commercialization of the company's Licerion® lithium-metal battery technology, since August 2024. Previously...
- Pamela Gregorski
President and CEO of Anadonna LLC, a data center development company.
- Pamela Whitten
19th President of Indiana University.
- Pan Yang
Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus and co-founder. Led precision engineering efforts including the SwitchBot Bot with 0.1mm actuation accuracy.
- Pan Yang
Pan Yang is the co-founder of SwitchBot (Woan Technology). A Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus, he led the engineering of the SwitchBot Bot finger robot wi...
- Pang Jiangbo
Founder and CEO of Kepler Robot (Kaibo); former Huawei executive building affordable humanoid robots for industrial use
- Panos Antsaklis
H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame. Foundational researcher in robotics and control systems.
- Panu Routila
Panu Routila serves as Chairperson of Patria Plc.
- Paolo Compagna
CEO of Schindler Group since April 2025. Succeeded Silvio Napoli. Member of the Group Executive Committee since 2015.
- 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...
- Paolo Pirjanian
CEO of Embodied, a robotics company developing socially intelligent companion robots for emotional wellbeing.
- Pär-Jörgen Pärson
General Partner at Northzone. European VC.
- Paril Jain
Co-founder and CTO of The Bot Company, a San Francisco robotics startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots. Previously served as tech lead and AI manage...
- Park Kwang-hoon
Park Kwang-hoon is the CEO and founder of P&S Mechanics (rebranded P&S Robotics in June 2025), a Korean medical rehabilitation robotics company he established i...
- Park Sung-hyun
CEO of Sapeon.
- Parker Burke
Appointed Group President of Fluke Corporation and Fluke Reliability in July 2025, leading the connected reliability vision.
- Pascal Daloz
CEO and Chairman of Dassault Systemes.
- Pascal Gohl
Director of Robotics at Hexagon Robotics, overseeing robotics engineering for the AEON humanoid platform.
- Pascal Lee
Planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, Chief Scientist at Ceres Robotics, and co-founder and Chairman of the Mars Institute. Director of the NASA Haughton-M...
- Pascal Rialland
Chairman and CEO of BALYO. Led the company through revenue growth to EUR 31.4M in 2025, with major customers including Amazon and Danone.
- Pasu Boonvisut
Pasu Boonvisut is Co-founder at HG Robotics; co-founder of HG Robotics.
- Pat Grady
Co-Managing Partner / Co-Steward of Sequoia Capital since November 2025. Partner at Sequoia since 2007. Started his career in inside sales before joining Sequoi...
- 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...
- Pat Pitney
President of the University of Alaska System. Announced retirement effective May 2026. Previously served as Vice Chancellor and Budget Director.
- Pat Roche
President and CEO of Moog Inc. since February 2023.
- 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...
- Patrice Caine
Chairman and CEO of Thales Group, a French multinational aerospace and defense company. The Ground Transportation Systems division was sold to Hitachi Rail in 2...
- Patrice Louvet
French-born business executive, dual French and American national. President and CEO of Ralph Lauren Corporation since July 2017. Previously at Procter & Gamble...
- 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 Collins
Co-Founder of Norbert Health, a physical AI company developing autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities. Co-founded Norbert Health with A...
- Patrick Dehlinger
CEO of Wyca Robotics, a French robotics company developing autonomous mobile robots for logistics and inspection.
- Patrick DePriest
Chief Financial Officer of Saronic; previously CFO of Merlin Labs.
- Patrick Kelleher
Chief Executive Officer of GXO Logistics, effective August 19, 2025; previously CEO, North America at DHL Supply Chain.
- Patrick Koller
CEO of Faurecia (now FORVIA), a French global automotive supplier.
- Patrick Moebel
CEO of CEVA Logistics, appointed to lead the global supply chain and freight management company.
- Patrick O'Neil
Chief Technology Officer of [BlackSky](/companies/blacksky) (NYSE: BKSY), responsible for the design and execution of BlackSky's end-to-end space, ground system...
- Patrick Pfreundschuh
ETH Zürich PhD who built the BIEVR-LIO lidar-inertial odometry system and was part of the winning team at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Founding engineer at...
- Patrick Pouyanne
Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies (parent of Saft).
- Patrick Qian
Founder and CEO of Quectel Wireless Solutions, one of the first engineers in China to dedicate his career to wireless module development. Previously Vice Genera...
- Patrick Sobalvarro
Co-founder and CEO of Veo Robotics, a company developing safe human-robot collaboration systems for industrial manufacturing. Previously served as the first Ent...
- 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 Wensing
Assistant Professor at Notre Dame College of Engineering. Research in applied optimization and control for dynamic, intelligent, and physically interactive robo...
- Patrick Zimmermann
Co-founder and CFO of fruitcore robotics GmbH, responsible for finance and business development.
- Patryk Wiatr
Co-founder and CIO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Oversees information systems and software infrastructure for the DROID satellite program. Previou...
- Paul Allen
Co-founder of Microsoft.
- Paul B. MacCready Jr.
Founder of AeroVironment (founded 1971). Designer of human-powered aircraft including the Gossamer Condor.
- 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 DeLong
President of Commercialization at MOIA America, leading US market expansion and Uber partnership deployment in Los Angeles.
- Paul Delorme
Founder of Air Liquide (founded 1902). Gathered 24 subscribers to create the company for the study and exploitation of Georges Claude processes.
- Paul Drews
Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures. 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Skild AI.
- Paul Dubrule
Co-founder of Accor Group.
- Paul Dutton
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary at onsemi.
- 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 Gosker
CEO and Co-Founder of Compass Mining, a Bitcoin mining hosting and hardware marketplace company.
- Paul Groenland
Founder of Focal Meditech.
- Paul Gudonis
CEO of Myomo, leading the medical device company developing powered orthosis for upper-limb paralysis. Expanded clinical operations to China.
- Paul K Kearns
Director of Argonne National Laboratory.
- Paul Krueger
Professor, ME. Co-supervisor LAMRA. Experimental fluid dynamics, aquatic locomotion, additive manufacturing, soft robotics.
- Paul Lascombes
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Exotrail, leading scientific and technical research for the company's space mobility solutions.
- 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 Phillips
Co-Founder and CEO of Reach Robotics (formerly Blueprint Lab), founded in 2016 in Sydney, Australia. University of Sydney alumnus.
- Paul Roberts
CEO of Lupin Dental and co-founder of CMR Surgical, the Cambridge-based surgical robotics company that developed the Versius modular surgical robot. Roberts bri...
- Paul Santos
Managing Partner and Co-founder of Wavemaker Partners. Previously co-founded six companies and sold three. Started his career at Procter & Gamble. Appointed to ...
- Paul Schulman
Executive linked to registry companies.
- 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.
- Paulina Prachnio
Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025.
- Pauline Desryles
Andera Partners. French VC.
- Pauline Sauvage
Team member at Norbert Health, a physical AI company developing autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities.
- 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...
- Paulo Ruiz
Chief Executive Officer of Eaton Corporation, a global intelligent power management company, since June 1, 2025. Appointed President and COO on September 2, 202...
- Pavel Hajman
CEO of Husqvarna Group from May 2023 to end of 2025, after serving as Acting CEO from December 2022. Joined Husqvarna Group in 2014 as President of the Husqvarn...
- Pawel Michalak
CTO of Advanced Navigation, leading AI and robotics navigation technology.
- Pekka Lundmark
CEO of ICEYE, a Finnish aerospace company building synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) microsatellites for Earth observation.
- Peng Xiao
Peng Xiao serves as Group CEO of G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI technology holding company that received a US$1.5B investment from Microsoft in 2024.
- Per Franzén
CEO and Managing Partner of EQT, a role he assumed in May 2025. Joined EQT in 2007 and has played a central role in the firm's development and investment activi...
- Per Juul Nielsen
CEO of UVD Robots, leading the company's global expansion of UV-C disinfection robots across healthcare, pharmaceutical, and public sectors.
- 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.
- Per-Martin Holmgren
Co-founder of Brokk. Together with his brother Lars Holmgren, he developed the world's first remote-controlled demolition robot in 1976 at Rönnskärsverken, a me...
- Perrin Schiebel
Assistant Professor in mechanical engineering at Montana State University. Former Harvard Microrobotics postdoc. Research in animal biomechanics and robotic exp...
- Perry Boyle
Co-founder and CEO of Tencore, a Ukrainian defense robotics company manufacturing military robots for front-line deployment. Former Point72 hedge fund executive...
- Pete Bitar
Pete Bitar is a pilot with 40+ years of experience and holder of 18 patents in fields ranging from electrical and laser weapon systems to aviation and renewable...
- Pete Shadbolt
Dr. Pete Shadbolt is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of PsiQuantum, a photonic quantum computing company building the world's first commercially useful ...
- Peter Anderson-Sprecher
Co-founder of Fox Robotics, maker of the FoxBot autonomous forklift / trailer loader-unloader (acquired by Symbotic).
- Peter Arduini
President and CEO of GE HealthCare since January 2022.
- Peter Cannito
CEO of Redwire Corporation, a space infrastructure company developing robotics for orbital and lunar applications.
- Peter Carlsson
Founder and CEO of Northvolt, a European battery manufacturer.
- Peter Chapman
Former CEO and President of [IonQ](/companies/ionq) from May 2019 to August 2025, now serving as Executive Chair. Transformed IonQ from a research-stage company...
- Peter Chen
Co-founder and CEO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024 as part of Amazon's license-and-hire deal.
- Peter Coratola Jr.
Founder and CEO of EASE Logistics, a logistics and supply chain company.
- Peter Dong-Kyun Kim
President and CEO of Daedong-USA, Inc., KIOTI Tractor Division. Oversees Kioti brand operations across North America.
- Péter Fankhauser
Co-founder and CEO of [ANYbotics](/companies/anybotics-actuator), spun off from the ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab in 2016. Ph.D. in Robotics from ETH Zurich. L...
- Peter Francis
Co-founder and CEO of Revolve Surgical. Background in mechatronics engineering and surgical robotics.
- Peter G Jorgensen
Co-founder and CCO of Boozt.
- Peter Hébert
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital. B AUM venture firm investing in AI, robotics, automation, defense, and deep tech.
- Peter Hedley
Co-founder and CTO of Recycleye, spun out of Imperial College London. Develops the AI computer vision and robotics systems behind Recycleye Vision and Recycleye...
- Peter Ho
Co-founder and CEO of HOPE Technik. Founded the Singapore engineering firm in 2006 with three NUS schoolmates.
- Peter Hostettler
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hocoma. An economist who helped establish the company in 1996.
- Peter Howard
Co-founder and Chairman of Realtime Robotics (founded 2016). Previously CEO; succeeded by Kevin Carlin in Aug 2026. Serial entrepreneur — founded 5 companies, t...
- Peter J. Mohler
30th President of The University of Alabama, appointed June 2025.
- Peter Koerte
CTO and Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens AG. Member of the Managing Board.
- Peter Laier
CEO of FORVIA HELLA since February 2026.
- Peter Laier
CEO of FORVIA HELLA from February 2026.
- Peter Levine
Board director of Shield AI; General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); previously CEO of XenSource.
- Peter Liu
President & CEO of Grepow Battery (Shenzhen Grepow Battery Co., Ltd., founded 1998), a leading custom lithium polymer battery manufacturer headquartered in Shen...
- Peter Meusel
CTO of Agile Robots, leading robotics control and AI development.
- Peter Meusel AgXeed
CTO of AgXeed, developing autonomous agricultural robots.
- Peter Mohnen
Former CEO of KUKA AG. Led the company through the challenging 2024 fiscal year and the launch of iiQKA.OS2.
- Peter Nilsson
President and CEO of Trelleborg Group.
- Peter Pauli
Chairman and CEO of [Reha Technology](/companies/reha-technology), a Swiss medical robotics company specializing in robotic-assisted neuro-rehabilitation for up...
- Peter Salditt
President of Komatsu's Mining Business Division and CEO of Komatsu Mining Corporation. Led the milestone commissioning of the 1,000th autonomous ultra-class hau...
- Peter Soetens
Co-founded Intermodalics in 2010, developing robotics and perception software.
- Peter Steinbeck
Peter Steinbeck is CEO at Windmöller & Hölscher.
- Peter Stone
Computer science professor leading the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG), focused on machine learning and dynamic environments, long-term autonomy, and huma...
- Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir. Founders Fund led Hadrian Series C, backs Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, and many robotics/defense companies.
- Peter van der Made
Founder of [BrainChip](/companies/brainchip) (ASX: BRN), the world's first company to commercialize a neuromorphic AI processor. A pioneer with 45+ years in com...
- 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 Walker
CEO of thyssenkrupp Elevator.
- Peter Walker
CEO of thyssenkrupp Elevator Technology.
- Peter Wall
Founder and former CEO of Argo Blockchain.
- Peter Werner
PhD candidate in EECS at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on algorithms for growing collision-free convex polytopes in robot configuration space (IR...
- Peter Weyand
Glenn Simmons Professor of Applied Physiology and Biomechanics. Director, Locomotor Performance Lab. Human sprint/running biomechanics.
- Peter Worrall
Chief Financial Officer of Rex Bionics. Listed as CFO in 2016 company trading updates.
- Peter Wurman
Computer scientist; co-founder and CTO of Kiva Systems; later director of research at Sony AI, leading the Gran Turismo Sophy project.
- Peter Yeung
CEO of Wente Family Estates, appointed July 2026. Oversees all aspects of the Californian wine producer based in Livermore Valley.
- Peter Zornio
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- 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.
- Phebe N. Novakovic
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics since January 1, 2013. Joined General Dynamics in 2001.
- Phil Andreopoulos
CEO of Yotel.
- Phil Frank
Co-founder and CEO of Rendezvous Robotics, a Golden, Colorado space infrastructure startup commercializing TESSERAE self-assembling orbital structures. A vetera...
- Phil Gallagher
CEO of Avnet since November 2020.
- Philip B. Daniele III
President and CEO of AutoZone.
- Philip Colligan
CEO of Raspberry Pi, the company behind the popular single-board computer widely used in robotics education and DIY projects.
- Philip Johnston
British entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of [Starcloud](/companies/starcloud), developing orbital data centers for AI compute. Previously co-founded Opontia (acq...
- Philip Nelles
Member of the Executive Board of Continental AG and head of the ContiTech group sector since June 2021. Born 1974.
- Philip Norman
Co-founder and CTO of Ross Robotics (founded 2015); conceived the Robosynthesis modular, reconfigurable ground-robot platform.
- Philipp Bittner
COO at Rhenus Logistics AG in Switzerland. Led the Swiss AMR warehouse deployment with Geek+ in Basel.
- Philipp Herzig
Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer of SAP SE since January 2025. Oversees SAP's technology and AI strategy, including Business AI and agentic AI. Joi...
- Philipp Wu
Co-founder and CEO of XDOF, former UC Berkeley PhD student who co-authored GELLO, a low-cost teleoperation system for robotic arms
- Philippe Delorme
CEO of KONE Corporation.
- Philippe Goldman
Former CEO of PAZZI who led the company through its 2019-2022 restaurant operations in Paris. Oversaw the company's judicial liquidation in November 2022, citin...
- Philippe Laffont
Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Coatue Management, a global technology-focused investment firm managing tens of billions in assets. MIT computer science...
- Philippe Veran
Board member at Lupin Dental. French entrepreneur and founder & CEO of Biotech Dental, one of France's leading manufacturers of dental implants, orthodontic ali...
- 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.
- Pierre Paré
President, CEO, and sole owner of Machinex Group, a Quebec-based recycling equipment manufacturer. Joined Machinex in 1983 as a sales engineer, became co-shareh...
- Pierre Rouanet
Co-founder and CTO of Pollen Robotics. Former INRIA researcher specializing in robotics and AI.
- Pierre Sermanet
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), developing latent world models for humanoid robots. Formerly Research Scientist at Googl...
- Pierroberto Folgiero
CEO of Fincantieri, an Italian shipbuilding company.
- 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...
- Pieter van Oord
CEO of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
- 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...
- Pim de Witte
CEO of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.
- Ping Cheng
Chairman and CEO of Delta Electronics since 2024 (Chairman) and 2012 (CEO). Joined Delta in 1988; led transformation from component manufacturer to solutions pr...
- Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami, founding director of the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab....
- Piotr Lusakowski
Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025.
- Piotr Niedzwiedz
Founder and CEO of Neptune.ai, an MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025. Previously co-founder and CTO of deepsense.ai (2014-20...
- Piyush Kalra
Product Design Head at Pace Robotics. Masters in Innovation Design, strong mechanical engineering background.
- Pol Duthoit
Co-founder of SolarCleano (founded 2017), maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning systems.
- Pol Forn-Díaz
Co-founded Qilimanjaro in 2019; physicist and quantum hardware expert.
- Pony Ma
Founder and CEO of Tencent. Tencent has 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Unitree Robotics, Even Realities.
- Poul Due Jensen
CEO of Grundfos.
- Poul Weihrauch
CEO of Mars, Incorporated.
- Prabu Raja, Ph.D.
President of the Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) at Applied Materials, Inc. Leads Applied Materials' semiconductor process equipment businesses and the globa...
- Pragati Tripathi
Chief of Business and Strategy at Alphadroid, an AMR and front-office robotics company founded in 2020 that builds AI-powered service bots for hospitality, heal...
- Prakash Bedapudi
CEO of Rheem Manufacturing, a US manufacturer of water heaters and HVAC equipment.
- Prakash Nemade
Senior executive at Mahindra Tractors, the world’s largest tractor manufacturer by volume.
- Pramod Ghadge
Co-founder and CEO of Unbox Robotics in Pune, India. Started the company at age 29, building warehouse robotics sortation systems.
- Pranav Gokhale
CTO & Co-founder of [Infleqtion](/companies/infleqtion). Previously CEO and Co-founder of Super.tech (Superstaq), a quantum software company acquired by ColdQua...
- Pranav Manpuria
Indian entrepreneur based in Bangalore, founder and CEO of Flux Auto (founded 2017), which develops autonomous driving technology for commercial trucks. Holds a...
- Pranjal Mehta
Co-founder and CEO of [The ePlane Company](/companies/eplane-company), the Chennai-based eVTOL startup he co-founded in 2019 with Prof. Satya Chakravarthy as an...
- Prateek Jain
Co-founder and COO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian robotics and warehouse-automation company.
- Pratik Patel
Co-founder and COO of Flo Mobility, an engineer-founder with a Mechanical Engineering background based in Bengaluru, India. Co-founded Flo Mobility in December ...
- Premal Ashar
COO of FarmX, a precision agriculture and autonomous farming technology company. Co-founder of Enlighted (acquired by Siemens in 2018), where he helped build a ...
- 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...
- Priyanka Khanna
Chief of People and Culture at Alphadroid, an AMR and front-office robotics company founded in 2020 that builds AI-powered service bots for hospitality, healthc...
- Prof. David Parker
Co-Founder of Stateful Robotics and Professor at the University of Oxford. His decade-long research at Oxford into autonomy, probabilistic verification and deci...
- Prof. Kyoungchul Kong
Founder & CEO of Angel Robotics. Professor in South Korea. Founded the exoskeleton company in 2014/2017. Won bronze medal at the first Cybathlon.
- Prof. Mikko Möttönen
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers) and Academy Professor of Quantum Technology at Aalto University and ...
- Prof. Satya Chakravarthy
Professor of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras and founder/CTO of [The ePlane Company](/companies/eplane-company), India's first DGCA-certified eVTOL develope...
- Pulkit Agrawal
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (CSAIL) and co-founder of Eka Robotics. PhD from UC Berkeley, undergraduate from IIT K...
