Aaron Martinez is a computer engineer, entrepreneur, and expert in digital
fabrication. He did his Master's thesis in 2010 at the IUCTC (Instituto Universitario
de Ciencias y Tecnologias Ciberneticas) in the University of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria. He prepared his Master's thesis in the fi eld of telepresence using immersive
devices and robotic platforms. After completing his academic career, he attended an
internship program at The Institute for Robotics in the Johannes Kepler University in
Linz, Austria. During his internship program, he worked as part of a development
team of a mobile platform using ROS and the navigation stack. After that, he was
involved in some projects related to robotics, one of them is the AVORA project
in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In this project, he worked on the
creation of an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) to participate in the Student
Autonomous Underwater Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) in Italy. In 2012, he was
responsible for manufacturing this project; in 2013, he helped to adapt the navigation
stack and other algorithms from ROS to the robotic platform.
Recently, Aaron created his own company called Biomecan. This company works
with projects related to robotics, manufacturing of prototypes, and engineering
tissue. The company manufactures devices for other companies and research and
development institutes. For the past two years, he has been working on engineering
tissue 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, and
LIDAR, servomotors, and robotic platforms such as Wifi bot, Nao Aldebaran, and
Pioneer P3AT.

Enrique Fernandez is a computer engineer and roboticist. He did his Master's
Thesis in 2009 at the University Institute of Intelligent Systems and Computational
Engineering in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. There he has been
working on his Ph.D for the last four years; he is expected to become a Doctor in
Computer Science by September 2013. His Ph.D addresses the problem of Path
Planning for Autonomous Underwater Gliders, but he has also worked on other
robotic projects. He participated in the Student Autonomous Underwater
Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) in 2012, and collaborated for the 2013 edition. In 2012,
he was awarded a prize for the development of an underwater pan-tilt vision system.
Now, Enrique is working for Pal-Robotics as a SLAM engineer. He completed his
internship in 2012 at the Center of Underwater Robotics Research in the University
of Girona, where he developed SLAM and INS modules for the Autonomous
Underwater Vehicles of the research group using ROS. He joined Pal-Robotics
in June 2013, where he is working with REEM robots using the ROS software
intensively and developing new navigation algorithms for wheeled and biped
humanoid robots, such as the REEM-H3 and REEM-C.