Ali Muhammad

Ali Muhammad is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where he leads research and innovation activities in robotics, AI, and automation for the Centre of Large-Scale Production. With more than 25 years of experience spanning academia, research, and industry, he has held leadership positions at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, founded the robotics consultancy Robotiq Oy, and currently lead international R&D projects in manufacturing, construction, renewable energy, and autonomous systems.

Ali has coordinated and contributed to numerous European initiatives funded through Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, ESA, and Fusion for Energy, with a combined project portfolio exceeding €50 million. His expertise includes robotics, embodied AI, human-robot collaboration, industrial automation, teleoperation, and technology transfer. He represents SDU in the European robotics and AI community through euRobotics and ADRA, where he leads activities on AI for robotics and contributes to the development of European strategic research agendas. Ali is the co-lead of the Embodied AI topic group in Adra and support the formulation of European Strategy on Physical AI.