- Pulkit Gaur
Founder and CTO of Gridbots Technologies. TED Fellow. Leading India-based robotics and machine vision company.
- Puneet Chhabra
Co-founder and former CTO of ACUA Ocean, now serving as Technology Advisor to the company. PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of ...
- Puneet Puri
Serial robotics founder. CEO and co-founder of Gritt. CMU Robotics Institute and Stanford GSB alum. Previously developed the world's first inspection drones for...
- Puru Rastogi
Co-founder and CEO of Mowito. Previously built autonomous helicopters and studied robotics at Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Near Earth Autonomy.
- Qasar Younis
Founder of Applied Intuition, a Silicon Valley company providing simulation software for autonomous vehicle development.
- 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...
- Qin Daqing
Director of Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics Lab.
- Qin Lin
Research focuses on optimization, ML, control theory, and formal verification for safety-critical robotic systems including autonomous racing cars, quadrotors, ...
- Qingbin Jiang
CEO of Sany Heavy Equipment International.
- Qiu Xiandong
Chairman of the Board and Party Secretary of China FAW Group Co., Ltd. (中国第一汽车集团). Appointed chairman in 2023, he previously served as Vice President and held s...
- Qiu Xiaoxin
CEO of Axera.
- Qu Jianguo
Founder and Chairman of Origincell Technology Group Co., Ltd. (also known as Shanghai Yuanneng Cell / OriginCell), a Chinese biotechnology company focused on st...
- Quan Nguyen
Chairman of VinMotion.
- 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...
- Quinn Bolander
Managing director at Qualcomm Ventures. 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Quonta D. (Que) Vance
Executive Vice President, Pro and Home Services at Lowe's Companies, Inc. Appointed June 2023; previously SVP of Transportation and Final Mile. Over 25 years of...
- R. Adam Norwitt
Chairman and CEO of Amphenol Corporation.
- R.E.B. Baylor
Co-founder of Baylor University.
- Rachel Huckle
Rachel Huckle is CEO at Staples.
- Rachel Ng
Partner, People & Platform at Wavemaker Partners. Joined in July 2019, previously Chief of Staff and Principal. Oversees Platform functions including People, Co...
- Rachel Vaknin
Chief Financial Officer at Microbot Medical, overseeing the company's financial operations during its transition to commercial stage.
- Rachel Vitali
Rachel Vitali is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. Her research areas include biomechanics, robotics, data fusion, and...
- Rafael Fierro
Professor at University of New Mexico ECE, main contact for Robotics Research. Research in cyber-physical systems, robotic networks, multi-agent coordination, U...
- Rafael Hostettler
Founder and CEO of Devanthro, building teleoperated humanoid robots (Robodies) for elderly care. Holds a Master in Computational Science and Engineering from ET...
- Rafael López
CEO of Herman Miller (now MillerKnoll), a major office furniture manufacturer known for ergonomic design.
- Rafael López
Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Robotnik Automation S.L.L. Founded the company with Roberto Guzmán in 2002. Leads research and development in mobile service...
- Rafael Santaro
CEO of Wabtec (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies), a provider of equipment and systems for the rail and transit industry.
- Rafael Sotomayor
President and CEO of NXP Semiconductors since October 2025. Succeeded Kurt Sievers.
- Rafal Janik
Chief Operating Officer of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, responsible for the company's operational execution and technology roadmap.
- 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...
- Raghunandan Saran
Founder of Ashok Leyland.
- Rahul Nambiar
CEO & Co-founder of Botsync. Singapore-based robotics startup founded 2017, NTU graduates. Builds heavy-duty autonomous mobile robots for supply chains.
- Rainer Hacker
Founder of Hacker Motor GmbH (1999), a German manufacturer of high-performance brushless electric motors for RC model aviation and UAV applications.
- Rainer Planinc
CEO of Cogvis GmbH. Leads the Vienna-based AI care monitoring company providing fall prevention solutions to European care facilities.
- Raj Subramaniam
President and CEO of FedEx Corporation since June 2022, succeeding founder Fred Smith as only the second CEO in FedEx history. Born in Thiruvananthapuram, India...
- 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 (...
- Rajat Kulshrestha
Co-founder and CEO of Space Machines Company, an Australian startup providing in-space transportation and orbital logistics services. Trained as an aerospace en...
- Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra
Dr. Rajeeb "Raj" Hazra is President and CEO of Quantinuum, with over three decades of experience in supercomputing, quantum, and technical roles. Prior to joini...
- Rajeev Misra
CEO of SoftBank Vision Fund. SBVF2 has 14 robotics/physical AI participations including Pudu, KEENON, HAI Robotics.
- Rajesh Jadhav
CEO of TidalX AI, an Alphabet spin-off company leveraging machine learning and machine perception to protect the ocean and transform sustainable aquaculture. Fo...
- Rajiv Bajaj
MD and CEO of Bajaj Auto.
- Rajiv Dubey
Research in haptic interfaces, wheelchair-mounted robotic arms, and rehabilitation robotics for persons with disabilities; long-running NSF and VA funding for a...
- Rajiv Prasad
President and CEO of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling.
- Raju Vegesna
Raju Vegesna serves as Chairman and Managing Director of Sify Technologies, one of India's largest integrated ICT and data center operators (NASDAQ:SIFY).
- Ralf Göttel
CEO of BENTELER Group since April 2017. Responsible for strategy and M&A.
- Ralph J Roberts
Founder of Comcast Corporation.
- Ralph Lauren
American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman. Born Ralph Lifshitz on October 14, 1939 in the Bronx, New York. Founder, executive chair...
- Ralph Saul
Co-founder of Cigna (1982 merger).
- Ralph Zucker
CEO and Founder of Bell Works (Somerset Development).
- Ram Krishnan
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Rami Rahim
CEO of Juniper Networks. Employee #32 who rose to CEO.
- 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.
- Randy Altschuler
Co-founder and CEO of Xometry.
- Randy Beard
Professor, ECE. Co-founder MAGICC Lab (1999). Autonomous UAV navigation, guidance, control. Kestrel autopilot co-creator.
- Randy Brouckman
CEO and Co-Founder of EdgeConneX, a global edge data center provider.
- Randy George
Chief of Staff of the US Army.
- Rangu Salgame
Rangu Salgame founded Princeton Digital Group in 2017, building a Pan-Asian data center platform across 7 countries backed by Warburg Pincus.
- Rani Plaut
Co-founder and CEO of AIR, leading the company since its founding in 2018.
- Ranjeev Puri
Chief Financial Officer of Alphadroid, a Noida-based robotics and AI startup building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for hospitality, healthcare, retail, and l...
- Rapolas Markevičius
Co-founder and CEO of PDKINEMATICS. Former private equity professional who joined the Lithuanian army reserves in 2022 in response to Russia's invasion of Ukrai...
- 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.
- Raul Martynek
CEO of DataBank.
- Ravi Kota
CMD of Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), assuming role May 1, 2026. Succeeds Dr. D.K. Sunil.
- Ravi L. Hadimani
Associate Professor at VCU, Director of the Biomagnetics Laboratory. Part of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems research team.
- Ravi Mhatre
Co-founder and General Partner at Lightspeed. 12 robotics/physical AI participations including Neko Health, Physical Intelligence.
- Ray Conley
CEO of Creekstone Energy.
- Ray Harroff
Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.
- Ray Henger
Chief Executive Officer of Copia Power, a leading power and AI infrastructure platform. Formerly with Carlyle Group portfolio.
- Ray Hirschbach
Founded Hirschbach in 1935 in Sioux City, Iowa with a single truck hauling produce.
- Ray Jayawardhana
10th President of Caltech since July 2026.
- Ray Scott
President and Chief Executive Officer of Lear Corporation. Responsible for strategic direction and operational leadership.
- Ray Sidler
CEO and Co-founder of DataVerge, a carrier-neutral data center in Brooklyn.
- Raymond Kok
Raymond Kok is CEO of Mendix, appointed February 2024. Previously spent 21 years at Siemens in various leadership roles.
- Raymond Miller
Co-founder of Pratt Miller, an engineering company specializing in motorsports, defense, and automotive systems.
- Raymond Scott
CEO of Lear Corporation.
- Raymond Tonsing
Board member of Saronic; founder and Managing Partner of Caffeinated Capital, which led Saronic's Series A.
- Rebeca Obregon
President of Farnell, an Avnet company, since July 2024.
- Rebecca Hu
Co-founder and CEO of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously at Bain & Company.
- Rebecca Tinucci
American logistics and energy executive appointed CEO of [Uber Freight](/companies/uber-freight) on August 12, 2025, succeeding founder Lior Ron. She previously...
- Redwan Alqasemi
Research in robotics, assistive technologies, kinematics, and virtual reality; first USF researcher awarded NSF I-Corps Teams grant for commercializing assistiv...
- Reggie Brown
Co-founder of Snapchat credited with the original concept. Settled with Snap for $157.5M in 2014 after a lawsuit over his role in the company.
- Reginald DesRoches
8th President of Rice University. Also serves as a professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering.
- Reinhard Ernst
Former CEO and majority shareholder of Harmonic Drive. Started in 1971 as the first employee of Harmonic Drive System GmbH. Purchased the American/Japanese join...
- Reinhold Gross
CEO of KUKA's Robotics division. Leads the robotics product strategy including the iiQKA.OS2 operating system rollout.
- Rémi Cadène
Co-founder and CEO at UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), building general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots on top of LeRobot. Formerly robotics research sc...
- 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.
- Ren Jianxin
Chinese businessman who founded ChemChina (originally Bluestar Company) in 1984 with a 10,000-yuan loan, building it into a Fortune Global 500 state-owned chemi...
- Rene Haas
CEO of Arm Holdings. 35+ years in semiconductors. Named to 2025 TIME100 AI list. Leading Arm's expansion from IP licensing into compute subsystems and productio...
- 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...
- Renu Khator
Chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship UH campus since January 2008. First woman chancellor of UH System and first Indian ...
- Reuben C Baker
Founder of Baker Hughes.
- Revathi Advaithi
CEO of Flex Ltd (formerly Flextronics). Advocate for women in STEM and the workplace. Named to the 2026 Gold100.
- Reynaldo Santana
President of Contour Crafting Corporation, leader in automated construction and large-scale 3D printing for affordable housing.
- Rhett Bennett
Founder and CEO of Black Mountain Energy, established in 2007. Also CEO of Black Mountain Energy Storage.
- Ric Fulop
Co-founder and CEO of Desktop Metal, committed to accelerating manufacturing transformation with metal 3D printing. Led company through SPAC IPO, Nano Dimension...
- Ricardo Domínguez García-Baquero
Chairman and President of Navantia, Spain's state-owned shipbuilding enterprise. Led the company through the acquisition of Harland & Wolff in January 2025, exp...
- Ricardo Maiz
President of Vitro Architectural Glass since January 2019.
- Ricardo Mendes
CEO of TEKEVER.
- Riccardo Biasini
Former CEO of Comma AI (2018-2019). Previously VP of Quality at Comma, and before that a Tesla engineer who led development of Traffic Aware Cruise Control. Mas...
- Rich Hossfeld
Co-CEO of SB Energy (SoftBank Group), leading the company's AI data center campus development and energy infrastructure strategy. Previously held senior leaders...
- 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 Lindner
Founder, President and CEO of Envirosight. Previously worked at an industrial test and measurement company before founding Envirosight in 2002 to bring innovati...
- Rich Lyons
Chancellor of UC Berkeley.
- Rich Walker
Director of Shadow Robot Company, leading the team developing dexterous robotic hands and teleoperation systems for 14 years.
- Rich Wurden
Co-founder and CTO of Aigen, developing autonomous agricultural robots.
- Richard A. Bierschbach
Richard A. Bierschbach was elected the 14th president of Wayne State University on Feb 24, 2026. A law scholar and award-winning educator, he previously served ...
- Richard Beaumont
Co-founder of Agovor. Started the company to solve labor challenges at his own nursery, Ardmore Nurseries in New Zealand. Spent years self-funding development b...
- Richard D. Fairbank
Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Capital One Financial Corporation. Founded Capital One and built it into a major financial services company.
- Richard Davis
CEO and President of Mayo Clinic.
- Richard Greenhill
Founder of Shadow Robot Company, pioneering dexterous robotic hand technology in London since 1987.
- Richard Hudson
Chief Revenue Officer of Zebra Technologies since November 2023. Manages global sales and services, building customer and partner relationships and expanding Ze...
- Richard J. Koubek
President of Michigan Technological University; leads the university's strategic initiatives in STEM education and research including robotics and AI programs.
- Richard Jenkins
Founder and CEO of Saildrone; inventor of the wing-sail and holder of the world land-speed sailing record.
- Richard Lim
Managing Director at GSR Ventures. 6 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Richard Little
Co-founder and former CEO of Rex Bionics. Invented the REX exoskeleton with Robert Irving. Founded the company in 2003 and served as CEO for ten years before st...
- Richard M Schulze
Founder of Best Buy.
- Richard M Schulze
Founder of Best Buy.
- Richard Mou
Joined SwitchBot in 2016 after his own startup Welle (sonar gesture control). Led market research and product strategy for SwitchBot Curtain and Hub Mini launch...
- Richard Palfinger
Founder of PALFINGER in 1932. Established the company in Bergheim, Salzburg, Austria as a crane and lifting solutions manufacturer.
- Richard Puccio
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Richard S. Stapp
Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General and former Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of [Northrop Grumman](/companies/northrop-grumman). A graduate of ...
- Richard S. Warzala
Chairman, President & CEO of Allied Motion Technologies. Precision motion control products — brushless motors, servo drives for robotics. Founded 1939.
- Richard Stocking
President & CEO of Hirschbach; former Swift Transportation President/CEO (27 years at Swift).
- Richard Wallace
CEO of KLA Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company specializing in process control and yield management.
- Richard Wang
Founder and CEO of Aiper (founded 2016, Shenzhen/Atlanta), maker of cordless robotic pool cleaners.
- Richard Zhang
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Primech AI, architect of the Hytron autonomous toilet cleaning robot platform powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin Super.
- Rick Hendrick
Founder and owner of Hendrick Motorsports (NASCAR most successful organization with 15 Cup Series championships and 320+ race wins) and Hendrick Automotive Grou...
- Rick Smith
Founder and CEO of [Axon Enterprise](/companies/axon) (NASDAQ: AXON), the public safety technology company behind TASER energy weapons, body-worn cameras, and E...
- Rick Wilmer
CEO of Chowbotics from October 2019 until the company's shutdown in 2022. Previously CEO of Mojo Networks (acquired by Arista Networks) and CEO of Pliant (acqui...
- Rick Wurster
President and CEO of The Charles Schwab Corporation since January 1 2025. Member of the Board of Directors.
- Ridha Azaiz
German engineer and founder of SolarBrush (now Aerial Power / Aerial Agency), who conceived the solar panel cleaning robot concept at age 13. Former Start-Up Ch...
- Rienk Landstra
Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.
- Rinan Cong
CEO of Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer, a leading Chinese medical device manufacturer.
- Rishav Agarwal
Perception Engineer at Gritt. Veteran of Google X and Intrinsic's most advanced robot teams.
- 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.
- Roald Kruit
Co-founder of Mendix. A freelance software developer who noticed the communication disconnect between developers and business users, inspiring the visual low-co...
- Rob Cain
CEO of Adept Technology from 2013 until the Omron acquisition in 2015; led the restructuring that made Adept attractive for acquisition.
- Rob Cochran
Former CTRL-labs and Goldman Sachs executive; co-founded Fauna Robotics in 2024 to build approachable humanoid robots for human spaces.
- Rob Daw
Chief Technology Officer of Hexagon Mining; co-founder of MiPlan (acquired by Hexagon).
- Rob DeMillo
CEO and Co-founder of [Sophia Space](/companies/sophia-space), a company building modular, solar-powered orbital computing infrastructure. He began his career a...
- 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 Hauge
President of SpaceLogistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. Leads the first and only commercial satellite servicing business in GEO.
- Rob Kill
CEO of Parata Systems.
- 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.
- Rob Manning
Chief Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, oversaw Mars rover missions including Curiosity and Perseverance.
- Rob Meyerson
Co-founder of Interlune. Former president of Blue Origin (2013-2017). Aerospace executive with decades of experience in commercial space.
- Rob Oshana
Senior Vice President, Software and Digital Platforms Group at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Rob Roy
Rob Roy is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Switch Inc., a premier data center designer, builder, and operator he established in 2000. He holds over 500 issued...
- Rob Roy
Founder and CEO of Switch. Founded Switch in 2000. Holds 950+ data center patents.
- Rob Sullivan
Co-founder of Symbotic and Alert Robotics, then part-owner of Heartland Automation. Led AutoGuide Mobile Robots' spinoff from Heartland Automation in 2017 and s...
- Robert A Young
Founder of ArcBest.
- Robert A. Dowd
18th President of University of Notre Dame.
- Robert Anderson
Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.
- Robert B. Ford
Chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories since December 2021. Joined Abbott in 1996.
- Robert B. Ford
Robert B. Ford is Chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories, a global medical device and healthcare company developing robotic surgical systems, continuous glucos...
- Robert B. Ford
Chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories.
- Robert Bibow
Managing Partner at Parkway Venture Capital. Serial entrepreneur and investor with prior early investments in Lyft, Didi Chuxing, Compass, Mobileye, and Impossi...
- Robert Bosch
Founder of Bosch.
- Robert Cohen
Founder of PeritasAI, an AI company developing perception and decision systems for autonomous applications.
- Robert Cooper
CEO of Alterra Development with over four decades of construction and development industry expertise. Leads the Alterra Group of Companies based in Toronto.
- Robert Crespi
CEO of CENTRA Digital Interconnect, appointed July 2026. Co-founded Cervalis (sold to CyrusOne in 2015).
- Robert D Kilpatrick
Co-founder of Cigna (1982 merger).
- Robert D. Howe
Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at Harvard SEAS. Heads the Harvard BioRobotics Lab researching bioinspired design, sensing, and motor control...
- 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 E Wood
Founder of Allstate.
- Robert E. Smith
Executive Vice President, Marine Systems at General Dynamics.
- Robert Fields
President and Chief Executive Officer of Corscale Data Centers, developing sustainable high-density data centers.
- Robert Fink
Chief Technology Officer of Helsing; previously a founding engineer at Palantir and an architect of its Foundry data platform.
- Robert Fleming
President of Northrop Grumman Space Systems.
- 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 Friedmann
Chairman of the Central Management Board of the Wurth Group. 20 years as Chairman as of June 2025.
- Robert Henrich
CEO of MOIA from September 2019 to July 2022. Previously COO. Built Europe largest all-electric ridepooling provider.
- Robert Huitl
Co-founder of NavVis, a Munich-based reality capture and digital twin company. Serves as Technical Director of NavVis IVION, leading development of the company'...
- Robert Irving
Co-founder of Rex Bionics. Co-invented the REX exoskeleton with Richard Little in 2003, motivated by personal familiarity with wheelchair use complications.
- Robert Isom
CEO American Airlines. Autonomous aviation investor.
- Robert J Ratliff
Founder of AGCO Corporation.
- Robert J Shillman
Founder of Cognex Corporation.
- Robert J. Jones
34th President of University of Washington.
- Robert J. Palmisano
Healthcare executive with over 40 years of experience leading global medical technology companies. Served as President and CEO of Wright Medical Group N.V. from...
- Robert J. Ratliff
Co-founder of AGCO Corporation (established 1990). Led the management buyout of Deutz-Allis from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG.
- Robert JIA
CEO of Hikrobot. Introduced the "Embodied Smart Manufacturing" paradigm at the Hikrobot Intelligent Manufacturing Conference 2026 in Hangzhou.
