Sami Haddadin — Director, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence; Co-founder, Franka Emika

**Sami Haddadin** is the Director of the **Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)** at the Technical University of Munich and the co-founder of **Franka Emika**, the company that developed the Panda — one of the most advanced collaborative robots (cobots) in the world. He received the **Leibniz Prize** (Germany's most prestigious research award) and the **Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize** for his groundbreaking work on safe human-robot interaction.