Niamh Donnelly is the Co-Founder and Chief Robotics Officer at Akara. Akara develops robots and AI tools to help hospitals reduce costs and maximize utilization of their operating rooms. Before starting Akara, Niamh was a robotics researcher at Trinity College Dublin where her research featured on the cover of Time magazine. In 2023, Niamh was awarded the prestigious EU Women Innovators Award by the European Commission for her work in robotics.