Nabil Belbachir

Nabil Belbachir has almost three decades of experience with computer vision, AI and robotics, as engineer, scientist, visionary leader and strategist, contributing with sustainable innovative concepts, products and solutions. Nabil Belbachir is a research director at NORCE, director at eu-robotics Aisbl and strategy advisor for ADRA Aisbl and the European Commission, for coordinating European Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda and contributing to HEU work programme 2025-2027 in AI, Data and Robotics. He has a PhD (2005) in computer science from TU Vienna (Austria). He edited the single-source Springer book “Smart Cameras (2009)”, translated into Chinese by China Machine Press (2014) and has over 140 scientific publications, 3 patents. Actually, he is coordinating COGNIMAN, and iBot4CRMs, two Horizon Europe Innovation projects on AI-powered robotics, respectively for Flexible Manufacturing and for recovery of Critical Raw Materials from electronic waste. He is also leading the Agder CARM centre developing novel robotics solutions on urban mining.