Francesco Mondada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Francesco Mondada

Swiss academic

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Locarno, Switzerland

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Francesco Mondada (born 17 March 1967) is a Swiss professor in artificial intelligence and robotics.
He got a Master's degree in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991 and a Ph.D.
degree in 1997.
He is one of the creators of the Khepera and directed the design of the S-bot, the e-puck, the marXbot and the Thymio mobile robots.
Together, these robots are mentioned in more than 9000 research articles.
In particular the Khepera robot is a milestone in the field of bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics. He was one of the founders and director of K-team SA from its creation 1995 to 2000, and one of the founders of Calerga Sarl in 2001 and Mobsya in 2010.His recent work concerns collective robotics and education.