- Robert Kleist
European Managing Director of Saildrone; previously in the Royal Danish Navy and VP Sales at Weibel Scientific.
- Robert Knight
Co-founder and Chief Robot Officer of UMA. 25+ years in humanoid robotics design and manufacturing. Pioneer of anatomically accurate robots (CRONOS, ECCERobot) ...
- Robert Lightfoot
President of Lockheed Martin Space a more than 11 billion dollar enterprise employing over 22000 people globally. Former NASA Marshall Space Flight Center direc...
- 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 Lynn
Co-founder of DHL.
- Robert Lynn
Co-founder of DHL.
- Robert Noyce
Co-founder of Intel.
- Robert Painter
CEO of Trimble Inc., a positioning technology company serving agriculture, construction, and geospatial markets.
- Robert Peugeot
Vice Chairman (Non-executive Director) of Stellantis N.V. since January 2021. Chairman of Peugeot Invest (now Honorary Chairman as of May 2025), one of the two ...
- Robert Rose
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Robert Sanchez
Chairman and CEO of Ryder System.
- Robert Scheidt
Professor of biomedical engineering and co-director of the NeuroMotor Control Laboratory at Marquette. Leads NIH-funded research on wearable robotic rehabilitat...
- Robert Schena
Co-founded Rajant Corporation in 2001, pioneering Kinetic Mesh networking and BreadCrumb wireless nodes for defense, mining, and autonomous vehicle applications...
- Robert Scoble
Technology futurist and author of 'The Infinite Retina'; prominent voice covering humanoid robotics and spatial computing
- Robert Shi
Robert Shi is a co-founder of Vault Robotics focused on business operations and prototype development. He received his bachelor's and M.Eng. in Electrical and C...
- Robert Shostak
Computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Vocera Communications in 2000, serving as CTO and chief architect. Previously co-founded Ansa Software (Parad...
- Robert Sullivan
President and CEO of AutoGuide Mobile Robots, leading the AMR developer before its acquisition by Teradyne.
- Robert V. LaPenta
Robert V. LaPenta (born August 20, 1945, Yonkers, New York) is an American aerospace and defense executive who co-founded [L-3 Communications](/companies/l3harr...
- Roberto Cingolani
Former CEO of Leonardo S.p.A. Replaced by Lorenzo Mariani in May 2026.
- Roberto Guzmán
Co-founder and CEO of Robotnik Automation S.L.L. Founded the company in 2002 in Valencia, Spain. Leads the company's strategy and business development in mobile...
- Roberto Martin-Martin
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. Leads the Robin (Robotic Interactive Intelligence) Lab, exploring mechanisms that enable intelligence in e...
- Roberto Rossi
Co-founder and General Manager of Smart Robots S.r.l., a Milan-based deep tech company within the e-Novia group. Smart Robots develops 3D vision and AR systems ...
- Robin Chataut
Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Computer Science. Director, NextGen AI Research Lab. AI/cybersecurity, NSF & NASA funded.
- Robin Khuda
Robin Khuda founded AirTrunk in 2015 and built it into the largest hyperscale data center operator in Asia-Pacific, culminating in Blackstone's US$16B acquisiti...
- Robin Li
Co-founder of Baidu.
- Robin Li (Li Yanhong)
CEO of Baidu Apollo, China's leading autonomous driving platform developing robotaxi and autonomous vehicle technology.
- Robin Murphy
Texas A&M professor and founder of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue; pioneer of disaster robotics
- Robin Saxby
Founder of Arm Holdings.
- Robin Vince
CEO of BNY (formerly BNY Mellon) since September 2022. Chairman of the Board since September 2025.
- Robin Woodby
Co-Founder & CTO of FarmX, building IoT and autonomous systems for agriculture since the company's founding. Previously served as VP of Software Engineering at ...
- Robin Zeng (Zeng Yuqun)
CEO of CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited), the world's largest battery manufacturer for electric vehicles.
- Robin Zeng Yuqun
Founder, Chairman & CEO of CATL. Founded in 2011. Chinese billionaire. CATL has 37.5% global EV battery market share, 15 million EVs. Leading sodium-ion and sol...
- Rochak Sharma
Chief Product Officer of TidalX AI. Leads product strategy for Tidal's AI-powered aquaculture platform, expanding from farm monitoring into the full aquaculture...
- Rocky Duan
Co-founder and CTO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024.
- Rod Barman
Founder and CEO of Lucid Vision Labs.
- Rod Braga
Third-generation farmer and CEO of Braga Fresh, grandson of founders Sebastian and Josie Braga. Leads the family farming company founded in 1928 in Soledad, Cal...
- Rod Zastrow
CEO and President of Bye Aerospace since May 2024, promoted from President and COO. A retired US Air Force Colonel who served 26 years, beginning as an F-15 air...
- Rodion Shishkov
CEO & Co-founder of All3. Heavy-duty construction robotics. 5M seed round led by RTP Global.
- 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...
- Rodolphe Hasselvander
Co-founder and CEO of Blue Frog Robotics, creator of BUDDY the emotional companion robot. Key figure in social robotics, also co-founder of CRIIF, RobotLab, and...
- Rodolphe Saadé
Rodolphe Saadé has been Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM Group since November 2017, succeeding his father Jacques Saadé. Born in Lebanon in 1970, he led negotiations...
- Rodrigo Liang
Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems.
- Roelof Botha
Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia has 20 robotics/physical AI participations including Skild AI, Even Realities.
- Roger Beteille
Co-founder of Airbus.
- Roger Beteille
Airbus founding father and visionary.
- Roger Hine
Founder of Liquid Robotics, created the Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle for long-duration ocean data collection.
- Roger Liu
Chief Operating Officer at Kneron. PhD in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook. 20+ years in semiconductor and AI industry. Former VP for R&D at Senteli...
- Roger Quinn
Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering and Director of the Biologically Inspired Robotics Complex at Case Western Reserve University. Leads biorobotics re...
- Roger Schnüriger
Group CFO of Stäubli since 2023. Previous experience includes group and divisional CFO roles in the medical device sector, with earlier financial leadership rol...
- 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.
- Rogier Barents
CEO of Laevo, a Dutch company developing wearable exoskeletons for industrial and healthcare applications.
- Roh Tae-moon
President and CEO of Samsung Electronics, heading the Device eXperience (DX) Division. Personally leads the newly created Robotics eXperience (RX) Business Prom...
- Rohan Mehta
CEO of BharatBotics, a Bengaluru-based humanoid robotics startup building cost-effective humanoid worker units for factory environments. Led the company to an 8...
- Rohan Mehta
Founder of BharatBotics.
- Rohit Chandra
Executive in the technology/AI industry, linked to registry companies.
- Roland Busch
President and CEO of Siemens AG.
- Roland Schwandt
CEO of SCHOTTEL GmbH since January 1 2026. Succeeded Stefan Kaul.
- Roland Siegwart
Founder of BlueBotics (2001). EPFL professor whose Autonomous Systems Lab spun off the company.
- Roland Welzbacher
Chief Financial Officer of Continental AG since October 1, 2025; Executive Board member since August 1, 2025. Responsible for Group Finance and Controlling, Gro...
- Rolf Stuber
CEO of Smartflyer.
- Roman Axelrod
CEO of XPANCEO.
- Roman Hölzl
CEO and co-founder of RobCo, a Munich-based modular robotics company spun out of TU Munich in 2020.
- Roman Luciani
Co-founder and CTO of DIODON Drone Technology. Leads technical development of inflatable, waterproof maritime drone systems.
- Roman Shtylman
Co-founder and CTO of Foxglove, a robotics observability and development tooling company. Previously software engineer at Cruise and Coinbase. Co-founded Foxglo...
- Ron Alterovitz
Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor at UNC CS. Leads the Computational Robotics Research Group. Research in surgical automation, chemistry lab automation...
- Ron Cao
Founder of Lightspeed China Partners.
- Ron Daniels
14th President of Johns Hopkins University.
- Ron Lewis
CEO of Ball Corporation, leading the global packaging company through its aerospace and beverage can businesses.
- Ron Vachris
CEO of Costco Wholesale.
- Ronald G Wanek
Founder of Ashley Furniture Industries.
- Ronald Wayne
Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Left the company shortly after founding
- Ronan Nopp
Co-founder and CEO of Voltair. University of Washington ECE alumnus (BSECE '25) who independently designed and tuned the controls system for a manned eVTOL airc...
- Ronen Boneh
CEO of Elmo Motion Control since September 2023.
- Ronnie Vuine
Co-founder of [Micropsi Industries](/companies/micropsi-industries), a Berlin-based robotics software company building MIRAI, an AI robot control system that gi...
- Roy Chi Ping Chung
Co-founded Techtronic Industries (TTI) with Horst Pudwill in 1985. Professor; awarded GBS BBS JP honours.
- Roy Jakobs
CEO of Philips (Healthcare division).
- 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...
- Roy Mann
Co-founder and Co-CEO of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2012 and a member of the board of directors. Co-founded monday.com (then dapulse) with Eran Zinman in 2...
- Royal Little
Founder of Textron, the American conglomerate with defense and industrial businesses.
- Ruan Jixiang
Founder and Chairman of Jack Technology (founded 2003), a Chinese industrial sewing machine and intelligent manufacturing company expanding into humanoid roboti...
- Ruben Mendoza
Executive Vice President, President of Foundation Building Materials (FBM) at Lowe's Companies, Inc. Founded FBM and grew it into a national construction-produc...
- Ruben Smits
Co-founded Intermodalics in 2010 as CTO, developing robotics and perception software.
- Rudolf Hausladen
CEO of BEUMER Group.
- Rudolph Schelling
Co-founder (with Hermann Stäubli) of Schelling & Stäubli in 1892 in Horgen, Switzerland, the company that grew into the Stäubli Group - a global leader in indus...
- Rudy Sengupta
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and AI Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- Ruitong Zheng
CTO of Tanway Technology, developing control systems and AI for industrial robotics.
- Runal Dahiwade
Founder and CEO of Peppermint Robotics in Pune, India, developing autonomous floor cleaning robots.
- Rune Braastad
Rune Braastad is the President of ABB's Marine & Ports division as of 2025, succeeding Juha Koskela; he previously led the Marine HUB Division for the U.S. and ...
- Russ Tedrake
MIT professor and former SVP of Large Behavior Models at Toyota Research Institute. Pioneered Diffusion Policy, Large Behavior Models, and the Drake simulator. ...
- Russell Kline
Chief Regulatory Officer at DEXA, leading the company's FAA regulatory strategy and compliance efforts, including securing the national BVLOS waiver.
- 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.
- Rusty Wiley
CEO of Datasite.
- Rutger Vrijen
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of NXP Semiconductors. Leads corporate strategy and business development.
- Ryan Bloomer
Founder and CEO of Petal Surgical, an incisionless robotic surgery company developing acoustic liquefaction technology for outpatient-ready procedures. Also Fou...
- Ryan Calo
Ryan Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the University of Washington School of Law (also credited as the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel ...
- Ryan Campbell
President of John Deere Construction and Forestry.
- Ryan Dawson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Corva, the premier AI platform for oil and gas operations.
- Ryan Dougherty
Sensor Fusion Lead at Point One Navigation. Previously Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Propulsion Engineer at Space Systems Loral, and Senio...
- 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 Gordon
Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Cormint Data Systems, a West Texas–based Bitcoin mining company operating out of Fort Stockton, Texas. Leads the data...
- Ryan Gury
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Performance Drone Works (PDW), a U.S. defense drone manufacturer. Previously co-founded the Drone Racing League (DRL)...
- Ryan Kempley
Founder and CEO of ISS Aerospace, a Newbury, UK-based company developing autonomous unmanned aerial systems for defense and commercial applications. Founded ISS...
- Ryan Lance
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConocoPhillips since 2012. Transitioning to Executive Chair on Sept 1 2026.
- Ryan Luke Johns
Architect, roboticist, and CEO/Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup deploying autonomous heavy machinery for construction. Co-founded architectural re...
- Ryan Sinnet
Co-founder and CTO of Miso Robotics; a Caltech engineer who co-founded the company in 2016.
- Ryan Sochol
Associate Professor at UMD, Interim Director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Succeeded Prof. Derek Paley.
- Ryan Tseng
Co-founder and CEO of Shield AI; previously founded wireless-power company WiPower (acquired by Qualcomm).
- Ryan Westerdahl
Co-founder and CEO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Former [SpaceX](/companies/spacex) propulsion engineer with 8.5 years working on Merlin, SuperDra...
- Ryohei Kobayashi
Japanese aerospace engineer and co-founder/CEO of [ElevationSpace](/companies/elevationspace), developing in-space manufacturing, orbital laboratory, and satell...
- S N Subrahmanyan
Chairman and Managing Director of Larsen and Toubro. Named Best CEO in Super Large Corporate category by Fortune Magazine in 2025.
- S.Y. Hsu
Co-CEO of ASUS. Taiwanese computer hardware and electronics manufacturer. Leading AI PC trends and supply chain innovation.
- Sabine Klauke
German aerospace executive at [Airbus](/companies/airbus). Served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and EVP Engineering from July 2021, leading a team of more t...
- Sachit Butail
Associate Professor at NIU CEET researching swarm robotics, collective behavior, and human-robot interaction using information theory and mathematical modeling....
- Safar V
Co-founder and CTO of Mowito. Graduate of IIT Madras (mechanical engineering). Previously at Tata Steel as management trainee.
- Sai Shivareddy
Co-founder and CEO of Nyobolt, a Cambridge, UK-based battery technology company spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2019. Dr. Sai Shivareddy holds a Ph.D...
- Said Zhang
NEO. Asian VC.
- Sajjad Asif
Chief Technology Officer of ZenaTech. 18 years of professional experience in software and drone technologies. MS in Software Engineering from Blekinge Tekniska ...
- 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 Altman
Co-founder of Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup backed by OpenAI Ventures that aims to rival Neuralink by fusing human brains with AI systems. Also...
- Sam Chwarzynski
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). CFO and President.
- Sam Chwarzynski
Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). CFO and President.
- Sam Dugan
Co-founder of [Upside Robotics](/companies/upside-robotics), a Waterloo, Ontario ag-tech startup building autonomous solar-powered robots for precision fertiliz...
- Sam Macdonald
Co-founder and president of Deep Trekker (founded 2010 with Jeff Lotz), the Canadian maker of portable underwater ROVs.
- Sam Mehta
American aerospace and defense executive; President & CEO of L3Harris Technologies since August 17, 2026, appointed after Christopher Kubasik was removed for co...
- Sam Tabar
CEO of Bit Digital (NASDAQ: BTBT), a global HPC infrastructure and digital asset production company. Formerly managing director at Centerboard Securities.
- Sam-Man Kim
Founder of Daedong Corporation in 1947. Founded the company alongside his four brothers during Korea's post-war industrialization, initially as a metal casting ...
- 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.
- Samantha Walters
Samantha Walters was appointed CEO of Colocation America on May 1, 2025. She previously founded Textbook Balanced, a consulting firm focused on empowering nonpr...
- Samarth Maira
Co-founder and CCO of Blueprint Data Centers.
- Samay Kohli
Co-founder of GreyOrange; transitioned to the board of directors in April 2023.
- Sameer Joshi
Co-founder, CEO & Director of NewSpace Research and Technologies. Former Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot. Leads NRT's aerospace and defence R&D programs.
- Sameer Sheth
Co-founder of Motif Neurotech, a Houston-based therapeutic brain-computer interface company developing the Motif XCS System for treatment-resistant depression. ...
- 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...
- Sami Niiranen
President and CEO of Kalmar since April 2025, with over 20 years of international business leadership experience.
- 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...
- Sammy Kobayashi
President and CEO of Canon U.S.A.
- 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. ...
- Samuel Bouchard
Co-founder and CEO of Robotiq, Canadian collaborative robot gripper and sensor company.
- Samuel Boucher
Co-founder and CEO of Kinova Robotics; building lightweight robotic arms and assistive robotic platforms for accessibility
- Samuel Lee
Co-founder and former CEO of [Digital Edge](/companies/digital-edge), a Singapore-based data center platform operating facilities across Asia. Lee stepped down ...
- Sander Pop
Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.
- Sander Sebastian Agur
CEO of Clevon, an Estonian autonomous delivery vehicle company developing electric cargo rovers for last-mile logistics.
- Sander Smeets
Founder and CEO of DeltaQuad (originally Vertical Technologies), established in 2012. Led the pivot from commercial mapping to a pure defence player, with Delta...
- Sandrine Prunière
CEO of Mobsya, the nonprofit association that produces Thymio educational robots.
- Sandy Lerner
American businesswoman and philanthropist; co-founded [Cisco Systems](/companies/cisco) in 1984 with her then-partner Leonard Bosack while both were staff at St...
- Sandy Milley
President and CEO of ELXSI Corporation, the parent company of CUES Inc., a leading Orlando-based manufacturer of pipeline inspection and rehabilitation equipmen...
- Sanford I Weill
Founder of Citigroup.
- Sangbae Kim
MIT professor and director of the Biomimetic Robotics Lab; designed MIT Cheetah and Mini Cheetah; expert in legged locomotion
- 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.
- Sanjay Kirloskar
Chairman and Managing Director of Kirloskar Brothers Limited the largest pump manufacturer in India.
- Sanjay Mehrotra
Chairman, President and CEO of Micron Technology since 2017. Chairman since January 2025. Co-founder of SanDisk. Indian-American semiconductor industry veteran.
- Sanjeev Kumar
Founder of Alphadroid, a Noida-based robotics and AI startup building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for hospitality, healthcare, retail, and logistics. The id...
- Sanjiv Lamba
Chairman and CEO of Linde plc.
- Sanjiv Puri
CEO of ITC Limited, a diversified Indian conglomerate with businesses in FMCG, hotels, paper, and agribusiness.
- 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...
- Sara Blakely
Founder of Spanx.
- Sarah Gates
VP of Global Affairs and Assurance at Wayve.
- Sarah Hatchett
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Sarah London
CEO of Centene Corporation, a Fortune 25 healthcare enterprise focused on government-sponsored healthcare programs.
- Sarah Tuneberg
CIO and Executive Director of Colorado OIT.
- Sarjoun Skaff
Co-founder and CTO/CEO of Bossa Nova Robotics (now Badger Technologies), a retail robotics company.
- Sasan Goodarzi
CEO of Intuit, a financial software company known for TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint.
- Sascha Meyer
CEO of MOIA since August 2022. Previously CPO, led product strategy and autonomous driving activities since joining in 2017.
- Sassine Ghazi
President and CEO of Synopsys.
- Satish Dhanasekaran
President and Chief Executive Officer of Keysight Technologies since 2022. Leading the electronic design and test solutions company.
- Satish Movva
Founder and CEO of CarePredict, a senior care technology company using predictive AI for eldercare.
- Satoshi Ogiso
CTO of Archion Corporation; former executive at Toyota with extensive automotive and robotics engineering experience.
- Satoshi Sakaguchi
CFO of TIER IV since 2018, overseeing finance operations. A Certified Public Accountant with extensive experience in financial audit, investment, and corporate ...
- Satoshi Sugie
Co-founder and CEO of WHILL, a Japanese personal-mobility company developing design-forward electric wheelchairs and autonomous mobility devices. Led WHILL from...
- Satya Nadella
CEO of Microsoft. Strategic investments in robotics/AI.
- Satyandra K. Gupta
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); Smith-Zwijnenburg Professor and director of the USC ADDIT Lab at the University of Souther...
- Saurabh Chandra
CEO and founder of ATI Motors, developing autonomous mobile robots for factories and warehouses. Also announced the Sherpa Mecha manufacturing humanoid.
