Dr Rafa Felix PhD

Dr. Rafa Felix is a Brazilian-Australian computer scientist (PhD) and Director of R2B Research Lab, where he is pioneering the future of Embodied Trust. After leading global Trust & Safety systems for platforms with over a billion users, Dr. Felix has pivoted his focus to the most critical safety frontier of our time: the physical world. His work centers on a singular mission: ensuring that as robots move from specialized factories into our homes, restaurants and elderly care facility, they are inherently safe not through rigid rules, but through "Zero-Shot Alignment". This allows robots to handle the unexpected and navigate life-critical situations without prior training. Through a mix of open-source safety standards and technical advisory, Dr. Felix is building the frameworks tha...