Raffaello D'Andrea

Raffaello D’Andrea (born August 13, 1967, in Pordenone, Italy) is a Canadian-Italian-Swiss engineer, artist, and entrepreneur. He is professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich. He is a co-founder of Kiva Systems (now operating as Amazon Robotics), and the founder of Verity, an innovator in autonomous drones. He was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Robot Soccer Team, four time world champions at the annual RoboCup competition. He is a new media artist, whose work includes The Table, the Robotic Chair, and Flight Assembled Architecture. In 2013, D’Andrea co-founded ROBO Global, which launched the world's first exchange traded fund focused entirely on the theme of robotics and AI. ROBO Global was acquired by VettaFi in 2023.

D'Andrea was a speaker at TED Global 2013 and spoke at TED 2016. In 2016, he received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, and in 2020 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and implementation of distributed automation systems for commercial applications. Provided by Wikipedia