Juan Ojea is the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation for Siemens in Berkeley, California. With a deep technical background in advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and smart manufacturing, Juan leads a team of researchers and engineers that work with the best university researchers in the US to design and deploy automation solutions that leverage the latest advances in sensing and AI. Juan and his team coined the term "Edge Robotics" to describe the application of machine learning algorithms into robot control, running on edge computing, making their approach faster and more efficient than other popular approaches.

Besides his work at Siemens, Juan serves as a Technical Advisor for the Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM), a Manufacturing USA Cooperative Institute aimed at lowering the barriers to adopt robotics technology and asserting U.S. leadership in advanced manufacturing.

Juan holds a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Master of Science in Information and Communications Technologies Engineering from Lunds tekniska högskola. He also studied Executive Education, Product Management at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

In summary, Juan Ojea is a leading expert in advanced robotics, AI, and smart manufacturing. He is the Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation at Siemens in Berkeley, California, where he leads a team of researchers and engineers to develop and deploy automation solutions that leverage machine learning algorithms in robot control, making their approach faster and more efficient.