Raffaello D’Andrea
Raffaello D’Andrea is the founder and CEO of Verity, the world’s leading autonomous indoor drone company, and a professor at ETH Zürich. In 2003, he co-founded Kiva Systems, which was later acquired by Amazon and rebranded as Amazon Robotics. During his time as a professor at Cornell University, he co-founded the systems engineering program and led the Cornell Robot Soccer team to four world championships. Raffaello’s work as a new media artist has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and is part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and France’s FRAC Centre. With his team at Verity, he created the drone design and choreography for Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour on Broadway, Metallica’s WorldWired Tour, and Céline Dion’s Courage Tour. In 2020, he was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and elected to the National Academy of Engineering. His TED and research videos, with tens of millions of views, offer an inspiring view into the world of engineering, robotics, and computer science.
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