A fusion of two worlds

At the heart of Avatars One is the fusion of two complementary worlds: cutting-edge robotics and world-class entertainment.

Luigi Penco | Founder & CEO

Luigi is the technical and operational mind behind the vision.

He holds a Ph.D in Robotics and he is the inventor of the concept and the enabling technology. He brings deep expertise in robotics and AI, with a decade of experience developing advanced robotic systems and collaborating with renowned organizations like IHMC, NASA, ONR, ARL and many leading humanoid robotics companies. He also has a strong network within the robotics industry worldwide, being the current Co-Chair of the IEEE-RAS TC on Telerobotics.

Luigi is Italian, but also speaks English, French, Spanish.

Luigi Penco | Founder & CEO

Luigi is the technical mind behind the vision.

He holds a Ph.D in Robotics and he is the inventor of the technology and original concept. He brings deep expertise in robotics, AI, and engineering, with a decade of experience developing advanced robotic systems and collaborating with renewed organizations like IHMC, NASA, DARPA, ONR, and other top-tier institutions. He also has a strong network within the robotics industry worldwide.

Luigi is Italian, but also speaks English, French, Spanish.

Luigi Penco | Founder & CEO

Luigi is the technical and operational mind behind the vision.

He holds a Ph.D in Robotics and he is the inventor of the concept and the enabling technology. He brings deep expertise in robotics and AI, with a decade of experience developing advanced robotic systems and collaborating with renowned organizations like IHMC, NASA, ONR, ARL and many leading humanoid robotics companies. He also has a strong network within the robotics industry worldwide, being the current Co-Chair of the IEEE-RAS TC on Telerobotics.

Luigi is Italian, but also speaks English, French, Spanish.

Claudia Artzer | Head of Marketing & Communications

Claudia leads the company’s brand, communications, and entertainment strategy.

With an academic background in communications and law, she spent a decade in the entertainment industry before joining the tech sector. She began her career in production and administration roles at leading opera houses and symphony orchestras across Europe and the United States, before becoming an artist manager, working with Grammy Award winning musicians. She later transitioned into tech and AI, coordinating the robotics lab at IHMC, one of the world's leading humanoid robotics research institutes.

Claudia is half French and half Spanish and is also fluent in Italian and English.

Claudia Artzer | Head of Marketing & Communicationsdia leads the company’s brand, communications, and entertainment strategy.

Claudia leads the company’s brand, communications, and entertainment strategy.

With an academic background in communications and law, she spent a decade in the entertainment industry before joining the tech sector. She began her career in production and administration roles at leading opera houses and symphony orchestras across Europe and the United States, before becoming an artist manager. She later transitioned into tech and AI, coordinating the robotics lab at IHMC, one of the world's leading humanoid robotics research institutes.

Claudia is half French and half Spanish and is also fluent in Italian and English.

Claudia Artzer | Head of Marketing & Communications


With an academic background in communications and law, she spent a decade in the entertainment industry before joining the tech sector. She began her career in production and administration roles at leading opera houses and symphony orchestras across Europe and the United States, before becoming an artist manager. She later transitioned into tech and AI, coordinating the robotics lab at IHMC, one of the world's leading humanoid robotics research institutes.

Claudia is half French and half Spanish and is also fluent in Italian and English.

20+ years of R&D legacy

Avatars One is a sports-media company powered by technology spun out of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), one of the nation's premier not-for-profit research institutes, headquartered in Pensacola, Florida.

The core of our technology is a proprietary teleoeperation stack developed and refined over 20+ years through programs with NASA, DARPA, the U.S. military, MegaBots, and through NDAs with leading humanoid robotics companies worldwide. Proven in some of the most demanding real-world environments, it is the technical foundation that sets Avatars Oneapart.

Over the years, our team has worked hands-on with more than 10 humanoid robots across different platforms and manufacturers, giving us the cross-platform expertise to deploy our avatar technology on virtually any humanoid robot in the field today.

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