Gerard (Gerry) Lacey is a Professor of Robotics in the Department of Electronic Engineering and works on robotics and human-machine systems, focusing on real-time computer vision with applications in healthcare. He has founded two award-winning university spin-off companies: Haptica (2000) developed mobile robots for healthcare and built Augmented Reality surgical simulators and SureWash (2010) currently develops hand hygiene training systems for hospitals and environmental services organisations.