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Damith Herath is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Art at the University of Canberra. Damith is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and a roboticist with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary research teams on complex robotic integration and industrial and research projects for over two decades. He founded Australia’s first collaborative robotics startup in 2011 and was named one of Australia’s most innovative young tech companies in 2014. Teams he led in 2015 and 2016 consecutively became finalists and, in 2016, a top-ten category winner in the coveted Amazon Robotics Challenge – an industry-focussed competition amongst the robotics research elite. In addition, Damith has chaired several international workshops on Robots and Art and is the lead editor of the book “Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis” – the first significant work to feature leading roboticists and artists together in the field of Robotic Art.

 

Damith Herath

Damith Herath is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Art at the University of Canberra. Damith is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and a roboticist with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary research teams on complex robotic integration and industrial and research projects for over two decades. He founded Australia’s first collaborative robotics startup in 2011 and was named one of Australia’s most innovative young tech companies in 2014. Teams he led in 2015 and 2016 consecutively became finalists and, in 2016, a top-ten category winner in the coveted Amazon Robotics Challenge – an industry-focussed competition amongst the robotics research elite. In addition, Damith has chaired several international workshops on Robots and Art and is the lead editor of the book “Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis” – the first significant work to feature leading roboticists and artists together in the field of Robotic Art.

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