Innovator in Robotic Navigation and Human-Robot Interaction
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ETH ZurichMartin Rufli combines academic expertise with industry experience as a Research Scientist at IBM Research Zurich. His educational journey at ETH Zurich includes a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering (2006, 2008) and a Ph.D. in robotics (2012). While serving as a lecturer at ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab since February 2011, he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship from September 2012 to August 2013. His research focuses on developing innovative algorithms for robotic navigation, specifically aimed at transitioning robots from controlled factory environments into everyday settings. Rufli's work emphasizes system-based online methods and algorithms that model robot-robot interaction, contributing to the advancement of autonomous systems that can seamlessly integrate into human environments.