About the Speaker

Dr Rob Buckingham FREng FIET

Rob is a Director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the first Head of RACE, the UK’s new centre for Remote Applications in Challenging Environments. Rob was a lead author of the UK’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Strategy. Before joining the UKAEA, Rob co-founded and was Managing Director of OC Robotics which developed and commercialised snake-arm robots. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.