COMPANY
From neuroscience
to real-world robotics.
Opteran grew out of about 20 years of research into how brains work, from bees to humans.
We created Opteran to turn those biological principles into software that makes robots work in the real world.
OUR ORIGINS
Research became algorithms.
Algorithms became Opteran.
Leadership team
Dr Alex Cope
CEO & Co-Founder
20 years of neuroscience expertise
Prof James Marshall
Founding Science Officer
World expert on decentralized intelligence
John Murphy
Chair
Shipped AI, ADAS and robotics to Red Bull Racing, Skydance, Daimler & Tata
Dr Alex Formstone
COO / CFO
Former Marakon partner, 12+ years advising growth strategy
Nigel Nugent
Go-to-market
20 years scaling enterprise software sales
Sahil Malhotra
Chief Product Officer
CEO of Virtual Incision; ran US$2bn GE business
SCIENTIFIC NETWORK
Connected to leading research
in robotics and neuroscience.
Opteran is advised by researchers whose work spans insect-inspired robotics, visual navigation, autonomous flight and comparative cognition.
Scientific network
Prof Barbara Webb
University of Edinburgh
Prof Holger Krapp
Imperial College London
Prof Guido de Croon
Delft University of Technology
Prof Andrew Barron
Macquarie University
CAREERS
Help build the intelligence behind
the next generation of robots.
We bring together neuroscience, robotics, software engineering
and product development to build Opteran Mind.
