Dr Zaki Hussein

Dr. Zaki Hussein is Founder & CEO of Touchlab, pioneering e-skin tactile sensors for humanoid robots, teleoperation, and healthcare. Robotics researcher and serial technical founder with 10+ years building deep-tech hardware across robotics, tactile sensing, ML, VR, nanocomposites, and MEMS. Scottish EDGE winner, NVIDIA Inception partner, HAND-ERC industry partner, and VC-backed by Octopus Ventures, Techstart, and Creator Fund. XPrize Brain Trust Council member Leads ARIA grant for Generalisable Robot Intelligence in Tactile scenarios, led an $10m ANA Avatar XPRIZE finalist team, and deployed one of the first live humanoid tele-robotics pilots in a Helsinki stroke ward. Touchlab has integrated advanced tactile fingertips with e.g. Honda Research Institute and Shadow Robot, and recently launched a mass-producible robot fingertip and associated AI model that can detect slippage several materials including ice cubes.