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Raffaello D'Andrea

Raffaello D'Andrea speaks about autonomous warehouse drones at AWS Swiss Cloud Day in March 2023.

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.[1] He is a co-founder of Kiva Systems[2] (now operating as Amazon Robotics[2]), and the founder of Verity, an innovator in autonomous drones.[3] He was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Robot Soccer Team, four time world champions at the annual RoboCup competition.[4] He is a new media artist, whose work includes The Table,[5] the Robotic Chair,[6] and Flight Assembled Architecture.[7] 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.[8]

D'Andrea was a speaker at TED Global 2013 and spoke at TED 2016.[9][10] In 2016, he received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award,[11] and in 2020 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering[12] for contributions to the design and implementation of distributed automation systems for commercial applications.

  1. ^ "Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich". Idsc.ethz.ch. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Amazon Robotics", www.aboutamazon.com, retrieved 2023-10-04
  3. ^ "Inventory Drones Deliver Your Zero-Error Warehouse – Verity". verity.net. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Cornell's student RoboCup team wins world title for the fourth time – Cornell Chronicle". News.cornell.edu. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. ^ "The Table – The National Gallery of Canada". Gallery.ca. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  6. ^ "The Robotic Chair – The National Gallery of Canada". Gallery.ca. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  7. ^ "FRAC Centre". Frac-centre.fr. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  8. ^ "VettaFi Acquires the ROBO Global Index Suite". www.businesswire.com. 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  9. ^ D'Andrea, Raffaello. "Raffaello D'Andrea – Speaker". Ted.com. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  10. ^ "The astounding athletic power of quadcopters". Ted.com. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  11. ^ "IEEE Robotics and Automation Award". IEEE Awards. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  12. ^ "Home". NAE Website. Retrieved 2023-10-04.

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