This profile is of a distinguished Professor and Director of research laboratories in renewable energy vehicles and robotics. With a career spanning decades in Germany and Australia, his work is highly applied, having led Australia's first electric vehicle trial and secured joint patents with industry giants like BMW and Mercedes-Benz for EV charging and autonomous driving technologies. He is an acclaimed author of textbooks and has built a significant legacy through the design of numerous mobile robots and the development of street-legal autonomous vehicles.