Trinity Engineers’ Association: The Road to Embodied AI with Alex Kendall (2014)
November 21 at 18:00 to 19:30 GMT
Chatbots and search engines are just the tip of the iceberg for artificial intelligence. Embodied AI promises to bring the benefits of intelligent machines to the physical world, to transform society with increased safety, sustainability and freedom. Autonomous driving will be the first large-scale application and brings the most complex engineering challenge of our era, spanning topics like robotics, simulation, safety and public acceptance. This talk will reflect on Alex Kendall’s journey to build this, which started from PhD research at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, before founding Wayve and deploying fleets of autonomous vehicles around the world, to what we might expect to come next.
This event is part of the celebrations for the Department of Engineering’s 150th anniversary.
Trinity alumni and students are invited to attend a networking drinks after the talk in the OCR, Trinity College. To book onto the talk and drinks, please click the button above, or click here.
Speaker
Alex Kendall (Trinity 2014, Engineering)
Alex Kendall is the co-founder/CEO at Wayve, a startup pioneering Embodied AI. He completed his PhD in computer vision and robotics with Professor Roberto Cipolla at the University of Cambridge and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College. Today, Wayve is over 350 brilliant technologists, has raised $1.3B of funding from partners like SoftBank, Microsoft, Nvidia and Uber, and is focused on bringing the benefits of Embodied AI to autonomous mobility worldwide. Alex’s research has won numerous awards including the BMVA and ELLIS prizes. Outside of Wayve, Alex is passionate about deep tech startups and generally anything that involves adventure.
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