Who is the TUL guest?
I will quote just a few facts from her impressive CV. Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is the founder/CEO of Global Space Ventures, a company that supports technology pioneers in the fields of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, space and more. She sits on the board of directors of the XPRIZE Foundation, which contributed to the first private manned flight into space.
She is a co-founder of Escape Dynamics, a successful multi-year research program contributing to the development of breakthrough space technology that has been put on the NASA roadmap. As a prominent expert in innovation and security, she is, among others, a member of the US Department of Defense's Defense Science Board and NATO's Marine Unmanned Systems Innovation Advisory Board, as well as many other important organisations.
She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and ESSEC in France.
Two labs
At Lodz University of Technology, Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux met with teams from two Institutes whose research is embedded in space technologies.
At the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, a meeting took place with scientists implementing specialized coatings with applications in space engineering.
At the Institute of Automatic Control, she will meet with students from the Raptors team constructing further models of the Mars rover and strategies for the collaboration of driving and flying robots. During each of the meetings, Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux toured the laboratories and had discussions on topics related to the future prospects of space technology.
After the visit, she said:
It was great to see first-hand the cutting-edge research being pursued at the material science institute of Lodz University of Technology who has been growing their engagement with the global space sector. And I have to give a special shout out to their Raptors students team, whose autonomous battery swapping technology offers compelling use cases for aerial platforms and industrial uses.