Meet 26-yr-old highest paid in robotic engineering—and he’s a Nigerian

Silas Adekunle, a 26-year-old Nigerian who built the world’s first gaming robot, has become the highest paid in the field of robotic engineering.

Adekunle got into this pay grade after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.

He was “Someone to Watch in 2018” by the Black Hedge Fund Group.

The founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, a company developing the world’s first gaming robots, recently graduated with a first class degree, and has gathered four years’ experience in robotics.

The Lagos-born inventor studied in Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom as a teenager.

He went to the University of the West of England where he graduated with a first class degree in Robotics.

In 2013, Adekunle founded Reach Robotics where he got lot of experience on robotics.

He was also a team leader of Robotics In Schools programme, a programme which encourages and pays attention to students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The programme encouraged him to develop robotics to make education more entertaining for STEM students.

In 2017 MekaMon, he released the world’s first gaming robot, with the special ability to customise the gaming bot to perform personalised functions.

The initial launch of Mekamon sold 500 bots, generating $7.5 million.

He later received support from various organisations including London Venture Partners ($10 million) and Reach Robotics signed a deal with Apple securing exclusive sales in Apple stores.

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“Impressed by the quality of his robots and their ability to show emotion with subtly-calibrated movements, Apple priced his four-legged “battle-bots” at $300 and has put them in nearly all of its stores in the United States and Britain,” Forbes reported.