Brad Porter
Cobot, Founder & CEO
Brad Porter is the CEO and Founder of Collaborative Robotics (Cobot), a robotics company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, backed by Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Mayo Clinic, and more. Before founding Cobot, Brad was Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, where he led a global team of 10,000 people overseeing robotics for all of Amazon’s logistics network. He also served as CTO of Scale AI, was Platform Architect for Tellme Networks, and began his career as an engineer at Netscape. In 2026, Brad was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, large-scale distributed systems, and advancing human-robot collaboration. Brad holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
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Recognizing the Best of MIT: A Conversation with This Year's AI Award Honorees
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Recognizing the Best of MIT: A Conversation with This Year's AI Award Honorees
9:20 AMHahn AuditoriumHonoring the people whose work embodies MIT's mission to serve the nation and the world, from lifetime achievement to the rising stars redefining what AI can do.
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