Robert Brooks is the founder and CEO of Forcen, a Toronto-based manufacturer of force/torque sensing solutions. Forcen has rebuilt force/torque sensing from the ground up with a patented technology stack to enable plug-and-play, maintenance-free sensing in unstructured, complex, and high-reliability applications across surgical, logistic, field, space, and frontier robotics.
Robert has over a decade of experience in robotics working broadly across nuclear, manufacturing, logistic, pharmaceutical, and surgical robotics industries. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto with his thesis focused on next-generation sensing and actuation for surgical robotics.
