Heron gathers a group of passionate people who aim to make the concept of 'intelligent autonomous agent' an everyday reality, and to set new standards in service robotics. This is a challenging task which is pursued through a network of research and business connections with some of the most active people and organization in the robotics community.
Fabio Bonsignorio
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
is founder and CEO of Heron Robots. He is a professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid (www.uc3m.es, roboticslab.uc3m.es) where he has been awarded the Santander Chair of Excellence in Robotics in 2009.
He has been working in the R&D departments of several major Italian and American companies, mainly in the applications of intelligent systems and technology transfer with cordination/management responsibilities for some 20 years. He held academic research positions on robotics and lectured in robotics, industrial control systems and machine design at the Department of Mechanics of the University of Genova.
He is author or co-author of about 100 publications in the areas of robotics, cognition and manufacturing systems in the last three years, since he became an almost full time researcher. His first paper on robot control dates back to 1985.
He is puzzled by foundational and epistemological issues in (embodied) cognition and robotics, while chasing viable real world applications. He is a member of IEEE/RAS, AAAI, CLAWAR, and euCognition. He coordinates the EURON Special Interest Group on Good Experimental Methodology and Benchmarking in Robotics and is a board member of EURON III. He is a FP7 EU project reviewer.