Alberto Lacaze is the co-founder and president of Robotic Research. He is an internationally recognized leader in robotic engineering and frequently sought-after expert speaker at technology and industry forums around the world. Lacaze is a robotics engineering visionary, who leads the Robotic Research team in developing innovations that bring greater safety and security to public transportation and defense systems through the power of robotics and supporting technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has written close to 100 patents in the field of robotics and automation. He is a winner of the NIST Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award for “world-leading research and development in robotic perception, planning and control and its application to unmanned ground vehicles.”