Robots from Dyson
About
The lecture will start with a brief overview of Rob’s career history and role as a Robotics System Architect at Dyson, followed by an overview of the main components of the 360VisNav, Dyson’s third worldwide sales, mass market robotic vacuum cleaner. The robot's sensors, electronics and actuators were available for attendees to handle and inspect. Rob then talked through the major component of the robot, its visual-based SLAM system. The lecture will conclude with an overview of future research directions and examples of robots for sustainability, and a demonstration of the 360VisNav.
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
25 Feb 2025
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Organiser
- North West Midlands Local Network
Speakers
Professor Rob Deaves FREng
Product Manager - Oxa
Prof. Robert Deaves has over 35 years of engineering experience gained at three iconic companies: BAE Systems, STMicroelectronics, Dyson and Oxa respectively.
Rob is an industrial Chartered Engineer and has achieved fellowships from the Institution of Engineering Technology (FIET) and Higher Eduation Academy (FHEA). He has also been awarded fellowships of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) and of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).
He was awarded a RAEng Visiting Professorship at Imperial College London in 2017 enabling teaching support for 33 national and international universities. Further, he is an Honorary Professor at the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham. In 2024, he was awarded an IET Achievement Medal in Robotics. He has also chaired EPSRC/ERDF research projects with a total funding of £25M (including PAMELA, Brains-on-Board, Cradle and IROHMS).
The main themes of his work are related to robotics, with research into navigation algorithms, particularly Simultaneous Localisation and Map Building (SLAM), development of embedded technologies, specifically System-on-Chip devices, and autonomous robot full product life cycle, specifically the Dyson 360Heurist and 360VisNav.
At Dyson, Rob was a Robotics System Architect working on full product lifecycle. He was the Product Technical Lead for the 360Heurist and System Architect for the 360VisNav. These autonomous vacuum cleaners have achieved mass market and worldwide sales. He has recently taken up the role of Product Manager at Oxa, bringing automation to transport systems.