In-person
Location: Dr Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. More location information

Chatbots and search engines are just the tip of the iceberg for artificial intelligence. Embodied AI promises to bring the benefits of intelligent machines to the physical world, to transform society with increased safety, sustainability and freedom. Autonomous driving will be the first large-scale application and brings the most complex engineering challenge of our era, spanning topics like robotics, simulation, safety and public acceptance. Alex Kendall reflected on his journey to build this, which started from PhD research at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, before founding Wayve and deploying fleets of autonomous vehicles around the world, to what we might expect to come next.

This event was part of the celebrations for the Department of Engineering's 150th anniversary. 

Speakers
Alex Kendall
Trinity 2014, Engineering
Image of Alex Kendall

Alex Kendall is the co-founder/CEO at Wayve, a startup pioneering Embodied AI. He completed his PhD in computer vision and robotics with Professor Roberto Cipolla at the University of Cambridge and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College. Today, Wayve is over 350 brilliant technologists, has raised $1.3B of funding from partners like SoftBank, Microsoft, Nvidia and Uber, and is focused on bringing the benefits of Embodied AI to autonomous mobility worldwide. Alex's research has won numerous awards including the BMVA and ELLIS prizes. Outside of Wayve, Alex is passionate about deep tech startups and generally anything that involves adventure. 

Contact information
Events Team
Tel: Reception: +44 (0)1223 332 288
Location

Dr Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1PZ
United Kingdom

Location information

The lecture theatre is on the ground floor of the Baker building. Access is from Trumpington Street via the side street to the right of the Department of Architecture. The Baker building entrance is marked by a red arrow on this map.

52.198655, 0.121787