Giorgio PantanoGiorgio was born on 1st October 1957, he holds an economics sciences degree from University of Venice. He is inventor and entrepreneur for the company. After several years in the IT industry in 2001 he decided to dedicate himself to viticulture. Due to his managerial experiences he was chairman of Sansovino Vigneti e Cantine (now Conselve vigneti e cantine): www.cantinaconselve.it. In these years wines from the winery where awarded from all over the word giving to the winery an important role in the surroundings of Padua. Then, in 2008 he gave up to the management and started developing Rovitis, the autonomous robot for spraying. The project was also financed by Veneto region (www.ethics.it/dodich/). Now he is a full-time grape grower, leader of project Rovitis 4.0 and investigator of new technologies for viticulture.
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Grazia BottinGrazia was born on 15th November 1968, she is the owner of the company. She has an High School Diploma in International Languages. After several years in the fashion design sector she decided to open with his husband Giorgio, Mediana S.r.l a software design company and then the grape growing company Az. Agricola Pantano. Since then she helped growing the company with infrastructure investments up to one million euros meanwhile Giorgio was developing the robotic platform. She is now in charge of the grape tending and the company business strategy.
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Matteo PantanoMatteo was born on 27nd September 1995, he is the R&D supervisor for the company. He has a B.Sc. in Automation Engineering at University of Bologna (Italy) and a Master of Engineering in Automation and IT at Technische Hochschule Köln (Germany). He is now an industrial PhD candidate at Siemens through the Technische Universität München. M.Eng. Matteo Pantano has a vast experience with ROS, collaborative robotics, team management and artificial intelligence. Hence, he is handling the software and hardware development for the autonomous navigation. Moreover, he supervises the vertical integration of the autonomous robot in the vineyard infrastructure.
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