Known as the "Robot Whisperer," Dr. Madeline Gannon is a pioneering designer and technologist who tames industrial robots to make us feel. Her work bridges cutting-edge robotics, AI, and the human experience, proving that creativity is essential to shaping how these technologies impact society. As a former NVIDIA roboticist, she brings deep technical fluency to building more optimistic futures with machines.

Dr. Gannon's work is in the permanent collection of the Copernicus Science Centre and has been exhibited at cultural institutions worldwide. She has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader and named among the world's most influential women in robotics by Analytics Insight. Her work has been profiled by the BBC, NPR, the Guardian, Financial Times, WIRED, and FastCompany. She has held research positions at NVIDIA, and received residencies and awards from ETH Zurich, Autodesk, Carnegie Mellon, and the Knight Foundation. She holds a Ph.D in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a M.Arch from Florida International University.