- SC Juang
CEO of Point Robotics MedTech, developing robotic-assisted spinal surgery systems.
- Scott Bellamy
Divisional General Manager of Product Management for Liebherr Mining. Led the AHS onsite validation deployment in Western Australia.
- Scott Bledsoe
American aerospace executive who founded and served as President of Blue Force Technologies, a U.S. defense company that designed and built the Fury adversarial...
- Scott Boatwright
CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill. Leading back-of-house kitchen automation with Autocado guacamole robot and robotic assembly lines.
- Scott Cook
Co-founder of Intuit.
- Scott French
Executive General Manager of Codan Critical Communications (Zetron), appointed February 2019. Leads Zetron, headquartered in the USA with operations in Canada, ...
- Scott Glenn
Co-founded Dexcom in 1999.
- Scott Harris
Executive at CNH Industrial / Case IH. Board member involved in agricultural equipment manufacturing.
- Scott Hassan
Software engineer and entrepreneur who founded Suitable Technologies as a spinoff from Willow Garage. He was an early investor in Google, a key figure in its ea...
- Scott J. DeBoer
EVP, Chief Technology and Products Officer at Micron Technology. Leading Micron's technology roadmap for DRAM, NAND, and emerging memory technologies.
- Scott Kobylarz
President & CEO of Kionix, Inc. Over 28 years of experience in the automotive and MEMS industries, including executive leadership roles.
- Scott Koziol
Associate Professor at Baylor University, directs the Neuromorphic & Robotic Systems Lab. Expertise in robotics, embedded systems, signal processing, neuromorph...
- Scott L. Strazik
CEO and President of GE Vernova.
- Scott Lampe
President of Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions (HMTS), a 160,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Concord, North Carolina. Returned to Hend...
- Scott LaValley
Founder of Cartwheel Robotics.
- Scott McNeely
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LandBridge Company LLC and WaterBridge. Joined LandBridge in September 2021 as VP, Finance; previously S...
- Scott Moen
Technical and product leader with two decades of experience in robotics and logistics. Previously engineering leader at Airhouse alongside Kevin Gibbon.
- Scott Parent
Chief Technology Officer for Digital Solutions and Enterprise Technology at [Baker Hughes](/companies/baker-hughes), responsible for driving disruptive digital ...
- Scott Peters
Co-founder and CEO of Construction Robotics. Expert in robotics and construction technology.
- Scott Phillips
President and CEO of Hiab.
- Scott Phoenix
Co-founder and CEO of Neura Robotics; building cognitive humanoid robots including the 4NE-1 platform
- Scott Ritchie Meyers
CFO and Corporate Secretary of [Realbotix](/companies/realbotix) (OTC: XBOTF), a developer of humanoid robots and AI systems. Oversees financial operations and ...
- Scott Willis
President and CEO of DartPoints.
- Scott Xingang Liang
Co-founder and Corporate VP of Baicells Technologies, a Beijing-based telecoms equipment firm founded in 2014 that supplies 4G/5G base stations and routers acro...
- Sean Bare
Executive in the technology/robotics industry, linked to registry companies.
- 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 O'Connor
CEO of 4AG Robotics, a Canadian ag-robotics company (Salmon Arm, British Columbia) developing autonomous mushroom harvesting robots that retrofit into existing ...
- Sean O'Sullivan
Founder of SOSV. Runs HAX hardware accelerator in Shenzhen/SF.
- 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.
- Sean Robinson
CEO of STIGA S.p.A. Partnered with SiMa.ai for AI-powered robotic lawn mowers in 2026.
- Sean Rogers
Chief Financial Officer of Rendezvous Robotics, appointed November 2025. A 25-year finance veteran, he previously served as Managing Director and Global Head of...
- Sebastiaan Visser
Co-founder and CTO of Monumental, the autonomous-bricklaying robotics company.
- Sebastian Asprella
Co-founder and CEO of ThinkOrbital.
- Sebastian Braga
Founder of Braga Fresh (originally Braga Farms) in 1928 in Soledad, California, in the Salinas Valley. Arrived in South Monterey County in 1918 and started leas...
- Sebastian Hilsenbeck
Co-founder of NavVis, a Munich-based reality capture and digital twin company. Serves as Senior Director of NavVis IVION, the company's cloud-based spatial data...
- Sebastian Steinhaeuser
Chief Operating Officer of SAP SE since February 2025. Member of the Executive Board. Oversees business operations, IT, ecosystem, and commercial functions, inc...
- Sebastian Thrun
Pioneer of the self-driving industry. Led Google's self-driving car project (later Waymo). Co-founded Google Brain, Google X, and Udacity. Previously led Kittyh...
- Sébastien Bazin
Sébastien Bazin is Chairman and CEO of Accor Group, Europe's leading hotel group; appointed in August 2013, he has overseen the company's testing of robotic roo...
- Sébastien Bazin
Chairman and CEO of Accor Group.
- Sebastien Dignard
CEO of Macnica Atlantic region.
- Sebastien Dumenil
Chief Commercial Officer of Exotrail, completing the executive committee responsible for the company's commercial strategy and growth.
- Sébastien Roverso
French entrepreneur and roboticist; co-founder of [PAZZI](/companies/pazzi) (originally EKIM) in 2013 alongside Cyrill Hamon. Developed the world's first autono...
- Sebastien Vigneron
CEO of Wisk Aero, an urban air mobility company developing autonomous eVTOL aircraft for passenger transport.
- Seemantini Godbole
Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Information Officer of Lowe's Companies, Inc. Leads the enterprise-wide global technology team covering engineering,...
- Seiji Izumisawa
CEO of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a Japanese conglomerate in aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial equipment.
- 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...
- Seiuemon Inaba
Founder of FANUC.
- Seo Jong-hwi
Co-CEO of Hanwha Robotics. Led the B-Robotics joint venture agreement alongside Kim Min-soo.
- 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.
- Sergei Nikiforovich
Director of BelAZ since appointment by the Belarusian government. Designated on the US Treasury SDN list in March 2023 for his role as a leader of the Belarusia...
- Sergei Sorokin
CEO of Highlight AI, an AI company developing computer vision and perception systems for autonomous applications.
- Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Alphabet Inc. and Google (founded 1998). Created Google's PageRank algorithm with Larry Page.
- Sergey Levine
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and associate professor at UC Berkeley; previously a research scientist at Google Brain. PhD from Stanford.
- Seth Runser
President & CEO of ArcBest. Logistics company deploying autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and Vaux Smart Autonomy for supply chain efficiency.
- Sethu Saveda Suvanam
Founder and CEO of ReOrbit.
- Sethu Vijayakumar
University of Edinburgh professor and director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; expert in humanoid motor control and machine learning
- Seungkee Baek
Vice President of Lotte Institute of Logistics Technology. Led the warehouse automation project with CoEvolution's CO-PICK multi-fleet robot orchestration syste...
- Shad Kroeger
President of TE Connectivity's Industrial Solutions segment, comprising the Automation & Connected Living sector plus Energy, Medical, Digital Data Networks, Ch...
- Shahar Abuhazira
CEO of [Easy Aerial](/companies/easy-aerial), a leading provider of autonomous tethered aerial intelligence and defense systems. Leads the company's expansion o...
- Shahin Farshchi
General Partner at Lux Capital. Led investments in Hadrian, Auris Health, and other deep-tech companies.
- Shahriar Negahdaripour
Pioneer in computer vision for underwater robotics; optical and sonar/acoustic imaging for undersea applications; MIT-trained; IEEE OES Fellow (2012); 150+ publ...
- Shai Magzimof
Founder and former CEO of [Phantom Auto](/companies/phantom-auto), a teleoperation / remote-driving startup he co-founded in 2017 and led until the company shut...
- 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 ...
- Shail Giroux
Co-founder and COO of Singularity, a defense company building low-cost air defense interceptors at scale. Previously built and sold a farming robotics company a...
- Shailesh Jejurikar
Chairman, President and CEO of Procter and Gamble.
- Shan Jizhang
CEO of Black Sesame Technologies, a Chinese AI chip company providing perception solutions for autonomous driving.
- Shan Luo
Professor and Chair of Robotics and AI at Kings College London.
- Shan Zhongde
Administrator of the China National Space Administration, overseeing China's civil space program including lunar and Mars exploration missions.
- Shane A. Berg
Senior Vice President, External Affairs at General Dynamics.
- 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...
- Shane O'Kelly
President and CEO of Advance Auto Parts since September 2023.
- Shane O'Neill
CEO of Advance Auto Parts (note may have changed).
- Shankar Chandran
Head of Samsung Next. 7 robotics/physical AI participations.
- Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe, one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. He has led Adobe's ...
- Shaodong Zhu
CEO of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd.
- Shaojie Shen
Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST and CEO of Zhuoyu Technology (formerly DJI Automotive). He earned his BEng...
- Sharyl Givens
Chief People Officer of Shield AI.
- Shaun Barlow
Director and Chief Product Officer at Reach Robotics. Leads product development for subsea manipulator systems.
- Shaun Maguire
Partner at Sequoia Capital (seed/early stage). Listed on Sequoia's official Our Team page. Known for investments in defense and frontier technology companies. P...
- Shaun Passley, PhD
Founder, Chairman and CEO of ZenaTech (NASDAQ: ZENA). Over 25 years in software industry, 10+ years leading public companies. PhD in Business Management and MBA...
- Shaun Robison
President and CEO of Microchip Technology.
- Shawn Clark
CEO of CRG Partners.
- Shawn Clark
CEO of CRG (Clayco).
- Shawn Driver
Co-founder of HavocAI, serving in senior leadership roles across multi-domain programs.
- Shawn Lewis
Co-founder of Weights & Biases.
- Shawn McLaughlin
Co-Founder and Board Member of Luxonis, an embedded computer vision company.
- Shayegan Omidshafiei
Former research scientist at Google and DeepMind, where he led research on single and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. Met co-founder Ali Agha at MIT du...
- 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...
- Sheldon Bennett
CEO of DMG Blockchain Solutions, a blockchain and AI infrastructure company.
- Sheng Ding
President of SAVOYE. Appointed Julien Calloud as CEO in June 2025.
- Sheng Fu
CEO of Cheetah Mobile and OrionStar, leading the deployment of 16,800+ AI service robots across retail, hospitality, and education in China.
- Shengping Tu
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineer of Robotphoenix. Born 1983.
- Shenu Agarwal
MD and CEO of Ashok Leyland.
- Shi Jinbo
CEO of QKM Technology, a Chinese robotics company providing industrial motion control and automation solutions.
- Shi Lei (石磊)
Co-founder of Guangzhou Shipeng Technology (SEEPPO). PhD and electrical control systems expert with 8 years of exoskeleton control system R&D experience. Former...
- Shigeki Mori
Former President and CEO of NSG Group (Nippon Sheet Glass). Appointed Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO after leading the Architectural Glass ...
- Shigeki Sugano
Professor at Waseda University, Director of the Institute for Human Robot Co-Creation. Research focuses on human-symbiotic anthropomorphic robot design, manipul...
- Shigenobu Nagamori
Founder of Nidec Corporation (1973), the world's largest manufacturer of small precision motors — critical for robotic joint actuation, EVs, and industrial auto...
- 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).
- Shikha Virmani
Founder and Managing Director of Cyborg Robotics Academy.
- Shimon Elkabetz
Co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow.io (formerly ClimaCell), a Boston-based weather intelligence and climate adaptation platform founded in 2016. Served 11 years in ...
- Shin Dong-bin
Chairman of Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate. Has emphasized AI as a 'survival challenge for businesses' and is driving Lotte's pivot towar...
- Shin Dong-Mok
CEO of Rainbow Robotics; building HUBO-derived humanoid and cobot platforms; HUBO won DARPA Robotics Challenge
- Shin Ick-hyun
CEO and President of LIG Nex1 (now LIG Defense & Aerospace). Retired Korean Air Force officer who previously served as vice president at the firm before being a...
- Shin Kamagata
President and Representative Director of Hirose Electric Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese electronic connector manufacturer. Appointed President in 2025.
- Shinkyu Park
Director of KAUST RISC Lab.
- 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...
- Shinpei Kato
Founder and CEO of [Tier IV](/companies/tier-iv), co-founder and Fellow of the Autoware Foundation, and specially appointed professor at the University of Tokyo...
- Shiquan Wang
Founder and CEO of [Flexiv](/companies/flexiv), the Shanghai-based adaptive robotics company (founded June 2016, Stanford University spin-out). Led Flexiv to un...
- Shireesh Kedare
Director of IIT Bombay.
- Shirine Khoury-Haq
Group CEO of Co-op from 2022 to 2025. First female and first ethnic minority chief executive of the Co-op since its founding in 1844. Joined Co-op in 2019 as CF...
- Shiro Sakushima
President, Representative Director, and CEO of Kyocera Corporation since April 2026.
- Shiwei Wang
CEO of Tanway Technology, a Chinese robotics company developing industrial automation solutions.
- Shlomo Ben Haim
Israeli-born professor of medicine, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Motorika (2004), a robotic rehabilitation solutions company. Holds faculty appointmen...
- Shozo Kawasaki
Founder of Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard in 1878, the origin of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and its shipbuilding division.
- Shrikant Sarda
Co-founder and board member of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform based in Gurugram. Has been...
- Shuichi Nagao
CTO of Omakase Robotics (a division of ZEALS), leading development of Omakase OS — the robotics operating system that turns humanoid robots into reliable worker...
- Shunsuke Aoki
Japanese robotics entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of ATOM (atom-humanoid.com), a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics company building bipedal robots for manufacturing a...
- 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...
- Shuran Song
Stanford professor; former Columbia professor; expert in 3D vision and robot manipulation; developed DexPoint and other manipulation tools
- Siavash Rezazadeh
Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Denver's Ritchie School, leading the Robotics, Locomotion, and Control Lab and developme...
- Siddhartha Srinivasa
Professor at UW Allen School, founded the Personal Robotics Lab in 2005. Research in robotic manipulation, motion planning, and human-robot interaction.
- Siddhesh Ravindra Naik
Co-founder & CEO of Ulook Technologies, a Bengaluru-based space-intelligence startup building autonomous RF-sensing satellite swarms. Has experience working wit...
- 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...
- Silvio Napoli
CEO of Lucid Motors.
- Silvius Rus
Senior VP of Engineering at Wayve; previously an Engineering Director at Google (datacenter compute + TPU infra). PhD from Texas A&M.
- Simon Alibert
Co-founder and CTO of UMA. Co-founded LeRobot at Hugging Face, building the project's codebase and infrastructure into one of the most impactful AI-for-robotics...
- Simon Brunet
Med device veteran. Leads platform engineering.
- Simon Carroll
Co-founder and CTO of Agovor. Electrical engineer who co-founded the company with Richard Beaumont in 2022. Leads technical development of the eTractor platform...
- Simon Chen
Group CEO and founder of ICE Cobotics, a commercial cleaning robotics company he established in 2011. With over 30 years in the commercial cleaning equipment in...
- Simon Fischinger
CEO of Synapticon effective January 1, 2026. Previously served as COO. Has been with the company since 2013. Instrumental in establishing product development an...
- 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...
- Simon Meester
President and Chief Executive Officer of Terex Corporation since January 2024.
- Simon Sharon
General Manager and Chief Technology Officer at Microbot Medical, leading R&D for the LIBERTY Endovascular Robotic System.
- Simon Shining Yang
Former CEO and Deputy Chairman of YMTC. Resigned as CEO in July 2022 citing personal reasons, remained as deputy chairman.
- Simon Watt
Co-founder of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM with co-founder Barney Wragg.
- Simonas Stasevičius
Co-founder of PDKINEMATICS. Aerospace engineer who began developing precision-guided munitions for UAVs with Rapolas Markevičius in 2022 in response to Russia's...
- Simone Fabris
VP of Product and Delivery at Wayve.
- Siv Juvik Tveitnes
CEO of Schibsted Media, leading the Nordic media company digital transformation and AI integration across editorial workflows. Oversaw the 2025 acquisitions of ...
- 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.
- Sofia Paganelli
Co-founder and Lead Firmware Engineer at Agade. Featured in company interviews discussing Agade's mission and exoskeleton development.
- Soichiro Honda
Founder of Honda Motor Company.
- Soichiro Nakamura
Co-founder and CEO of SEQSENSE, a Tokyo-based autonomous security robot company spun out of Meiji University in 2016. Under his leadership, SEQSENSE developed t...
- Son Jae-il
CEO of Hanwha Aerospace, leading the company's defense and aerospace business. Booked under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act following the June 2026 Daejeon...
- Son Le
Co-founder of [1Robot](/companies/1robot), a Bay Area startup building software that coordinates people, robots, autonomous vehicles, and AI agents for real-wor...
- Song Ki-young
Serial entrepreneur and computer vision expert. Founded SuaLab (AI-based visual inspection for manufacturing), which was acquired by Cognex for ~$200M in 2019 —...
- Song Kiyoung
Co-founder and CEO of SUALAB, a Seoul-based deep learning machine vision company acquired by Cognex in October 2019. Later founded Holiday Robotics in 2024, a h...
- Soo Cho
Chief People Officer of Saronic; previously head of people / employment counsel at Palantir and COO at Merlin Labs.
- Soomi Park
LG Technology Ventures. Invested in Skild AI, Holiday Robotics.
- Soon-Jo Chung
Professor at Caltech, research in distributed spacecraft systems, space autonomous systems, and aerospace robotics.
- Søren Vilby
Chairman of the Board of Blue Ocean Robotics, overseeing the company's restructuring and focus on pharmaceutical sector growth.
- 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.
- Sotirios Stasinopoulos
Chief Product Officer at Humanoid. Oversees product development for the HMND 01 platform.
- Spencer Allen
Chief technology officer of Aethon and a named inventor of the TUG autonomous-delivery robot system.
- Spencer Mullee
Spencer Mullee is CEO of Centersquare, previously CEO of Evoque Data Center Solutions. He has over 25 years of experience managing data centers in the US.
- Spencer Mullee
CEO of Csquare.
- Sreekanth Reddy Vajrala
Founder and CEO of [FarmRobo Technologies](/companies/farmrobo-technologies), a Hyderabad-based agritech startup building affordable autonomous farm robots for ...
- Sridhar Pinnapureddy
Sridhar Pinnapureddy founded CtrlS Datacenters in 2007 and built it into one of India's largest Tier-IV hyperscale data center operators with 19 facilities.
- Srinivas K Pai
Co-Founder & CEO of Pace Robotics. Civil engineer with 15+ years construction project management experience. Heads customer and business development.
- Srinivasan KG Ganapathi
Founder and CEO of [Vimaan](/companies/vimaan), a Santa Clara-based warehouse inventory intelligence company building computer-vision and AI platforms for 100% ...
- Stan Boland
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Founder of Five, an autonomous vehicles platform acquired by Bosch in 2022. Angel investor and advisor to Stateful Robot...
- Stan Shih
Co-founder of Acer Inc.
- Stan Shih
Co-founder of Acer Inc.
- Stan Zurkiewicz
CEO and Chairman of DEKRA, a global inspection and certification organization.
- Stanley Buchesky
CEO of pi-top, an education technology company providing build-your-own computer kits for STEM learning.
- Stanley Tang
Co-founder and Head of DoorDash Labs, DoorDash's internal robotics and automation organization, since November 2017. Previously served as Chief Product Officer ...
- Stas Tiomkin
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. Awarded a 105,524 USD NSF grant in June 2025 for research on robot viability...
- Stefan Berendsen
Co-founder of Basler AG in 1988 alongside Norbert Basler.
- Stefan Borchers
Managing Director responsible for Finance and Services at Vaillant Group.
- Stefan Dräger
Fifth-generation leader of the family-owned Dräger company, serving as Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO) since 2005. Born in Lübeck in 1963, joined the comp...
