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Peter is the Director of the Department of Robotics at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, where he works building out the over 400 company robotics ecosystem. He’s the president of the board of Avendly, a bartending robot startup and principal consultant at VAIRC. He was faculty at the Brown University School of Engineering. He was also formerly the Associate Director of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University where he worked supporting cross disciplinary research in AI, robotics, and IOT, focusing on impacts on society. He was involved in research projects moral norms in AI, VR teleoperation of robots, natural language processing and computer vision. He was the Co-founder and COO of XactSense, a high growth early stage start up producing next generation ROS based aerial robots for laser scanning the built environment using LIDAR and SLAM. Prior to this he was the founder of AIDG a small and medium enterprise development charity that did business incubation and appropriate technology product design. He has an interesting view of robotics and AI inspired by years of working on design for extreme affordability and in some of the most economically challenged communities in the world. He is self represented.