BOW, the robotics software company is pleased to announce the appointment of Liz Upton, Co-Founder of Raspberry Pi, as the Chair of its board.
The robotics market is expected to reach $260 billion by 2030, however realising the full potential of robotics remains out of reach for some companies and industries due to the high cost and complexity of programming robots. BOW’s robot-agnostic software development kit (SDK) and platform seeks to address this bottleneck by making it possible to program any robot using any operating system in any programming language.
BOW, ‘Bettering our Worlds’, makes its possible for any software developer to create and deploy robotics applications and manage robots. By removing the requirement for highly-specialised robotics programming, BOW’s universal robotics platform allows companies to leverage the skills of generalist software developers.
Liz Upton, who co-founded Raspberry Pi in 2008, played a crucial role as Chief Marketing Officer in the company’s growth, achieving sales of over 60 million units worldwide and a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year.
Liz Upton’s appointment follows the announcement of BOW’s recent partnership with XPLOR, the world’s first Live Events R&D and Innovation centre. The partnership is pioneering the adoption of robotics in the film and creative industries, focusing on developing new applications, improving efficiency and lowering production costs.
“The BOW team’s passion for innovation and their commitment to developing the world’s first universal robotics platform is inspiring. At Raspberry Pi, we have always been driven by the mission of democratising computing for all. Robotics similarly has the potential to help solve global challenges but only if we can remove the barriers to its adoption,” commented Liz Upton. “BOW solves the current complexity of developing robotics applications and makes programming any robot in any programming language possible for the first time. I’m excited to join this pioneering and fast-growing company as Chair and to help BOW make the tremendous benefits of robotics universally accessible.”
“We are delighted to welcome Liz Upton to BOW as our new Chair. I’d like to thank our former Chair, Pete Hopton, for his tremendous contribution to BOW since we founded the company in 2020,” added Nick Thompson, CEO of BOW. “Liz brings a wealth of experience in scaling a transformational technology business globally. In addition, her deep commitment to innovation and education aligns perfectly with BOW’s mission to enable millions of software developers to develop robotics applications for the betterment of our world.”
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