Samantha Payne

Samantha Payne is the co-founder of Open Bionics - an award-winning robotics company turning children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney and Edios-Montreal to turn science fiction into reality. The start-up builds affordable assistive technologies that enhance the human body. Open Bionics has won the global Robotics & AI for Good award, the James Dyson award for innovative engineering and two British Engineering Excellence awards. Samantha has been recognised as an entrepreneur to watch by Forbes30under30, Bloomberg, and Fast Company. Samantha's company brings science fiction to life.