Speaker

Tim Swift, PhD

Founder and CEO

Roam Robotics

Dr. Tim Swift is the Founder and CEO of Roam Robotics, a silicon-valley based robotics company developing lightweight, low-cost wearable robotic systems to restore and expand human mobility. Dr. Swift holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where he helped lay the technical foundations for modern wearable robotics. As an early employee at Ekso Bionics, he served on the original three-person engineering team that invented the Ekso rigid medical exoskeleton. Driven to make assistive robotics accessible and practical for everyday life, he founded Roam Robotics in 2013 to pioneer high-strength, fabric-based pneumatic exoskeletons.