Professor Peter Childs is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial and Professorial Lead in Engineering Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. He is also a Founder Director at Chairperson at Q-Bot Ltd, a robotics company specialising in robots for applying for underfloor thermal insulation, and Director and Chairperson at BladeBUG Ltd, specialising in hexapod robots for wind-turbine inspection and maintenance.