About me

I am the CEO and CTO of Acumino, where we build scalable physical AI for industrial automation — turning dexterous robotic manipulation from a research curiosity into a deployable product.

I direct the New Dexterity research group, which has spent the past decade pushing the frontiers of dexterous, dependable, and accessible robotic hands and manipulation systems. I am also the Founder of OpenBionics, an initiative that has lowered the barrier to advanced bionic limbs for people who need them, and the Founder of the Humanoid Olympiad, a global event benchmarking humanoid robotics through challenging tasks.

Academically I serve as an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Auckland and as an Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens. My research interests span robotic grasping and manipulation, robot learning, prosthetics and orthotics, soft robotics, and the broader question of what it takes to give machines real-world physical competence.