- Stefan Finkbeiner
CEO of Bosch Sensortec.
- Stefan Grosch
Member of the board of management and director of industrial relations at Robert Bosch GmbH since April 1, 2023. Responsible for human resources and social welf...
- Stefan Hartung
Chairman of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch invests in NEURA, Humanoid Ltd.
- Stefan Hrabar
Co-founded Emesent in 2018 with Farid Kendoul after decade of robotics research at CSIRO. CEO. Hovermap LiDAR mapping.
- Stefan Klebert
CEO and Chairman of GEA Group AG since 2019, responsible for overall strategic direction of the food and beverage processing technology company.
- Stefan Leutenegger
Director of Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich.
- Stefan Roebel
Co-founder and COO of ARX Robotics, a Munich-based defense robotics company building modular unmanned ground systems. Former German Bundeswehr officer who serve...
- Stefan Seltz-Axmacher
Co-founder and CEO of Starsky Robotics, an autonomous trucking company that conducted the first driverless freight run on a public highway before shutting down ...
- Stefan Vilsmeier
German entrepreneur and self-taught computer programmer. Founded Brainlab in 1989 in Munich and has been its CEO since inception. Also CEO of Snke Holding SE (f...
- Stefan Weirich
Co-founder and CEO of Mimic Robotics. ETH Zurich researcher turned entrepreneur leading the company's go-to-market and business strategy.
- Stefanie Tellex
Full Professor of Computer Science at Brown University (promoted July 2025). Research in robotic communication, human-robot interaction, and language for robots...
- Stefano Domenicali
President and CEO of Formula One Group through 2029.
- Stefano Quintarelli
Italian technologist and former parliamentarian who chaired the AI expert group at the Council of Europe
- Stefano Vitale
President and CEO of System Logistics Corporation (US operations) since June 2017. Over 23 years of executive experience in the food and beverage industry.
- 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.
- Steph Tryphonas
Co-founder of [Collaborative Robotics](/companies/collaborative-robotics) (brand name Cobot), the Santa Clara-based collaborative robotics company founded in 20...
- Stephan Gspandl
Co-founder and CEO of incubed IT, an Austrian AMR software company acquired by Verizon in February 2021. TU Graz graduate and member of the university's RoboCup...
- Stephan Huber
CEO of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, a leading German manufacturer of stepper and BLDC motors with integrated controllers/drives for robotics and automation...
- Stephan von Schuckmann
CEO of Sensata Technologies since January 2025.
- Stephan Wolf
German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Volocopter (originally as e-volo GmbH) in 2011 with Alexander Zosel and Thomas Senkel. The Bruchsal-based compan...
- Stephan-Daniel Gravert
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Robotics. Leads hardware design including the Mimic Hand M1 and Mimic Wearable U1 exoskeleton.
- Stephane Bedard
High-tech entrepreneur. Founder, President & CEO of B-TEMIA Inc. from January 2010 to September 2023 (13 years 9 months). Previously COO & Founder at Victhom.
- Stephane de La Faverie
President and CEO of The Estee Lauder Companies.
- Stéphane Lavallée
Founder and Chairman of eCential Robotics (formerly Surgivisio), a Grenoble-based surgical robotics company developing an open platform unifying real-time navig...
- Stephanie Sidelko
Vice President, Head of Strategy and Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Stephen Budorick
President and Chief Executive Officer of COPT Defense Properties (NYSE: CDP), formerly Corporate Office Properties Trust.
- Stephen Elkind
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beltline Energy.
- Stephen Hayes Dacus
President and CEO of Seven and i Holdings, parent company of 7-Eleven. First foreign CEO.
- Stephen J. Squeri
Chairman and CEO of American Express since 2018.
- Stephen Jacobsen
University of Utah professor and bioengineer who founded Sarcos Research Corporation in 1983. Pioneered powered exoskeletons and animatronic robotics. Left the ...
- Stephen James
Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, leading the Safe Whole-body Intelligent Robotics Lab (SWIRL). CEO & Founder of Neuracore, a robot learning cloud...
- Stephen Klein
Co-founder and CEO of Hyphen Technologies, developing AI-powered automated makeline systems for restaurant kitchens.
- Stephen Perry
President of Digital Fortress Data Centers and Colocation.
- Stephen Weis
Professor, Dept. of Engineering. Senior Design advisor, advised Coté Cruiser USV project.
- Stephen Winchell
Director of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the 24th director, appointed May 2025. Physicist and AI/autonomy expert.
- Steve Adlich
CEO of Edge Autonomy who led the company through its $925 million acquisition by Redwire (NYSE: RDW) in 2025. Now serves as President of Redwire Defense Tech, o...
- Steve Augustine
Vice President at HistoSonics, a medical device company pioneering histotripsy — focused ultrasound for non-invasive mechanical destruction of liver tumors.
- Steve Bangert
Co-founder of [MathWorks](/companies/mathworks-robotics) in 1984 alongside [Jack Little](/people/jack-little) and [Cleve Moler](/people/cleve-moler). Rewrote th...
- Steve Cahillane
Chairman and CEO of Kellanova until Mars acquisition December 2025.
- Steve Cahillane
Chairman, President and CEO of Kellanova. Led the company through its acquisition by Mars completed December 2025. Departing to become CEO of Kraft Heinz in Jan...
- 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
CEO of Willow Garage (2008-2014); founder and CEO of Savioke, now Relay Robotics.
- Steve Croney
CEO of Comcast Cable (from Jan 2026).
- Steve Dias
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Realtime Robotics, with 30+ years of experience building high-performing software teams. Previously Senior Director of S...
- Steve Filipov
Steve Filipov is President MHPS at Terex Port Solutions.
- Steve Gorevan
Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983. Pioneered planetary drilling and sampling systems for NASA missions.
- Steve Hasker
President and CEO of Thomson Reuters, leading a company of 27,000+ people in over 75 countries.
- Steve Hedlund
CEO of Lincoln Electric, a welding equipment company developing robotic welding systems.
- Steve Hill
Founder of BlueHalo. Former CEO of AEgis Technologies.
- Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Pioneer of the personal computer revolution and later the iPhone and iPad.
- Steve Kempf
CEO of Lee Spring.
- Steve King
Founder and CEO of Dragonfly AI, an AI-powered creative optimization platform.
- Steve Koerner
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Steve Miller
CEO of Bulk Handling Systems, a materials recovery company using AI-guided robotics for waste sorting.
- Steve ODea
Chief Operating Officer of Apptronik, leading engineering, manufacturing, field service and IT.
- Steve Perez
Steve Perez was CEO, President and co-founder of 5C Data Centers (alongside co-founder Patrick Bensabat); the company was acquired by Hypertec Cloud in 2025 to ...
- Steve Pretz
CEO & President of BouMatic since 2006. Oversees all worldwide commercial and operational activities for the global dairy equipment manufacturer. Joined the mil...
- Steve Reinharz
Founder and CEO of RAD (Robotic Assistance Devices), developing autonomous security patrol robots.
- Steve Saunders
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Robotics Plus, acquired by Yamaha Motor in 2025. New Zealand agricultural technology entrepreneur.
- 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 Walters
President and CEO of Hoverfly Technologies, developing tethered drone systems for persistent surveillance and defense
- Steve Wasilowski
Co-founder of PaintJet (founded 2020), the robotic exterior-painting company.
- Steve Wollenberg
Chief Commercial Officer at [MightyFly](/companies/mightfly), bringing over 30 years of experience in business development, sales, operations, and engineering a...
- Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Designed the Apple I and Apple II personal computers.
- Steve Xie
Ph.D. Founder and CEO of Lightwheel. Previously worked at NIO, NVIDIA, and Cruise. Columbia Business School.
- Steve Yang
Co-CEO of WuXi AppTec. Leading global CRDMO platform for pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
- Steven Barrett
British aerospace engineer and co-founder/CEO of [Cambridge Aerospace](/companies/cambridge-aerospace), developing affordable interceptors for a European 'Iron ...
- Steven Dodge
Founder of American Tower.
- Steven Li
Associate Professor and Alabama Extension specialist in the Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Department at Auburn University's College of Agriculture. Prin...
- Steven N. Bronson
Chairman, President and CEO of Interlink Electronics.
- Steven P. Richman
Chief Executive Officer of Techtronic Industries (TTI) since May 2024. 35+ years in power tool and outdoor power equipment industry; previously president of Mil...
- Steven Rales
Co-founder of Danaher Corporation.
- Steven Simoni
Co-founder and President of Allen Control Systems, an Austin-based defense technology startup building the Bullfrog, an AI-powered autonomous machine gun turret...
- Steven Vondran
President and CEO of American Tower Corporation.
- 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...
- Stewart Burton
CEO and Co-founder of ZeroAlpha Solutions Ltd, leading the company's mission to provide expeditionary energy and C5ISR solutions to UK and European defence mark...
- Stewart Miller
CEO of The National Robotarium (Scottish Robotics).
- Stjohn Youngman
COO of Skyfly Technologies. Drives electrification and propulsion strategy with expertise from McLaren, JLR, and Electroflight. Led multi-million-pound electric...
- Stuart A. Taylor II
Board member of Ball Corporation, the American packaging company known for metal beverage cans.
- 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 R. Bell
14th President of University of Florida.
- Stuart Russell
UC Berkeley professor and co-author of the leading AI textbook; outspoken voice on AI safety with implications for autonomous robots
- Stuart Simpson
President and CEO of THINK Surgical. Leading commercialization of TMINI Miniature Robotic System for orthopedic surgery. 00M investment from KDB Investment.
- Subodh Kulkarni
President and CEO of Rigetti Computing since December 2022. Leads the company's strategy in full-stack quantum-classical computing and government partnerships.
- Sudeep Sarkar
Distinguished University Professor and Launch Dean of the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at USF. NSF CAREER awardee wit...
- Sudhir Gopalswamy
Group President, Intelligent Sensing and Analog and Mixed-Signal Group at onsemi.
- 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.
- Sukrit Gupta
Robot Autonomy Lead & Founding Member at Pace Robotics. TU Delft / BITS Pilani alumni. Heads the Robot Autonomy vertical.
- Sun Kai
Co-founder of Hesai Technology, a leading Chinese LiDAR sensor manufacturer (Nasdaq: HSAI).
- Sun Pishu
Chairman and CEO of Inspur Group, a major Chinese information technology and cloud computing company.
- Sun Qin
President of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), the state-owned enterprise overseeing China's civilian and military nuclear programs.
- Sun Qixin
President of China Agricultural University, a leading agricultural research university in Beijing ranked best in its field as of 2025.
- Sun Yongcai
Party Secretary, Chairman and Executive Director of [CRRC Corporation](/companies/crrc), the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer, and Chairman of CRRC Gr...
- Sung-Sik Yun
Co-founder and CEO of Rebodis, a Seoul-based soft wearable robotics startup spun out of Seoul National University's Biomechatronics Lab. Developing garment-type...
- Sungan Choi
CEO and Vice Chairman of Samsung Heavy Industries.
- Sunil Kant Munjal
Chairman of Hero Enterprise, one of the founding promoters of the Hero Group, India’s leading automotive manufacturing powerhouse. He leads businesses with inte...
- Sunil Kumar
President of Tufts University.
- Suresh Krishna
President and CEO of Protolabs since May 2025. Previously CEO of Northern Tool + Equipment.
- Suresh Sundaram
Professor and head of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRL) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Department of Aerospace Engineering.
- Suryansh Chandra
Co-founder of Automata, the London lab-automation robotics company.
- Susan Ballabina
President of Texas A and M University.
- Susan Graham
Biomedical engineer (University of Oxford); co-founder and CEO of Dendra Systems, the drone-based ecosystem-restoration company.
- Susan Hunt
Chief Revenue Officer of QCi. Founder of Surge Growth Consulting, advising tech CEOs on revenue transformation.
- Susanne Schustin
Chief Technology Officer at CEVA Logistics, a global logistics and supply chain 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.
- Suzanne Smith
Donald and Gertrude Lester Professor and Director of the UK Unmanned Systems Research Consortium (USRC) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin...
- Svein Tore Holsether
President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara International ASA since 2015. Passionate about promoting sustainable agriculture and global food security.
- Sveinn Sölvason
President and CEO of Embla Medical hf (formerly Össur hf), a global leader in non-invasive orthopaedics headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland. Appointed CEO in Ap...
- Svilen Rangelov
Co-founder and CEO of Dronamics. Founded the company with his brother Konstantin in 2014 to build the Black Swan cargo drone.
- Swamy Kotagiri
CEO of Magna International. Strategic investor in automotive/robotics.
- Swapnil Mane
Vice President of Product Management at Celera Motion, a Novanta company. Presented precision motion control solutions at the Robotics Summit & Expo 2025 in Bos...
- T. Ryder Booth
Chief Technology and Engineering Officer at [Chevron](/companies/chevron), a position he has held since June 2025. Responsible for development, scaling, project...
- Tad McGeer
Pioneer in unmanned aerial vehicles. Founder of Aerovironment's UAV program and Insitu (acquired by Boeing).
- Tadashi Saegusa
Second-era founder of [MISUMI Group](/companies/misumi), the Japanese industrial parts supplier and digital procurement platform. Serves as Special Advisor to t...
- Tae-Sik Park
President, Missile System Group at LIG Nex1. Signed MOU with Northrop Grumman at ADEX 2025 to collaborate on enhancing Republic of Korea air and missile defense...
- 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...
- Tahmid Jamal
MIT graduate in AI & Aerospace; co-founder and CTO of Yondu AI, a Y Combinator W24 company building robots to automate fulfillment. Founded Yondu in late 2023 a...
- Taiki Sato
Chief Operating Officer of [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics) since 2017 and a director of the company. Met founder Tetsuya Sawanobori at "Shid...
- Taisuke Kusaba
Executive linked to registry companies.
- 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.
- Takashi Maeno
Professor in the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University. Dean of SDM and former Director of the Biorobotics Laboratory, researching ...
- Takashi Teramachi
President and CEO of THK Co.
- Takaya Soga
President and CEO of NYK Line (Nippon Yusen).
- Takemitsu Takizaki
Japanese billionaire businessman and founder of [Keyence](/companies/keyence), a leading manufacturer of automation sensors, vision systems, barcode readers, la...
- Takis Georgakopoulos
CEO of Fiserv, a global financial technology company.
- Takuya Imayoshi
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Tamara Froese
Chief Supply Chain Officer of Zebra Technologies since November 2022. Oversees global supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics. Over 20 years of ...
- Tami Newcombe
CEO of Ralliant Corporation, a technology company developing autonomous systems and AI solutions.
- Tan Hiang Khoon
CEO of Singapore General Hospital.
- 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.
- Tan Too Ping
Chief Technology Officer at Changi Airport Group, overseeing technology and innovation at Singapore Changi Airport.
- 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...
- Tang Wenbin
Co-founder and former CTO of [Megvii](/companies/megvii), the Beijing-based AI company behind the Face++ computer vision platform. Co-founded Megvii in 2011 wit...
- Tang Yang
Founder and CEO of Shanghai STEP Electric, a Chinese motion control and robotics company.
- Tang Yuxiang
Chairman of Yutong Group.
- Tanja Rückert
Member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH since January 1, 2023. Responsible for digital business and services, including Bosch Digital, IT-system ...
- Tao Chen
MIT CSAIL PhD in EECS whose research on in-hand object reorientation won the CoRL 2021 Best Paper Award and was published in Science Robotics. Previously studie...
- Tao Zhi
Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, leading the Beijing-based hotel service robot company backed by Tencent, Alibaba, and Lenovo.
- Taras Wankewycz
Founder & CEO of H3 Dynamics. 20+ years in the hydrogen sector, leading the company's mission to make hydrogen-electric aviation possible step by step.
- Taro Shimada
CEO of Toshiba Corporation. Replaced Satoshi Tsunakawa as chief executive.
- Tatsufumi Soda
Executive Officer, Executive Vice President of NSK Ltd. Head of Industrial Machinery Business Division HQ and Global Aftermarket Department.
- Tatsuo Odani
Representative Director and President of FamilyMart, a Japanese convenience store chain.
- Tatsuya Shimmura
President and Representative Director of Shimizu Corporation since April 2025.
- Taylan Kargin
Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group.
- Ted Bunker
Co-founder of Crown Castle (1994).
- Ted Hsu
Co-founder of ASUS.
- Ted Mabrey
SVP of Business Development at Boston Dynamics; driving commercial deployment strategy for Atlas and Spot
- 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...
- Tekin Meriçli
Co-founder and CTO of Locomation, a Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking startup. Tekin Meriçli earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi Universit...
- Teo Swee Ann
Founder and CEO of Espressif Systems, an IoT chip company known for ESP32.
- Teresa Dickerson
Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of TE Connectivity since January 2023. Leads long-term strategic planning and near-term business initiatives for p...
- Teri Little
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Applied Materials, Inc. Responsible for all legal affairs and corporate governance worldwi...
- Tero Peltomäki
CEO of Cimcorp from 2021 to 2024. Cimcorp is a Finland-based robotics company specializing in automated order-picking systems for dairy, grocery, and fresh prod...
- Terrence A. Duffy
Chairman and CEO of CME Group, the worlds leading derivatives marketplace.
- Terrence Curtin
Chief Executive Officer of TE Connectivity since 2017, a $17B global industrial technology leader in connectivity and sensor solutions. Previously served as TE'...
- Terrence R. Curtin
Chief Executive Officer of TE Connectivity since March 2017; elected to the Board of Directors in March 2016. Previously served as TE's President, responsible f...
- Terry Crimmins
President of BAE Systems' Electronic Systems sector, leading the division's aerospace and defense electronics business.
- Terry Ma
CEO of Sunseeker Robotics. Led company to CES 2026 Innovation Award for LiDAR Mower S4.
- Terry Rudolph
Co-founder and Chief Architect at [PsiQuantum](/companies/psiquantum). Invented the fusion-based quantum computing approach upon which PsiQuantum's architecture...
- Terry Suh
PhD in EECS from MIT (2024). Former member of MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on differentiable simulators and policy gradients. Received Best Pape...
- Teruo Izawa
President and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions.
- Terushi Shimizu
CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions, specializing in image sensors for cameras and automotive applications.
- Tetsuji Kawamura
President and CEO of Sharp Corporation, effective April 1.
- Tetsuro Hori
President and CEO of JSR Corporation.
- Tetsuya Nakano
President and Representative Director of Keyence since December 22, 2025. Joined the company in 2004.
- Tetsuya Ogata
Professor at the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering at Waseda University. Research focuses on the Frontier of robotics and AI integration, introduced...
- Tetsuya Sawanobori
Founder and CEO of [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics), a Tokyo-based startup building AI-powered cooking robots for restaurants and food factor...
- Thad Trent
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of onsemi since February 2021. Previously served as CFO at Cypress Semiconductor, responsible for strategic...
- Thanuja Ambegoda
Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.
- Theo Albrecht
Co-founder of Aldi Sud.
- 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 ...
- Theodor Stiebel
Founder of Stiebel Eltron, establishing the company in 1924 to produce electric water heaters.
- Théophile Gervet
Former research scientist at Mistral AI. Co-founder of Genesis AI, building physical AI and robotics foundation models.
- Theresa Condor
CEO of Spire Global, a space-based data and analytics company. Assumed role January 2025.
- Therese Hoffman
CFO of Lifco AB, responsible for the Group's financial management and reporting.
- Thibault Boutonnet
Founder and CEO of [SIZA Robotics](/companies/siza-robotics), a French agricultural robotics company he founded in 2020. He leads development of the TOOGO elect...
- Thierry Betbeze
CEO of Dassault Falcon Jet since 2019.
