Aaron Martinez is a computer engineer, entrepreneur, and expert in digitalfabrication. He did his Master's thesis in 2010 at the IUCTC (Instituto Universitariode Ciencias y Tecnologias Ciberneticas) in the University of Las Palmas de GranCanaria. He prepared his Master's thesis in the fi eld of telepresence using immersivedevices and robotic platforms. After completing his academic career, he attended aninternship program at The Institute for Robotics in the Johannes Kepler University inLinz, Austria. During his internship program, he worked as part of a developmentteam of a mobile platform using ROS and the navigation stack. After that, he wasinvolved in some projects related to robotics, one of them is the AVORA projectin the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In this project, he worked on thecreation of an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) to participate in the StudentAutonomous Underwater Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) in Italy. In 2012, he wasresponsible for manufacturing this project; in 2013, he helped to adapt the navigationstack and other algorithms from ROS to the robotic platform.

Recently, Aaron created his own company called Biomecan. This company workswith projects related to robotics, manufacturing of prototypes, and engineeringtissue. The company manufactures devices for other companies and research anddevelopment institutes. For the past two years, he has been working on engineeringtissue projects, creating a new device to help researchers of cell culture.Aaron has experience in many fi elds such as programming, robotics, mechatronics,and digital fabrication, many devices such as Arduino, BeagleBone, Servers, andLIDAR, servomotors, and robotic platforms such as Wifi bot, Nao Aldebaran, andPioneer P3AT.