Paul Newman is the CTO of Oxa, formerly known as Oxbotica
Paul Newman has been at the forefront of the robotics revolution for more than two decades.
After studying for an engineering master’s degree at the University of Oxford, he moved to the University of Sydney to obtain his PhD. His storied career has taken him from subsea navigation to the Australian Centre for Field Robotics and MIT, before returning him to Oxford.
Today, he serves as the BP professor of information engineering at the University of Oxford and the chief technology officer of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica), a company pioneering universal autonomy.
As the UK makes moves to bring automated vehicles to our streets, Newman spoke about the “metadiscipline” of engineering, the shift toward industrial automation and why we shouldn’t fear the rise of “embodied AI”.