- Thierry Pilenko
Thierry Pilenko serves as Executive Chairman of TechnipFMC, having previously been CEO of Technip SA prior to the merger.
- Thomas Berger
Chair of the Management Board (CEO) of Harmonic Drive SE. Leads the company's strategic direction in precision drive systems and mechatronic solutions.
- Thomas Bock
CEO of Festo.
- Thomas Coesfeld
Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, effective January 2027.
- Thomas DeFrank
Thomas DeFrank is Chief Financial Officer of ENSCO, overseeing corporate finance, accounting, treasury management, and corporate facilities. A Certified Public ...
- Thomas Doherty
Co-founder of Aligned Data Centers (co-founded 2013).
- Thomas Dohmke
Former CEO of GitHub. Stepped down end of 2025. GitHub now part of Microsoft's CoreAI division.
- Thomas Edison
Founder of General Electric.
- Thomas Edison
Founder of General Electric.
- Thomas Embla Bonnerud
CEO of Zivid, succeeding co-founder Henrik Schumann-Olsen. Leading the Norwegian 3D machine vision camera company.
- Thomas G Brown
President and CEO of DataGryd.
- Thomas Götschmann
CEO of Tinamu Labs. Serial entrepreneur and experienced company builder.
- Thomas Gubler
Director of Software at Hexagon Robotics, leading software development for the AEON humanoid platform.
- Thomas Haag
CEO of Harmonic Drive SE; leads the dominant manufacturer of strain wave gears used in nearly every humanoid robot's joints
- Thomas Hahn
CEO of United Robotics Group, a leading European industrial and service robotics company formed from the merger of multiple robotics firms.
- 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 Knudsen
CEO of Blue Ocean Robotics since August 2025. Former CCO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, Teradyne Group). Leading Blue Ocean's strategic focus on the UVD Robo...
- Thomas Laffont
Co-founder of Coatue Management, the technology-focused investment management firm founded in 1999 with his brother Philippe Laffont. Leads Coatue's private equ...
- Thomas Mellon
Founder of Mellon Bank (1869) predecessor of BNY Mellon.
- Thomas Oberholzer
Co-founder and CSO of KEMARO. Relocated to the United States in 2026 to lead KEMARO Inc. North American go-to-market strategy.
- Thomas Shepherd
Chief Operations Officer of [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ai), where he leads global operations as the company develops commercially scalable humanoid robotics...
- Thomas Sugar
ASU robotics professor and founder of SpringActive. Pioneer in wearable robotics and powered prostheses. Also founded the Wearable Robotics Association.
- Thomas Tull
American billionaire businessman, entrepreneur, and film producer. Founder of Legendary Entertainment (2005) and the United States Innovative Technology (USIT) ...
- 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...
- Thomas W Bastian Sr
Founder of Bastian Solutions.
- Thomas West
President and CEO of Intersect ENT.
- Thomas Wolf
French researcher and entrepreneur; co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Holds a Ph.D. in statistical/quantum physics from Sorbo...
- Thorsten Zander
Founder and Chief Science Officer of Zander Labs, a German-Dutch company in passive brain-computer interfaces (pBCI) and neuro-adaptive technology. Introduced t...
- Thuc Vu
CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. Previously founded Katango (acquired by Google) and Tappy (acquired by Weeby.co).
- Tian Wang
Founder and CEO of Ascentiz, pioneering modular exoskeleton technology for everyday and industrial use.
- Tian Yu
Founded Yuneec. Also founded AutoFlight (eVTOL). Backed by Intel investment.
- Tian Yu
Founder & CEO of [AutoFlight](/companies/autoflight), a Shanghai-based eVTOL aircraft developer backed by $100M+ in funding. Previously founded Chinese drone ma...
- Tianhao Zhang
Co-founder of Covariant who remained to lead the company after Amazon hired its other founders in 2024.
- Tianlan Shao
Founder and CEO of Mech-Mind Robotics, developing 3D vision for industrial robots.
- Tibor Fecko
Slovak mechanical engineer who co-invented the TwinSpin® high-precision reduction gear in the early 1990s alongside Bartolomej Janek. Co-founded Spinea s.r.o. i...
- Tim Brackbill
Co-founder of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017), the precision fruit-harvesting robotics company acquired by Oishii.
- Tim Bucher
Co-founder & CEO of Agtonomy, a California-based company developing autonomous software for tractors and farm implements. UC Davis electrical engineering alum (...
- Tim Davis
Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Kionix. Cornell Ph.D. '93 in materials science. Co-founded Kionix in 1993 with Greg Galvin to commercialize MEMS fabri...
- Tim Hollander
President at Toyota Motor Corporation, contributing to autonomous driving and mobility initiatives.
- Tim McLain
Professor & ME Dept Chair. Co-founder MAGICC Lab. UAV guidance, multi-agent coordination.
- Tim Moriarty
Teradyne veteran who succeeded Rob Sullivan as President of AutoGuide Mobile Robots in 2021. Previously president of Nextest Systems (acquired by Teradyne for $...
- Tim Mueller-Sim
Co-founder and CTO of Bloomfield Robotics. Founded at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.
- Tim Schmiedl
Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH.
- Tim Srock
Former CEO of Mendix who set strategic direction for hypergrowth phase. Led the company to surpass $100M ARR before Raymond Kok succeeded him.
- 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...
- Tim Swift
Founder and CEO of Roam Robotics a San Francisco-based company developing low-cost wearable robotic devices for human mobility.
- Tim Swift
Founder of Roam Robotics. Mechanical engineer focused on human-centered robotic applications.
- Timothy Kiser
President and Founder of Colo Atl.
- Timothy M. Archer
President and CEO of Lam Research.
- Timothy N. White
Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology at [Carrier Global](/companies/carrier-global). Over 30 years of experience leading businesses, large-scale deve...
- Ting Ming Ling
CEO of OTSAW Digital, a Singaporean robotics company developing autonomous delivery robots and security drones.
- TJ Pressley
Chief Operating Officer; ex-Knight/Swift, Sharp Transportation.
- Tobia Marcucci
PhD in EECS from MIT. Former member of MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Key contributor to the Shortest-Path Problem in Graphs of Convex Sets (SPP in GCS) fr...
- Tobias Bartz
CEO & Chairman of the Rhenus Group Management Board since April 2022. Previously held various leadership roles within Rhenus. Oversees the family-owned logistic...
- Tobias Meyer
Chief Executive Officer of DHL Group (Deutsche Post AG) since May 2023. Appointed until August 2028.
- Tobias Meyer
CEO of DHL Group.
- Tobias Rietzler
Co-founder and CEO of robominds. Electrical engineer passionate about robotics innovations.
- Todd Hartman
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Risk Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc.
- Todd He
CEO of OMOWAY, a technology company developing autonomous mobility solutions.
- Todd Roberts
CEO and Co-Founder of ATDev (Assistive Technology Development), a Berkeley-born startup creating AI-enabled robotic mobility and rehabilitation devices. Co-foun...
- Todd Wanek
President and CEO of Ashley Furniture Industries.
- Tokuo Kubo
Co-founded Tokyo Electron (then Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.) in November 1963.
- 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 Arseneault
President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc (US subsidiary) since April 2020. Won 2026 Wash100 Award.
- Tom Arseneault
President and Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems, Inc., the U.S.-based international defense, aerospace, and security company with nearly 41,500 employees a...
- Tom Bass
Executive in the robotics industry, linked to registry companies.
- Tom Bell
Chief Executive Officer of [Leidos](/companies/leidos) (NYSE: LDOS) since May 2023, leading the $17 billion defense technology and national security company thr...
- Tom Bianculli
Chief Technology Officer of Zebra Technologies since September 2016. Leads exploration of emerging technologies, product strategy, and investment initiatives. O...
- 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 Enders
Chairman of the Board of Directors of KNDS (since 2025), the Franco-German tankmaker formed by the merger of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter. Served as CEO of ...
- Tom Gallagher
Managing Partner of Anchorstone Advisors.
- Tom Hale
CEO of Oura (smart ring); previously CEO of SurveyMonkey and MeUndies. Not a company founder.
- Tom Hammoor
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Tom Loefler
Co-founder and CEO of Hullbot, the Australian autonomous underwater hull-cleaning robotics company.
- Tom Loverro
General Partner at IVP. Growth stage tech investor.
- Tom McCarthy
Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), a Pasadena space-robotics company specializing in robotic arms, motor controllers, and mechanisms.
- Tom McCulley
Chief Technical Officer at [Anglo American](/companies/anglo-american), appointed May 2025. Leads global technical disciplines from Discovery and Geosciences th...
- Tom Muniz
CTO of Archer Aviation, leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft technology.
- 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 Polen
Chairman and CEO of Becton Dickinson.
- Tom Proulx
Co-founder of Intuit.
- Tom Stepien
CEO of Amprius Technologies since Jan 2026. Silicon anode lithium-ion batteries (SiCore/SiMaxx, up to 450 Wh/kg). Former CEO of South 8 Technologies.
- 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 Van Doren
CTO and VP of Engineering at HDT Global, leading robotics and autonomous systems development.
- Tom Walker
Founder and former CEO of DroneUp, a Virginia Beach-based drone delivery company he founded in 2016 as a U.S. Navy veteran. He led DroneUp to a landmark 2021 ex...
- Tom Walker
Founder and CEO of DroneUp, a drone delivery and inspection company.
- Tom Weichen
Zeitgeist Capital.
- Tom Williams
Chairman and CEO of Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH), the Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. Elected CEO in January 2015 and la...
- Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson is the Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Allstate Corporation. He has been CEO since 2007 and became chair of the board in 2015.
- Tom Wilson
Chair, President and CEO of The Allstate Corporation.
- 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...
- Tomas Sirvio
President and CEO of Valmet.
- 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.
- Tomislav Mihaljevic
CEO of Cleveland Clinic, a leading academic medical center pioneering robotic surgery and medical robotics research.
- Tommaso Lenzi
Associate Professor at University of Utah Robotics Center, Director of the HGN Lab. Research in bionics and prosthetics.
- Tommy Cohn
PhD candidate in EECS at MIT CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group. Research on sampling-based motion planning with discrete configuration-space symmetries.
- Tomo Ohno
Founder of Kudan, a computer vision and SLAM technology company.
- Tomoaki Kobayakawa
President and CEO of [TEPCO](/companies/tepco) (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings) since 2017. The youngest executive to assume the presidency in TEPCO's hi...
- Tomohiro Fukuzawa
Founder and CEO of SkyDrive Inc.
- Tomohiro Uchida
President and CEO of GMO AI & Robotics Corporation and GMO AI & Web3, Inc. Group Senior Managing Executive Officer at GMO Internet Group, Inc.
- Tomohiro Yoshida
President of the Factory Automation Division at Mitsubishi Electric Europe since October 2025. Began his career at the Nagoya plant in 1992 and has held various...
- Tomotaka Takahashi
Founder of Robo Garage and creator of Kirobo, RoBoHoN, and the ROBI humanoid; visiting professor at University of Tokyo
- Tongliang Sun
Executive Director of Robotphoenix. Born 1985.
- Tony Leisher
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of TE Connectivity. Leads the company's global IT organization, responsible for transformative IT initiative...
- Tony Li
Founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics, a leading Chinese service-robotics company based in Shenzhen that develops delivery, cleaning, and medical robots deployed g...
- Tony Maciejewski
Professor, ECE, IEEE Fellow. Kinematically redundant robots, fault-tolerant robotic systems. NSF RED Grant PI.
- 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 Ressler
Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.
- Tony Xu
Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash (founded 2013). Co-founded DoorDash with Stanley Tang and Andy Fang while at Stanford. Holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BS fr...
- Tony Yoseloff
Managing Partner and CIO at Davidson Kempner.
- Tony Z. Zhao
Co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics. Stanford CS PhD dropout (advised by Chelsea Finn), previously worked at Google DeepMind and Tesla Autopilot. Creator of t...
- 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.
- Topher Haddad
Co-founder and CEO of Albedo Space, building very low Earth orbit (VLEO) satellites at 275 km altitude for high-resolution Earth imagery. Co-founded Albedo afte...
- Torben Menke
CFO of MOIA, forms executive board with CEO Sascha Meyer.
- Torsten Dehner
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Fendt/Valtra at AGCO. Leads the Fendt brand.
- Torsten Reil
Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing; previously founded animation-technology company NaturalMotion.
- Torsten Scholl
CEO of TeleRetail.
- Toru Onishi
President and CEO of Japan Post Insurance.
- Tory Bruno
American aerospace engineer and executive. President and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA) from August 2014 to December 2025, where he led development of the ...
- Toshiaki Tokunaga
President and CEO of Hitachi Building Systems.
- Toshiaki Tokunaga
Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO of Hitachi Building Systems.
- Toshiaki Ujiie
President and CEO of Tadano Ltd., leading the world's largest Japan-based crane manufacturer.
- Toshihiro Akiwa
Executive Officer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director of Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
- Toshihiro Mibe
Global CEO of Honda. Leading Honda robotics including Miimo lawn mower and Walking Assist exoskeleton.
- Toshihiro Mibe
President and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Director and Representative Executive Officer. Appointed CEO April 2021.
- Toshihiro Suzuki
President of Suzuki Motor Corporation.
- Toshiki Kawai
President & CEO of Tokyo Electron; leading the company's AI and robotics transformation through the Epsira™ platform and NVIDIA collaboration.
- Toshimi Sato
President and CEO of Obayashi Corporation since April 2025.
- Toshio Hiroe
President and CEO of SCREEN Holdings.
- Toshiyuki Inoko
Founder and CEO of teamLab.
- Toshiyuki Shirai
Representative Director & President of Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Tracy Kelley
President and Chief Science Officer at [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), with the company for 20+ years. Previously served eight years as CEO and five years ...
- Trae Stephens
Co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries and a partner at venture firm Founders Fund; previously at Palantir Technologies.
- Travis Kalanick
American entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Uber (2009-2017); founder and CEO of ATOMS (formerly City Storage Systems / CloudKitchens), an industrial AI...
- Trent D Ambrosio
Founder of BluSky AI.
- Trent D'Ambrosio
CEO and President of BluSky AI Inc. (OTC: BSAI), serving since February 2023. Also CEO and Founder of Digital Asset Medium LLC.
- 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.
- Tuan Dang
Assistant Professor of EECS at UArk; PI of Cognitive Robotics Lab. SLAM, navigation, human cognition-inspired robotics. Papers at ICRA/IROS 2026.
- Tully Foote
Co-created TurtleBot at Willow Garage in 2010. ROS developer and robotics researcher.
- Tung Meng Fai
Executive Director of Singapore's [National Robotics Programme (NRP)](https://nrp.gov.sg), overseeing national robotics and embodied AI R&D funding and ecosyste...
- Tuo Hua
Founder and CEO of ROKAE Robotics. Established the company in 2015 in Beijing, leading its growth from startup to HKEX-listed public company (3752.HK).
- Tuo Shi
Co-Founder and CEO of ZVISION Technologies.
- Tuomas Haarnoja
Co-founder of Eka Robotics. Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he worked on reinforcement learning. PhD from UC Berkeley (2018) on maximum entr...
- Tuomas Lukka
Co-founder of ZenRobotics and software architect behind the ZenRobotics Recycler platform.
- Tushar Dave
Chairman & CEO of FarmX, an agricultural robotics and autonomous navigation company he has led since 2015. Previously founding Chairman & CEO of Enlighted, a se...
- Tushar Gupta
Growth equity at Prysm Capital.
- Tushar Jadhav
Co-Founder and CEO of Manastu Space, an Indian space-tech startup developing green satellite propulsion systems and collision-avoidance technology. An IIT Bomba...
- 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...
- Tye Johnson
CEO of CloudBurst Data Centers and Founder and CEO of Evolve Holdings. Leading next-generation net-zero AI-ready data center development in Central Texas.
- Tyler Bell
Assistant Professor in both the School of Meteorology and School of Aviation at the University of Oklahoma. Co-inventor on the CopterSonde-3D patent for a weath...
- Tyler Bernstein
Co-Founder and CEO of Zeno Power, a company developing radioisotope power systems (RPS) for space and defense applications. Bernstein co-founded Zeno Power in 2...
- Tyler Niday
CEO of Bonsai Robotics, leading the AI-powered agriculture robotics company. Unveiled the Amiga Flex platform at FIRA 2025.
- Tyler Page
CEO of Cipher Digital Inc (formerly Cipher Mining), a developer and operator of industrial-scale data centers for next-generation compute including bitcoin mini...
- Tyler Pierce
Co-founder and CTO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Former consultant at ATA Engineering and engineer at Electroimpact designing aerospace assembly a...
- Tyler S. Ralston
Tyler S. Ralston co-founded Butterfly Network.
- Tyson Johnson
Georgian Partners. Canadian growth equity.
- Tzu-Hsien Tung
Co-founder of ASUS.
- Tzur Di-Cori
Business-oriented executive with proven record of excellence. Served as CEO of Motorika Medical Israel from approximately 2014 to 2017. Later appointed CEO of I...
- Udhay Mathialagan
Udhay Mathialagan serves as Chairman of the Board at Centersquare and CEO of Global Data Centers for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
- Udit Shah
Chief Engineer at Ceres Robotics and lead engineer for the B5 Lunar Lander program. Principal Investigator on a NASA SBIR contract for lunar surface solar power...
- Ufuk Topcu
Professor in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and associate director of Texas Robotics. Leads the Center for Autonomy, developing formal methods ...
- Ugur Oezdemir
Co-founder and CTO of Bonsai Robotics (2022).
- Ulrich Schaffhauser
Member of the Board of Management of Herrenknecht AG since August 2014, responsible for the Business Unit Utility Tunnelling and Business Area Exploration. Join...
- Ulrike Hintze
Executive Board member for HR (CHRO) and Director of Labor Relations of Continental AG since July 1, 2025. Also continues to manage the HR function in the Tires...
- Umesh Vaidya
Professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson. Research in overcoming the curse of dimensionality for autonomous robots.
- Uwe Horstmann
CEO of Stark Defence (appointed October 2025), the Berlin-based strike drone startup that raised EUR500M at a EUR3.5B+ valuation in 2026. Also a founding partne...
- Uwe Lauber
CEO of MAN Energy Solutions (now Everllence).
- V Kamakoti
Director of IIT Madras.
- V. Narayanan
Chairman of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).
- Vagner Rego
President and CEO of [Atlas Copco](/companies/atlas-copco) Group since May 1, 2024. Brazilian citizen, born 1972. Joined Atlas Copco in 1996 as a trainee engine...
- Vaidy Narayanan
Co-Founder of Bionic Yantra, a Bengaluru-based medical robotics company developing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of paralytic patients. Co-founded Bionic Yant...
- Valdis Valeika
Founder and co-owner of Againer Ski.
- Valerie Redron
CEO of Sensonor (Safran subsidiary).
- Valerio Ferme
32nd President of New Mexico State University since January 2025. Leads the state's comprehensive research and land-grant university.
- Valerio Vicari
Panakès Partners. European VC.
- Valery Maltsev
CEO of Rostselmash.
- Vanessa Clark
Co-founded Atomos Space in 2018; led the company as CEO through its first orbital demonstration mission and its acquisition by Katalyst Space Technologies in Ma...
- Vanessa E. Wyche
Director of NASA Johnson Space Center, leading human spaceflight and robotics programs.
- Varun Gupta
Partner at Caffeinated Capital, joined 2020. Generalist investor focused on AI, fintech, biotech, and consumer internet startups at the seed and Series A stages...
- Vatsal Singhal
Co-founder of Ultrahuman; previously co-founded logistics company Runnr / Roadrunnr.
