Bern Grush is the Executive Director of the Urban Robotics Foundation and project lead for the draft technical standard ISO 4448 "Public-area mobile robots." Since 2002, Bern has been involved with transportation-related innovation, standards, and regulatory research for road pricing, parking management, automated vehicles, and now the robots designed to clean and inspect sidewalks, deliver groceries, secure neighbourhoods, operate autonomous wheelchairs at hospitals and airports, and scrub floors at the mall. Before that, he founded PCI Geomatics to develop AI for image analysis systems for earth-imaging satellites. He has degrees in Human Factors Psychology from the University of Toronto and Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.