TEDx speaking
TEDx Bratislava, 2014
Sharing the journey from arriving in Plymouth to building robots, and thanking the people who helped along the way.
TEDx recordMilestones
Milestones
The awards, experiments and personal achievements I am glad to have a record of.
Research, learning & speaking
Some moments that mattered
PhD thesis
GPU Computing for Cognitive Robotics, 2014
The thesis that held the iCub, Aquila, CUDA, action-language, and vision work together.
Read thesis record
Education / Plymouth
Revell Research Systems Prize, 2008
After working nights and studying BSc Computing during the day, Martin received the Revell Research Systems Prize as the top final-year BSc Computing student at the University of Plymouth. The prize marked the transition from the Plymouth work-study years into Mars-rover research, iCub, and the PhD.
Plymouth / origin
Plymouth restart, 2004
A modest marker for the beginning of the UK chapter: manual work, English, BSc Computing, astronomy, and the route into robotics.
ESA / Mars
ESA rover collaboration, 2009-2010
Planetary robotics under real constraints.
Open ESA project
NVIDIA / CUDA
NVIDIA / CUDA, 2011-2014
Early GPU-computing work made visible through the Santa Clara HQ visit, CUDA spotlight, GTC material, and SC11 keynote mention.
Science Museum London
iCub video shown in museum display
Public afterlife for the iCub action-language work.
Watch iCub video
Natural bodybuilding
From the first competitions to a championship
I competed in natural bodybuilding through 2022 and 2023 before winning the Men Physique Over 40 category in 2024. The photographs and results below mark those years of training.
Competition result
Champion, Men Physique Over 40
My trophy from the Mr Universo CIBB Championship in Carlet, Valencia, December 2024. The category and result are recorded on its base.
Tao
Tao, ongoing
Building an off-grid home from abandoned land: construction, solar energy, water, planting and automation.
Tao recordFrom the archive
Photographs, certificates and the night sky
More to explorePhotographs, certificates, press and astronomy
2014 thesis object
The physical thesis
The bound PhD thesis object from the Plymouth cognitive-robotics period, tying the iCub, Aquila, CUDA, action-language, and vision work into one record.
RobotCub VVV 2009
iCub summer school in Genoa
Photograph from the 2009 RobotCub summer school near Genoa, connecting the Plymouth iCub work to the wider European humanoid-robotics community.
Open RobotCub school page
Manchester space exhibit
iCub outside the lab
Photograph of Martin Peniak with iCub in a Manchester space-exhibition setting, connecting the robotics work to public science context.
NVIDIA GTC 2014
Presenting GPU cognitive robotics
Photograph from the GTC 2014 presentation of GPU-accelerated cognitive-robotics work, connecting Aquila, iCub research, and CUDA experimentation.
Open NVIDIA slides
Slovak press
Newspaper coverage of iCub and rover work
A Slovak newspaper spread placing the humanoid robotics work beside the rover and space-research work.
PCCAT 2010 and 2011
Two consecutive best paper awards
The 2010 rover-control paper received the PCCAT best paper award. In 2011 the award went to Aquila: Massively Parallelised Developmental Robotics Framework.
Astrophotography
Learning the sky while rebuilding life
The restored astronomy archive keeps the planetary images, sunspots, nebulae, galaxies, lunar work, and star-party photographs from the old site visible again.
Astronomy / Plymouth Hoe
Sharing the night sky
A free public telescope evening at Plymouth Hoe, part of the same astronomy and astrophotography curiosity from the Plymouth years.
Open photograph