Chris Smith is VP of Hardware Engineering at Starship Technologies, leading the team behind the world's #1 fleet of autonomous delivery robots, thousands of machines already making millions of real deliveries. He has spent his career at the sharp end of autonomous systems, with earlier roles at Dyson and BAE Systems spanning consumer electronics, defence and aerospace. A passionate systems thinker and people leader, he loves turning bold ideas into safe, reliable products that deliver real value, and ship at scale.