Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield; Founder Science Officer, Opteran Technologies Ltd
Professor James Marshall is an international expert in bio-inspired robotics and Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence at the University of Sheffield. In 2020, he co-founded Opteran Technologies to commercialise his research. Opteran has gained significant investment and recognition, winning multiple awards. Through understanding the brain, Opteran is disrupting navigation technology for robotics with a new class of algorithms. As Founder Science Officer, Marshall continues to shape Opteran’s research strategy and vision for long-term advances in AI for robotics. As an academic he has published widely on this topic for academic and general audiences.
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