Ryan Gariepy – CTO, Clearpath Robotics – Canada

We learned about Ryan and his company, Clearpath Robotics, while researching developments in robotics for our June 2015 cover story. Robotics is no longer just about the mechanics of propulsion and control of payload devices; navigation, intelligent and autonomous navigation, and proximity sensing and feature recognition are where the greatest advances are being made.

Ryan Gariepy is the chief technology officer for Clearpath and has an impressive background in mechatronics, has been working in the vibrant Canadian robotics community (fast becoming a global magnet for such development), and has specialized in such fields as machine vision, controls and path planning, system architecture, robot state estimation and localization, multi-robot systems, and user interface design.