- Vegard Evjen Hovstein
Founder of Maritime Robotics, a Norwegian company developing unmanned surface vessels and aerial drones for maritime applications.
- Venanzio Cichella
Venanzio Cichella is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa and director of the Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) Lab. Th...
- Veronica Pascual Boé
CEO and majority owner of ASTI Mobile Robotics. Acquired the business from her parents in 2008 and grew it to ~$50M revenue before selling to ABB for $190M in 2...
- Veronica Pascual Boé
CEO and majority owner of [ASTI Mobile Robotics Group](/companies/asti-mobile-robotics), a leading global autonomous mobile robot manufacturer headquartered in ...
- Veronika Bienert
CFO of Siemens AG. Member of the Managing Board since 2020.
- Vibhav Altekar
Co-founder and CTO of Saronic; previously an early engineer at Anduril (Royal Australian Navy Ghost Shark) and at Twitter.
- Vicente Reynal
Chairman, President and CEO of Ingersoll Rand.
- Victor Canivell
PhD in Physics and co-founder of [Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech](/companies/qilimanjaro-quantum-tech), a Barcelona-based superconducting flux-qubit quantum computing...
- Victor Dewulf
Co-founder and CEO of Recycleye. Former Goldman Sachs banker, left to pursue AI-powered waste sorting. Imperial College London alumnus.
- Victor Maldonado
Research in UAV/aerial robotics, eVTOL aerodynamics, bio-inspired microfiber coatings for drag reduction; NASA-funded USRC on vectored-thrust ducted-fan eVTOL; ...
- Victor Saeijs
President of LEGO Education, a division of the LEGO Group, leading educational solutions that combine hands-on LEGO bricks with digital tools to teach STEAM sub...
- Vidya Ramnath
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Emerson Electric Co.
- 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.
- Vijay Pradeep
Co-founder and CTO of Anvil Robotics. Stanford University alumnus. Builds the hardware and software platform for physical AI teams.
- Vikas Gupta
Co-founder of Wonder Workshop (Play-i).
- Vikash Mishra
Co-founder and Chairman of Raphe mPhibr. Founded the company with his brother Vivek in 2017. Leads strategy and government relations.
- Vikram Kothari
VP of Manufacturing & Hardware at 1X Technologies; previously led Dragon/Starship/Raptor supply chain at SpaceX and hardware supply chain at Microsoft.
- Vikram Pavate
Serial entrepreneur. Previously co-founded and led Locix, a spatial intelligence company.
- Ville Kyrki
Professor Ville Kyrki leads the Intelligent Robotics group at Aalto University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation in Espoo, Finland, conducti...
- Ville Lehtonen
VP of Product at Realtime Robotics (joined 2024). 17+ years in robotics across Life Sciences, Logistics, and Manufacturing. Previously led product at Pickle Rob...
- Vimal Govind MK
Co-Founder & CEO of Genrobotics Innovations. Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 honoree. Developed Bandicoot, the world's first robotic manhole scavenger, deployed across ...
- Vimal Kapur
Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International.
- Vinay Ravuri
CEO of EdgeQ, a semiconductor company building 5G and AI SoC technology.
- 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...
- Vincent Chong
Vincent Chong is the Group President and CEO of ST Engineering, a Singapore-based multinational technology, defence, and engineering group. He graduated with 1s...
- Vincent Clerc
CEO of A.P. Moller-Maersk.
- Vincent Micheli
Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.
- Vincent Price
10th President of Duke University since 2017. Reappointed to a third term beginning July 2027.
- Vincent Vanhoucke
Machine-learning researcher who founded and led the robotics research effort at Google/Google DeepMind; now a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo.
- Vincent Yiding Song
Co-founder of Waddle Labs, building AI agents that write control code for robots. Harvard College Class of 2028 student studying computer science, mind-brain-be...
- 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.
- Vinod Khosla
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Founded Khosla Ventures 2004. ~$15B AUM. First investor in OpenAI, Impossible Foods. Led Waabi $750M, backed Clair Health, Nomag...
- Vipin Jain
Co-founder and CEO of Blendid, developing autonomous robotic smoothie kiosks. Seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
- Vipul Singh
Co-founder and CEO of Aereo. Also co-founder and elected chairperson of the Drone Federation of India.
- Vish Ananthan
President, Automation and Connected Living (ACL) sector of TE Connectivity. ACL enables connectivity, safety, comfort, energy efficiency, and productivity in Fa...
- Vishal Dugar
CTO and co-founder of Gritt. Robotics and AI expert from CMU Robotics Institute. Previously deployed autonomous trucking fleets and self-piloting aircraft.
- Vivek Jain
Executive Vice President, Global Operations & Technology at Analog Devices, Inc.
- Vivek Mishra
Co-founder and CEO of Raphe mPhibr. Founded the company with his brother Vikash in 2017. Leads product and engineering.
- 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 ...
- Vlad Lebedev
Founder and CEO of Quasi Robotics. Frederick, MD based AMR company for pharmaceutical and biotech facilities.
- Vladan Vuletić
Co-founder and CTO of QuEra. Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT. His research on optical tweezer control of atom arrays is foundational to QuEra's platfor...
- Vladyslav Belbas
Director General (CEO) of Ukrainian Armor LLC, Ukraine's largest private defense company. Leads production of armored vehicles, mortar systems, drones, unmanned...
- Volker Bartenbach
Co-founder of Auxivo AG, ETH Zurich exoskeleton researcher. Started working on exoskeleton technology in 2017 before founding Auxivo in 2019.
- 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...
- Wade Rousse
President of the Louisiana State University System, selected by the LSU Board of Supervisors. Took office January 2026.
- Wael Sawan
CEO of Shell plc since January 2023.
- Waleed Haddad
Co-founder and CTO of BurnBot, the wildfire-prevention robotics company behind the RX prescribed-burn machine.
- Wallace Calvin Abbott
Founder of Abbott Laboratories.
- Wallace Calvin Abbott
Founder of Abbott Laboratories.
- Wally Zheng (Zheng Weifeng)
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Walter A. Anderson
Co-founder of White Castle in 1921. A cook who had been running food stands in Wichita since 1916, he partnered with Billy Ingram to create the White Castle cha...
- Walter Boveri
Co-founder of ABB (originally Brown Boveri & Cie), the Swiss-Swedish electrical equipment and robotics multinational.
- Walter Boveri
Co-founder of ABB (Brown Boveri and Cie).
- Wan Biao
Global CEO of Envision AESC, a battery technology company. Former Huawei and Honor executive.
- Wan Jun
CEO of DeepWay, a Chinese autonomous trucking company developing electric and autonomous freight vehicles.
- Wan Lin
Chief Executive Officer and Director of [Cainiao Network](/companies/cainiao-network), Alibaba Group's smart logistics arm, and an Alibaba Partner. Joined Caini...
- Wan Min
Executive at COSCO Shipping Holdings, one of China largest shipping and logistics companies.
- Wang Chuanfu
Chinese chemist and billionaire entrepreneur (b. 1966, Wuwei County, Anhui). Founder, Chairman and CEO of BYD Company Limited, which he established in February ...
- Wang Chuanfu
Founder of BYD.
- Wang Cong
Chief Executive Officer of [D-Robotics](/companies/d-robotics) (also known as Digua Robotics / 地瓜机器人), the robotics development infrastructure company spun off ...
- Wang Cong
CEO of Digua Robotics (Sweet Potato Robotics).
- Wang Donglin
Professor and Chair of Westlake University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Founder of Westlake Robotics.
- Wang Dongsheng
Founder of BOE Technology Group in 1993. Previously led the transformation of Beijing Electron Tube Factory into the world's largest display manufacturer.
- 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 Guangya
Chairman of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAIG), a subsidiary of AVIC. Oversees China's leading combat aircraft and UAV manufacturer.
- 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 Hongtao
CEO of MirrorMe Technology.
- Wang Huai
Linear Capital. Chinese AI/data focused VC.
- 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 Jian
Founder of Sinovation Medical, a Chinese medical device and robotics company.
- Wang Jianchen
Founder and CEO of Edge Medical Robotics. Leading industrialization of high-end surgical robotics in China.
- Wang Kun
Co-founder and COO of QCraft.
- Wang Qian (王潜)
Founder and CEO of [X Square Robot (自变量机器人)](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/x-square-robot), a Shenzhen-based embodied AI company founded in December ...
- Wang Qingjiang
President of Heli America Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Anhui Heli Co., Ltd. — China's largest forklift manufacturer. Leads North American sales, distribution, a...
- Wang Qining
Director of Peking University Center for Robotics.
- Wang Tian
Founder and CEO of RoboCT (Hangzhou RoboCT Technology Development Co., Ltd.), a Chinese exoskeleton robotics company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Hangzh...
- Wang Tianmiao (王田苗)
Professor at Beihang University (北京航空航天大学) and pioneer of medical robotics in China. Born 1960, he began building a medical robotics research team at Beihang in...
- Wang Wei
Founder (1993), Chairman & CEO of SF Holding. Billionaire.
- Wang Xiaoqiu
Chairman of SAIC Motor.
- Wang Xing
CEO of Meituan. Meituan led Even Realities $150M Pre-B round.
- Wang Xingxing
Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics (founded 2016), the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker.
- Wang Ye
Co-founder of Segway-Ninebot. Also listed as CEO per Wikipedia.
- Wang Yizhou (王益舟)
CTO of Infiforce. Leads the full-stack AI Infra system, bringing autonomous driving data engineering methodology into embodied intelligence. Manages data collec...
- Wang Yongkun
Co-founder and CEO of Standard Robots (founded 2016). Started the company with four alumni from Harbin Institute of Technology in a 12sqm space in the HIT Entre...
- Wang Yuwen
Chairman and Executive Director of Shenzhen Investment Holdings.
- Wang Zai
Co-founder of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon), spun out from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Cambricon project in 2016. Remains active at the com...
- Warren A Bechtel
Founder of Bechtel Corporation.
- Warren A Bechtel
Founder of Bechtel Corporation.
- Warren Buffett
American investor and philanthropist, chairman and former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Born August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett is widely considered one o...
- Warren Weissbluth
Co-founder and COO of Voltair. Studied Operations Research engineering at Rice University. Previously worked for two NSF-funded startups, where he helped raise ...
- Wason Lan
Founder and CEO of Eacon Mining Technology, a mining automation company.
- Waterman Cao
President and CEO of AUBO Robotics USA, the North American subsidiary. MIT Sloan School of Management alumnus with 20+ years in global consumer goods, sourcing,...
- Wayne Hsieh
Co-founder of ASUS.
- Wei Ding
Co-founder & CEO of Noble Machines. Former engineer from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech. Founded Noble Machines in 2024 to build general-purpose humanoid robo...
- Wei Feng
Chinese business executive who served as Chief Financial Officer of NIO Inc. from approximately 2019 until his resignation on July 5, 2024, for personal and fam...
- 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...
- Wei Junhao
Founder and CEO of LimX Dynamics; building biped and wheeled-legged robots with advanced locomotion for real-world terrain
- Wei Junqing
CEO of KargoBot, formerly led DiDi autonomous driving freight business. 15+ years in self-driving technology development.
- Wei Sui
Vice President of Technology (also cited as VP of Algorithms) at [D-Robotics](/companies/d-robotics). Featured alongside CEO Wang Cong on The Alphaist podcast f...
- Wei Sun
Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Director of the Safe and resiLient Autonomous decision-...
- Wei Wang
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison, Director of the Marine Robotics Lab. Research in designing marine robotic systems.
- Wei-Chung Wang
Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Operations at onsemi.
- Weihua Sheng
Professor of ECE at OSU; Director of ASCC Lab. Social robots, wearable computing, HRI. 200+ papers.
- Weisong Shi
Weisong Shi is a professor of computer science at Wayne State University and director of the Connected and Autonomous Driving Laboratory (CAR Lab), focused on e...
- Wenchao Zhou
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UArk; Director of AM3 Lab. Swarm robotics, swarm manufacturing, cooperative 3D printing.
- Wendell P. Weeks
CEO of Corning Incorporated since 2005.
- Wendy Hensel
President of University of Hawaii since January 2025.
- Wendy Mao
CEO of Noblelift, a material handling equipment manufacturer.
- 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...
- Wenyan Jiang
Wenyan Jiang founded Yuneec International in 1999 in Hong Kong and established ATL Global Holding AG as its Swiss parent company; she serves as founder and chai...
- Werner Hoyer
President of European Investment Bank. EU government investor.
- Werner Kraus
Head of the Automation and Robotics Research Unit at Fraunhofer IPA. General Chair of the European Robotics Forum 2025.
- Wes Cummins
Chairman and CEO of Applied Digital Corporation, co-founder of the company.
- Wes Swenson
Founder and CEO of C7 Data Centers.
- 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 Graylin
CEO of indiGO Technologies, a technology company developing autonomous driving and smart mobility solutions.
- 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 Lee
Chief Executive Officer of Renishaw plc. Appointed CEO in February 2018. Sir David McMurtry remains as Executive Chairman.
- Will Marshall
Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs.
- Will Marshall
Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs.
- Will O'Brien
Co-Founder and President of Ulysses, building autonomous low-cost robots for the ocean. Previously worked on Formula 1 cars, satellites, space lasers, and self-...
- Will Stengel
Chairman and CEO of Genuine Parts Company.
- Will Wang
Founder of Even Realities, a technology company developing AI-powered wearable devices and smart glasses.
- 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...
- William Besserdich
Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation (originally Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company) in 1917. Patented the four-wheel drive system and automatic locking differential.
- William Boeing
American aviation pioneer (1881–1956) who founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, renamed [Boeing](/companies/boeing) a year later. He designed and flew t...
- William C Durant
Founder of General Motors.
- William Cho
CEO of LG Electronics, leading the South Korean electronics and appliance company.
- William Colgate
Founder of Colgate-Palmolive.
- William E Boeing
Founder of Boeing.
- William E Boeing
Founder of Boeing.
- William F. Tate IV
22nd President of Rutgers University, assumed office July 1, 2025. Former president of Louisiana State University.
- William G Fargo
Co-founder of American Express.
- William Huang
William Huang founded GDS Holdings in 2001 and led its growth into China's largest data center operator, listed on NASDAQ (GDS).
- William J. Chorkey
William J. Chorkey co-founded ACE Controls in 1963 with Alice Chorkey; the company introduced the first adjustable industrial shock absorber and became an inter...
- William Kowalski
Co-founded Atomos Space in 2018 as COO, overseeing in-house spacecraft development. Drove the rapid internal build-out of the Quark and Gluon spacecraft from id...
- William Lee
CEO of Renishaw.
- William Li
Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of NIO Inc. (NYSE: NIO), a smart electric vehicle company headquartered in Shanghai, which he co-founded in November 201...
- William Lower
Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.
- William O'Halloran
Founder of Square Robot and former Director of User Experience at Bluefin Robotics, where he oversaw all trials, testing, and operations. Founded Square Robot i...
- William P Foley II
Chairman of Fidelity National Financial.
- William P. (Bill) Boltz
Executive Vice President, Merchandising at Lowe's Companies, Inc., responsible for the company's merchandising strategy and product assortment. Joined Lowe's in...
- William Schrader
CEO of ByteGrid. Co-founder and former CEO of PSINet Inc. Over 25 years as Chairman and CEO leading private to public companies, from startup to 16 billion in r...
- William Stromberg
CEO of T. Rowe Price. 9 robotics/physical AI participations.
- William Theron
Founder and CEO of Deep Atomic, a nuclear SMR developer for data centers.
- William Wallace Cargill
Founder of Cargill.
- Willis Carrier
Inventor of modern air conditioning (1902) and founder of Carrier Global Corporation. Pioneered humidity control and air conditioning systems that enabled moder...
- Wolfgang Egger
Chief Design Officer (Global Director of Design) at BYD Auto since 2017. Formerly Head of Design at Alfa Romeo, SEAT, Lancia, and Audi Group (including Lamborgh...
- Wolfgang Porsche
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche AG. Member of the Porsche-Piëch family.
- 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 ...
- Wouter Valk
Managing Director of Codian Robotics after its acquisition by ABB/B&R in 2020. Oversees the delta robot mechanics portfolio within the B&R Machine-Centric Robot...
- Wu Bo
Founder and Chairman of Estun Automation (1993). Built Estun into China's largest domestic industrial robot manufacturer, ranked 6th globally by robot revenue. ...
- Wu Changzheng
Founder of MagicLab, a Chinese technology company developing consumer electronics and robotics.
- Wu Xibin
CEO of Foton Motor.
- Xavier Chereau
Chief Human Resources Officer of Stellantis N.V., leading the Human Resources function. Member of the Stellantis Leadership Team.
- Xavier Orr
CEO & Co-founder of Advanced Navigation. Founded the Sydney-based AI navigation company in 2011 with Chris Shaw to commercialize university thesis on AI-based i...
- Xia Tian (夏炎)
Co-founder and CTO of White Rhino (白犀牛), a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in April 2019. Xia Tian is a former member of Baidu's auton...
- Xia Xianqing
General Manager and CEO of GAC Group since November 2025.
- Xia Zuoquan
Non-executive director of UBTECH Robotics and an early angel investor in the company.
- Xiang Shaoqing
Co-founder of Hesai Technology, a leading Chinese LiDAR sensor manufacturer (Nasdaq: HSAI).
- Xiang Xingchu
Chairman and General Manager of JAC Motors.
- 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...
- Xiao Xue
Chairman of Inspur Cloud Information Technology.
- Xiaobo Tan
Professor at Michigan State University Robotics and Control. Gave keynote at 2025 IEEE Systems Conference on underwater robotics systems for Great Lakes monitor...
- Xiaolong Liu
Formerly Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins LCSR; research in medical robotics, soft robotics, and computer-assisted surgery; PI on NSF EAGER awards for magnet...
- Xingxing Wang
Founded Unitree Robotics, leading it to global leadership in quadrupedal and humanoid robots with .7B valuation.
- Xiong Rong
Chief Scientist and General Manager of Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Professor at Zhejiang University with 25 years of experience in intelligent ro...
- 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...
- Xiqing Jia
Founder and CEO of ZeroErr.
- Xu Bin
General Manager of the National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center (also known as the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center), China's fir...
- Xu Bo
Director of Institute of Automation CAS.
- Xu Huazhe
Co-founder and co-chief science officer of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 32. Leads the AI model ...
- Xu Lingjie
Co-founder and former president of [Biren Technology](/companies/biren-technology). Previously led GPU architecture teams at NVIDIA, AMD, and Samsung's North Am...
- Xu Wenda
Carnegie Mellon robotics PhD who pioneered the world's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing. Leads technical R&D at Anyverse Dynamics.
- Xu Zhigen
Founder of NineRay Technology. Leading NineRay's Hong Kong-based globalization strategy with plans for HKEX listing.
- Xu Zhisheng
Founder and CEO of XPENG Robotics; developing Iron, a humanoid robot for manufacturing and home use
- Xuesu Xiao
Assistant Professor at GMU, director of the RobotiXX Lab. Research in robot autonomy and navigation.
- Yael Fainaro
President and Chief Business Officer of RGo Robotics. Joined to lead business development and corporate strategy.
- Yaerid Jacob
Founder and CEO of Blueprint Data Centers. Also linked to BPP Projects LLC, a data center development company.
- Yaerid Jacob
Founder and CEO of Blueprint Data Centers.
- Yaguang Xin
Chief Financial Officer of Robotphoenix. Born 1984.
- Yahya Zweiri
Professor at Khalifa University, Director of the KU Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS) and Director of ARIC. Over 25 years of experience in robotics...
- Yair Shahar
Co-founder and COO of Bluewhite. Leads operations and business development for the autonomous tractor retrofit platform.
