Ignacio Tartavull

Who is Ignacio Tartavull?

Ignacio Tartavull is the founder and CEO of Tiny Mile, a robotics company based in Toronto that specializes in last-mile delivery using small, pink delivery robots named Geoffrey.13 He has a background in industrial engineering and previously worked on autonomous vehicle research at Uber and computational neuroscience at Princeton University.12

Key Facts about Ignacio Tartavull:

• Founded Tiny Mile in 2019 to develop small delivery robots13
• Previously worked on autonomous vehicles at Uber and neuroscience research at Princeton12
• Has a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Rosario2
• Speaks Spanish natively, German at an elementary level, and English at a full professional proficiency2
• Personally designed the first Tiny Mile robot to be pink with heart-shaped eyes4
• Serves as the living embodiment of the Tiny Mile robots he created3
• Aims to have a few hundred robots operating in the next few years4

Tartavull is passionate about robotics and the environment, and he believes delivery robots can provide many of the benefits of self-driving cars much sooner, while reducing emissions and improving safety.4 Despite some initial setbacks, such as bans on Tiny Mile robots in Toronto and Ottawa, the company is now operating successfully in Miami, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina.5