Raffaello D’Andrea co-founded warehouse automation company Kiva Systems, which was sold to Amazon in 2012 for $775m and rebranded as Amazon Robotics, and then Verity, the autonomous indoor drone company now growing quickly in Zürich. 

He is also a Professor of Dynamic Systems & Control at Switzerland’s leading technology university ETH, in Zürich and was formerly an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University in the US.  

In conversation with Ian Charles Stewart, WiReD Magazine co-founder and IMD Executive in Residence, D'Andrea talks about the future of Robotics and AI/Machine Learning in our latest Founder Series interview.