- Yam Geva
CTO of RoboTiCan, leading the company's autonomous robotics and AI perception development.
- Yam Kum Weng
CEO of Changi Airport Group, appointed 2024. Previously led airport operations and infrastructure development.
- Yan Honcharov
Former CEO of Ukrainian Armor LLC. Led the company during its expansion of body armor production, including development of the first anatomically-designed body ...
- Yang Anguo
Chairman and General Manager of Anhui Forklift Group, and Chairman of Anhui Heli Co., Ltd. Led the company's transformation into intelligent manufacturing and A...
- Yang Changli
Chairman of China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), a major state-owned nuclear energy company.
- Yang Dongsheng
Chairman of XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery.
- Yang Huanming
Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999. Geneticist who led China's participation in the Human Genome Project.
- 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 ...
- Yang Longsheng
CEO of INMO, a Chinese technology company developing AR glasses and wearable computing devices.
- Yang Mu
Co-founder of [Megvii](/companies/megvii), the Beijing-based AI company behind the Face++ computer vision platform. Co-founded Megvii in 2011 with Tsinghua Univ...
- Yang Qing
Chairman of Dongfeng Motor Group, a major Chinese automotive manufacturer.
- Yang Wei
Founder and CEO of Quicktron Robotics, a mobile robotics company.
- Yang Xiao
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. Director of the Secure Decentralized Systems Lab (SDSL). NSF CAREER Awa...
- 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.
- Yann LeCun
Turing Award-winning French-American computer scientist, inventor of convolutional neural networks, and Chief AI Scientist at [Meta](/companies/meta-platforms)....
- Yannick Fierling
President and CEO of Electrolux Group, effective January 1, 2025. French citizen with 20+ years in the household appliances industry. Previously CEO Europe for ...
- Yariv Bash
Co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, pioneering FAA-approved backyard drone delivery. Previously founded Flytrex in 2013.
- 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.
- Yaser Fallah
NSF CAREER Award winner (2015); 140+ publications on cooperative AI for automated driving, V2X communication, and intelligent transportation; funded by NSF, For...
- Yaser Maddahi
CEO of Tactile Robotics, a company developing haptic and tactile sensing technology for robotic applications.
- Yashi Pushp
Co-founder of Airbound.
- Yassine Tahi
CEO of Kinetix AI.
- Yasuaki Mori
Executive Consultant for APAC market development at RGo Robotics. Supports the company's expansion across the Asia-Pacific region.
- Yasuhiko Hashimoto
President and CEO of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the parent company of Kawasaki Robotics.
- Yasuo Takeuchi
President and CEO of Olympus (Medical division).
- Yasuyuki Higuchi
Former President and CEO of Panasonic Connect.
- Yataro Iwasaki
Founder of Mitsubishi.
- Ye Mao
General Manager and Director of Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd. Leading the company's strategic layout and technological accumulation in intelligent applications...
- Ye Tian
CEO of RoboScience.
- Yelin Jiang
CEO of Hytera Communications.
- Yeonbaek Lee
CEO of WIRobotics, a South Korean robotics company developing wearable assistive robots and exoskeletons for mobility enhancement.
- Yi Cui
Founder of Amprius Technologies.
- Yibiao Zhao
Co-founder and CEO of ISEE AI, an MIT spinout building autonomous yard trucks for logistics operations. Earned a PhD in computer vision from UCLA (2011–2015), t...
- Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Professor, ME. Dynamic systems, control, biomechanics, robotics. Leads Systems Lab. MoRIS modular inspection robots for aerospace.
- Yin Peng (尹鹏)
Co-founder of Guangzhou Shipeng Technology (SEEPPO). PhD and expert in motion intent recognition with 9 years of exoskeleton R&D experience. Named leading talen...
- Yin Qi
Co-founded Megvii in 2011 with Tsinghua classmates Tang Wenbin and Yang Mu. A Tsinghua Yao Class graduate and former Microsoft Research Asia intern, Yin led Meg...
- Yin Rongzao
Former actual controller, chairman, and general manager of Borunte Robot. Directly held 21.65% of shares; controlled 39.66% via Rongzao No. 1 fund. Dismissed af...
- Yin Tongyue
Executive at Chery Robotics, the robotics division of Chinese automaker Chery Automobile.
- Yin Ye
CEO of BGI Group.
- Ying Jianren
Founder of Zotye Auto in 2005; established the company under Zotye Holding Group to produce automobiles for the Chinese market.
- Yingcai Bi
Founder of Gausium (formerly known as Gaussian Robotics). AI-powered autonomous cleaning solutions. 6500+ customers in 70+ countries.
- Yingzhe Ding
Co-founder and former President of Baicells Technologies, a Beijing-based telecoms equipment firm founded in 2014 that supplies 4G/5G base stations and routers ...
- 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.
- Yoav Zeif
CEO of Stratasys.
- Yogesh Kulkarni
Co-CEO of antuit.ai, now VP at Zebra Technologies following acquisition. AI-powered merchandising and planning solutions.
- Yoichi Takamoto
Founder, president, and CEO of tmsuk (established January 2000), a Japanese service-robotics company building practical robots for healthcare, rescue, construct...
- Yoji Kuroda
Co-founder of SEQSENSE and Professor at Meiji University's School of Science and Technology. His research in autonomous robot technology formed the scientific f...
- Yoko Fujita
President of Yokogawa Test and Measurement Corporation.
- Yong Shin Leong
Co-founder and CTO of Augmentus, developing no-code robot programming platforms.
- 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.
- Yoshihito Takashima
CTO of [Tier IV](/companies/tier-iv), the Japanese autonomous driving company that created Autoware, the world's leading open-source autonomous driving software...
- Yoshikazu Nunokawa
Chairman of Tokyo Electron.
- Yoshiki Takada
President and CEO of SMC Corporation.
- Yoshimitsu Goto
Senior Vice President, CFO & CISO of SoftBank Group Corp.; Head of Finance Unit and Head of Administration Unit. Board Director.
- Yoshimitsu Kobayashi
Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO). Oversees governance and strategic direction of Japan's largest electric utility.
- Yoshimoto Matsuda
Executive linked to registry companies.
- Yoshisuke Aikawa
Founder of Nissan Motor.
- 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.
- Yotam Drechsler
Co-founder and CEO of BrainQ Technologies.
- You Wei
Chairman and General Manager of EFORT Intelligent Equipment.
- Youjun Xiong
Co-founder and CEO of Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.
- Younbaek Lee
Co-CEO of WIRobotics, building the ALLEX humanoid robot platform in Seoul. Leading the company's physical AI development ecosystem.
- Young Hyun Jun
Vice Chairman and Co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, serving as Head of the Device Solutions (DS) Division since July 2026. Holds diverse experience covering both D...
- Young-Jin Kim
Founder and CEO of Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand and gripper company established in 2019. Former Samsung Electronics C-Lab alumni.
- Youngchul Oh
CTO of Autonomous A2Z. Leads the company's autonomous driving technology development.
- Youngwoo Seo
Executive Vice President leading Hanwha Aerospace's defense robotics and autonomous systems development, including the Arion-SMET UGV program.
- Youssef Benmokhtar
CEO of GelSight.
- Youssef Saleh
Co-founder and CEO of Ava Robotics (founded 2016); previously SVP and GM of the Remote Presence Business Unit at iRobot, and VP/GM of Telepresence & Vertical So...
- 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 Chao
Tsinghua University graduate and former head of Dreame Technology's humanoid robot business. Founded LUMOS Robotics in 2024.
- 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 Jun
Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999 to participate in the Human Genome Project.
- 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 Qian (James Yu)
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of [QCraft](/companies/qcraft), a Beijing-based autonomous driving company building L4 autonomous vehicle technology. A world-renow...
- Yu Qu
Chief Financial Officer of NIO Inc. (also known as Stanley Yu Qu) since July 2024, promoted from Senior Vice President of Finance. Joined NIO in October 2016. P...
- Yu Shaojie
CEO Horizon Robotics. Chinese autonomous driving.
- Yu Sun
Research focuses on robotic grasping and manipulation, haptics, deep learning, and assistive robotics for aging populations; founded the IEEE RAS Technical Comm...
- Yu Tao
Former Luckin Coffee team member responsible for chain training systems and large-scale regional store operations.
- Yu Weiping
Vice President of CRRC Corporation Limited, the world's largest rolling stock manufacturer. Born 1966, holds a doctoral degree and is a senior engineer. Previou...
- Yu Yamaguchi
CTO of Turing. Former researcher at AIST and visiting researcher at NIST. Led Japanese Go AI project with parallel distributed RL across 1,100 GPUs. Co-founded ...
- Yu Yunbo
Founder and CEO of Kenqing Technology (founded 2015). Born 1973, holds a Master of Engineering from HUST (1997) and is a Senior Engineer. Previously co-founded ...
- Yuan Xing Lee
Chief Technology Officer at Broadcom, the semiconductor and infrastructure software company.
- Yuanbo She
Founder, CEO, and robot system architect at AICRobo.
- Yuanqing Yang
Chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group.
- 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...
- Yuichi Kitao
President and CEO of Kubota Corporation.
- Yuke Zhu
UT Austin professor and co-founder of GEAR Lab; leading researcher in robot learning, manipulation, and open-source robotics tools
- Yuki Kusumi
Yuki Kusumi has served as President and CEO of Panasonic Holdings since April 2021, overseeing the company's restructuring into a holding company structure and ...
- Yuling Ma
Chief Technology Officer of Bitdeer Technologies Group since January 2025. A seasoned technology executive with extensive international experience: previously C...
- YuMing Zhang
James R. Boyd Professor and IEEE Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Affiliated with the Center for R...
- Yunhui Liu
Co-founder and Chairman of VisionNav Robotics. Founded the company in 2016.
- Yunyi Jia
Director of the Collaborative Robotics and Automation (CRA) Lab at Clemson. McQueen Quattlebaum Professor, joined Clemson 2016.
- Yuping Huang
CEO and Chairman of QCi. Founded QPhoton; professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Led ~0M in quantum research funding from DARPA, NSF, DoD, NASA.
- Yusaku Maezawa
Japanese entrepreneur and investor (founder of Zozo); led GITAI Series B Extension via his personal venture fund.
- Yushan Chen
CEO and co-founder of Artly Coffee, PhD in computer science from Boston University. Developing AI-powered robotic barista kiosks.
- Yuval Bachar
Founder and CEO of ECL (EdgeCloudLink), a hydrogen-powered modular data center company.
- Yuzhe Qin
Co-founder and CTO of Dexmate, a Santa Clara robotics startup building general-purpose mobile robots with dexterous hands. UC San Diego PhD in robotics speciali...
- Zach Dell
Co-founder and CEO of Base Power, a home battery and VPP startup. Son of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell. Founded Base Power in 2023.
- Zach Hunt
Team member at Norbert Health, a physical AI company developing autonomous robotic nursing assistants for healthcare facilities.
- Zach Poirier
President & CEO of Nanotec Electronic U.S. Inc., the North American subsidiary of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG. Experienced executive with over 25 years of ...
- Zach Shore
CEO of Hermeus, the Atlanta-based high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft manufacturer. Joined Hermeus as Chief Revenue Officer, became President, then was named CEO ...
- Zach Zeliff
Co-Founder and Chief Product Solutions officer at Glydways, the South San Francisco-based personal rapid transit company developing on-demand autonomous transit...
- Zachary Bogue
Co-founder of DCVC. Deep tech and AI focused.
- Zachary Bradford
Co-founder and former CEO of CleanSpark (CLSK), America's largest publicly-traded Bitcoin miner by hashrate. Led CleanSpark from 2019 until his resignation in A...
- Zachary Bradley
Co-founder of CleanSpark.
- Zaki Hussein
Founder and CEO of Touchlab. PhD in intelligent sensing and measurement from Edinburgh University. Bootstrapped the company before securing venture funding.
- Zeb Evans
Entrepreneur and founder in the technology sector, linked to registry companies.
- Zekai Akbay
Chief Safety Officer at Tensor Auto, overseeing safety case development and regulatory compliance for the Tensor Robocar.
- Zen Gu
Co-founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence; building the GR-1 and GR-2 general-purpose humanoid robots for rehabilitation
- Zhan Chunxin
Chairman and CEO of Zoomlion.
- Zhang Aimin
Head of Robotics R&D at GAC Group, leading the in-house development of the GoMate humanoid robot series. Led GAC's launch of GoMate (December 2024), the company...
- 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 Dezhao
CEO of iDriverPlus.
- Zhang Fan
Founding partner Matrix Partners China. 6 robotics participations.
- Zhang Hui
General Manager of Origin Quantum and Prof. Guo Guoping's first PhD student. Leads the company's commercial operations and quantum computing deployment strategy...
- Zhang Jianfeng
Dean of Alibaba DAMO Academy. Previously CTO of Alibaba Group.
- Zhang Jianzhong
Founder, Chairman and CEO of [Moore Threads](/companies/moore-threads). Spent 14 years at [NVIDIA](/companies/nvidia) as global vice president and general manag...
- Zhang Jie
Chairman and General Manager of Shenzhen HOBBYWING Technology Co., Ltd. Leading the world's top brand of brushless power systems for UAV propulsion and RC appli...
- 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 Kai
Former Great Wall Motor executive who served as Chairman of Haomo.AI, an autonomous driving technology company spun out of Great Wall Motor in 2019.
- Zhang Lei
Founder of Hillhouse (GL Ventures). Long-term value investing.
- Zhang Miao
Executive at CASBOT, contributing to the development of humanoid robot platforms.
- Zhang Peng
Co-founder of Zhipingfang (AI2 Robotics), demonstrated the AIBO robot at the 2025 Mass Innovation Heroes Gathering.
- 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 Songgen
Chairman and founder of Beijing TINAVI Medical Technologies Co., Ltd. Pioneer of medical robots in China, serving orthopedic robotic surgery since 2005. Nominat...
- Zhang Tao
Director of Tsinghua University's automation department. Leading the new Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics.
- Zhang Wen
Founder, Chairman and CEO of [Biren Technology](/companies/biren-technology). Former president at [SenseTime](/companies/sensetime) (2018–2019), where he led th...
- Zhang Yanliang
Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Weston Robot. Singapore-based deep tech robotics entrepreneur.
- Zhang Yingdai
Chairman of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).
- Zhang Yubo
Co-founder and CTO of [Moore Threads](/companies/moore-threads), the Chinese GPU design company founded in October 2020 in Beijing. Co-founded the company with ...
- Zhang Yue
CEO of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited (Brilliance Auto Group), appointed 2024.
- Zhang Yufeng
Former VP and President of the Automotive Business Unit at Horizon Robotics, where he led the intelligent driving business to No. 1 market share for domestic AD...
- Zhang Zhengtao
Founder of CASBOT, a Chinese robotics company developing humanoid robots.
- Zhang Zhongxiang
CEO of Litra, a technology company providing industrial IoT and robotics solutions.
- 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 Haijun
Co-CEO of SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation).
- Zhao Hang
Co-founder and co-chief science officer of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 34. Works on the propri...
- Zhao Jianjun
Co-founder of TP-Link Technologies.
- Zhao Ming
Founder and CEO of YOGO Robot. Established the company in 2016 in Shanghai, focusing on autonomous service and delivery robots for commercial indoor environment...
- Zhao Wei
CEO and founder of Knownsec (Beijing Knownsec Information Technology Co., Ltd.). Founded the company in 2007. Co-authored a book on cyberspace mapping technolog...
- Zhao Yue
Founder and CEO of SEER Robotics. Admitted to the mixed class of Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.
- Zhaohua Chang
CEO of MicroPort Scientific Corporation, a Chinese medical device company developing robotic surgical systems.
- Zhaojian Li
Professor at Michigan State University, co-founder of AgriDynamics Robotics. 2026 Innovation of the Year awardee at MSU.
- 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.
- Zhaoxi Chen
NTU Singapore alumnus and co-founder of Ropedia, leading the company as CEO.
- Zheng Chen
NSF CAREER Award recipient (2017) for artificial muscle technology in prostheses; research on ionic polymer-metal composites, bio-inspired robotic fish, and sma...
- Zheng Dong
Zheng Dong is an assistant professor of computer science at Wayne State University, awarded a five-year $595,611 NSF CAREER grant for the ChronosDrive project e...
- Zheng Wang
Founder and CEO of Wisson Robotics.
- Zhi Tao
Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, Chinese hotel service robotics company. IPO'd on HKEX.
- Zhihua Qu
Research in multi-agent control and optimization for autonomous vehicular systems; develops theoretical foundations for multiple robots and autonomous vehicles ...
- Zhiyuan Dou
General Manager of the Jupiter Business Unit and Executive Director. Born 1989.
- Zhou Guyue
Zhou Guyue is Founder at DISCOVER Robotics; co-founder of DISCOVER Robotics.
- 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 Jun
Deputy General Manager of Anhui Forklift Group and General Manager of Anhui Heli Co., Ltd. Led the TIANSHU AI Laboratory joint innovation initiative.
- Zhou Xian
PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Co-founder and CEO of Genesis AI, building universal robotics foundation models.
- Zhou Xinhuai
CEO of CNOOC Limited, China's largest offshore oil and gas producer.
- Zhou Yushu
Chinese researcher and venture capitalist with a PhD from Stanford University in human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. Partner at Zhenzhi Venture...
- Zhu Hong
Zhu Hong is the co-founder and CEO of Enabot, a Shenzhen-based family companion robotics company she founded in 2018. With an engineering background and prior e...
- Zhu Huarong
Chairman of Changan Automobile, a major Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturer. Appointed legal representative and chairman by SASAC.
- Zhu Jing
Founder and Chairman of Haima Automobile Group, serving as Chairman since June 2019 and originally as Chairman from 1998 to 2013. He established Haima Automobil...
- Zhu Lei (朱磊)
Co-founder & CEO of [White Rhino](/companies/white-rhino), a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in April 2019. Zhu Lei is a former member...
- Zhu Linan
Legend Capital. Lenovo-affiliated VC.
- Zhu Qiuguo
Founded DEEP Robotics in Hangzhou in 2017. Specializes in quadruped robot systems for industrial applications.
- Zhu Shiqiang
Director of Zhejiang University Robotics Lab.
- Zhu Xingming
CEO of Inovance Technology, a Chinese industrial automation company providing motion control, drives, and robotics solutions.
- Zhu Xiuming
Founder and CEO of Deep Robotics; creator of the Jueying quadruped and Lynx humanoid platforms for industrial inspection
- Zhu Yiming
CEO of CXMT, a Chinese semiconductor company providing memory solutions for computing and AI applications.
- Zichao Zhang
Executive Vice President and Executive Director of Robotphoenix. Born 1987.
- Ziv Kuniz
Co-CEO and CTO of MediTouch, an Israeli rehabilitation technology company he co-founded in October 2004 with Giora Ein-Zvi and Avraham Cohen. With 20+ years in ...
- Ziv Leitman
Executive at Autobrains Technologies, bringing machine learning and AI expertise to autonomous driving.
- Ziwei Liu
Associate Professor at NTU Singapore and co-founder of Ropedia, serving as Chief Scientist.
- Ziyu Shen
Co-Founder and CEO of ECARX. Automotive technology entrepreneur who co-founded ECARX in 2017 with Eric Li (Li Shufu) to create full-stack intelligent vehicle te...
- Zuo Jing
Vice Chairman and General Manager of Leader Harmonious Drive Systems Co., Ltd. (Leaderdrive), a Shanghai-listed manufacturer of harmonic reducers — the 'joints'...
- Zuo Yuyu
Founder and Chairman of Leader Harmonious Drive Systems Co., Ltd. (Leaderdrive), a Shanghai-listed manufacturer of harmonic reducers for robots. He and his olde...
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