Greg Baiden
President
Penguin Automated Systems Inc.
Dr. Greg Baiden is President of Penguin Automated Systems Inc., a leading private research and development company that provides mobile robotic technology solutions for numerous clients in various industries such as mining, environmental cleanup, agriculture, search and rescue, forestry and security.
Greg led global mining Research and Development for Inco Limited with projects highlighted by the conception and pilot implementation of tele-robotic mining. His responsibilities included all aspects of the technical requirements for exploration, mining and processing for the Sudbury orebody, a massive asteroid hit now producing critical minerals and chemicals for the world. As part of these responsibilities, he was a member of the senior leadership team running the Ontario Division’s 10 mines, processing plants including smelter which was a multi-billion dollar business with 4000 plus employees. At a corporate level he was responsible for the strategic planning and R&D of the corporation’s mining.
Since his work at Inco, he has run numerous projects for major terrestrial mining companies from custom robotics for mining processes to scoping, prefeasibility and feasibility studies for mines specializing in the implementation of teleautonomous mining and robotic systems. Some of these projects have included: planning a robotic mine to mine the “Ring of Fire” asteroid hit, a major industrial cooperative robotics to dismantle an explosives pattern threatening the mine viability, creating a robotic Hang- up Removal robot to tele remotely load explosives into dangerous rock blockages and many more. In addition, he has led initiatives in lunar mining with organizations such as Shackleton Energy and authored the strategic lunar mining plan for the Canadian Space Agency.
Dr. Baiden holds a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from McGill University with a specialty in technology and economics. In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Canadian Research Chair in Robotics and Mine Automation at Laurentian University. Dr. Baiden was a professor at Laurentian for 14 years before leaving to grow Penguin Automated Systems Inc. in Naughton. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta and has performed work with the University of Memphis and several military groups.
Dr. Baiden served on the Board of Directors for several national and international boards. Locally, he has been a member of the board of Greater Sudbury Development Corporation and the Art Gallery of Sudbury among others.