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Co-Piloting Autonomy: Engineers & Safety Leaders Scaling Real-World Robotics Together

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Explore functional safety standards and best practices for scaling autonomous robots. A panel of safety engineers and leaders discuss robot safety engineering, human-robot collaboration, designing safe autonomy, and deployment challenges. Featured at Actuate, Foxglove's annual conference for robotics developers.

Speakers

Ankita Joshi, Senior System Safety Engineer, Cobot

Ankita holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Public Policy focused on technology policy, all from the University of California, Berkeley.

Heidi Schubert, Director of Software and Autonomy, Cobot

Heidi leads the Software and Autonomy team at Cobot to make Proxie trustworthy and adaptable. She has more than 20 years of experience developing software solutions to challenging problems. Previous roles include leading the Amazon Prime Air Drone ground station team and leading the autonomy software for Amazon Astro. Heidi has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Stanford Aerospace Robotics Lab.

Ilia Baranov, Co-Founder & CTO, Polymath Robotics

Ilia Baranov is the Co-founder and CTO of Polymath Robotics, a San Francisco-based SaaS for robotics startup. Polymath Robotics makes software to autonomously drive ground vehicles in agriculture, raw materials, defense, and other sectors. Previously, Ilia led robotics teams at Amazon, working on software for the Astro home robot, and was an early employee at Clearpath Robotics, based in Canada. He will often take the "Swiss Army knife" approach to a problem, where the faster and most versatile solution is preferred to the perfect solution.

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