Dr. Paolo Pirjanian is a Venture Partner at Calibrate Ventures and a pioneering entrepreneur, executive, and technologist in AI and robotics. As the Founder and CEO of both Embodied and Evolution Robotics, and as the former CTO of iRobot, he has helped bring more than 20 million robots to market, including Moxie, Sony Aibo, and the iRobot Roomba.

He currently serves on the Advisory Board at EON and advises the World Economic Forum on the responsible deployment of autonomous systems. Paolo is also a board member and advisor to several innovative companies, including Intuition Robotics, Happiest Baby, and Exyn Technologies.

He holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Aalborg University in Denmark, has taught AI at the University of Southern California, and conducted early robotics research at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.