Speakers 2026

Benji Barash is the co-founder and CEO at Roboto AI, a company focused on accelerating the search and analysis of robotics data. Prior to founding Roboto, Benji worked as an engineering leader at Amazon Robotics, and at the Allen Institute […]

Spencer Krause has been engineering and building robots for over 25 years. He is the president and CEO of SKA Robotics, which has served multiple fortune 100 companies developing advanced field robotic systems and assisted in developing multiple robotic healthcare […]

Robert Brooks is a leading expert in precision, high reliability robotic sensing and design. In industry, Brooks has worked across a broad range of high-reliability sectors including nuclear, steel, industrial robotics, pharmaceutical automation and medical devices. He also has a […]

Darren Porras is the market development manager for healthcare at Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Darren has over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry and product development. Prior to joining RTI, Darren was a program manager at Medtronic for […]

Steve Crowe is Executive Editor of The Robot Report and chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo and RoboBusiness. He is also co-host of The Robot Report Podcast, the top-rated podcast for the robotics industry. He joined WTWH Media in […]

Eugene Demaitre is editorial director of The Robot Report. Prior to working for WTWH Media, he was an editor at BNA (now part of Bloomberg), Computerworld, TechTarget, and Robotics Business Review. He has participated in conferences worldwide, as well as […]

Tyler Niday is the co-founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics. Before founding Bonsai Robotics, Tyler spent seven years at Blue River Technology and John Deere in engineering leadership, where he played a key role in pioneering “See & Spray” technology […]

Ted Larson is the CEO of OLogic, a research and development outsourcing company with a focus on robotics. OLogic has worked on products for companies such as Hasbro, Facebook, Google, Motorola, HP, and Amazon. Larson is computer software and electronics […]

Dr. YJ Lim is the principal technical product lead at MathWorks, specializing in robotics and autonomous systems with over 25 years of experience. Previously, he was the project manager at Vecna Robotics, focusing on advanced robotics development. Before Vecna, Lim […]