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‘In software, the name of the game is innovation’

Nicolás Jodal codes software solutions for navigating pandemics and other obstacles.
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Nicolás Jodal with MadMax, a development prototype of an autonomous collaborative robot

Nicolás Jodal is a systems engineer, co-founder and chief executive of GeneXus, and a director of the innovation accelerator ThalesLab in Montevideo, Uruguay. Credit: Pablo Albarenga for Nature

At GeneXus, we build software that builds software. A robot or artificial intelligence, not a human, writes the code for new apps. The company, which I co-founded in 1988, is also working on small autonomous vehicles for agrobusiness. The prototype in this picture — at our global headquarters in Montevideo — which I helped to program, is named MadMax (after the 1979 film). It will work in a greenhouse, transporting lettuces after workers pick them.

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Nature 593, 620 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01400-5

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