Dr Peter Redmond is an Irish engineer, roboticist, inventor and special effects supervisor based in Dublin, and the founder of Mechatrons.
His work runs from aircraft avionics and academic research to robot combat, world records, film and television effects, and science outreach. This page is a reference to that work.
Engineering
Peter served 22 years as an aircraft avionics engineer with the Irish Air Corps. That grounding in systems that have to work safely and reliably, every time, shapes everything he has built since. He has patented technologies for aerospace and medical devices.
Robot Wars and robot combat
Peter was a founding member of Team Diotoir, Ireland’s best-known Robot Wars team, and also competed with Team Nemesis. In 1997 he began working on the effects for Robot Wars itself, the start of his career in film and television. He later created Robo Riots, a live robot combat event for families in Dublin, which Mechatrons sponsors.
With Team Nemesis he also competed in the BBC’s Technogames, where Ulysses, a combustion-engine sprinting robot, set a world record.
RuBot II
Peter created RuBot II, a humanoid robot that solves a Rubik’s Cube. In 2009 it was recognised by Guinness World Records as the fastest Rubik’s Cube-solving robot, appearing in the 2010 edition of the Guinness World Records book, and it has since been exhibited internationally, including at ArtBots and World Maker Faire.
Film and television
Since 1997 Peter has worked on special effects for film and television, more recently as SFX supervisor through Mechatrons FX. Credits include Vikings, Good Omens, Top Gear: Apocalypse, Fate: The Winx Saga, Bad Sisters, Shelter, Other Mommy and The Galway Bay Murders. For Going Dutch, Mechatrons built RUXO, a full-size working bomb disposal robot character, from the art department’s sketch of the director’s brief. He was also one of the fixers on RTÉ’s Big Life Fix, the series in which engineers and designers build bespoke solutions for people facing everyday challenges.
The full list of credits is on the Mechatrons FX filmography and on IMDb.
Research
Peter holds a PhD in computer science. At Trinity College Dublin he researched and lectured in 3D computer vision and augmented reality. At Dublin City University, through the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, he carried out research in neuroscience, working on brain-computer interfaces and EEG.
At Maynooth University he was part of the Smart Hangar research team, working with the Irish Air Corps on a cyber-physical system to assist or automate the manoeuvring of aircraft between hangar and apron, using sensors in the hangar to build a 3D model of the scene, path planning, and a cooperative interface between the human operator and the robot controller.
He also built Callan-01, a field robot platform for Maynooth University’s Automating Regenerative Agriculture (AURA) project, which is developing robotic and sensing systems to support regenerative agriculture on a one-hectare site on the university campus.
Selected publications
Redmond, P., Fleury, A. and Ward, T. (2026). VEOS: vision-based vertical electrooculography inference from monocular periocular video for ocular artefact suppression in EEG. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 12(4), 045018. doi:10.1088/2057-1976/ae83bb
Mohamed, M. A., O’Connor, N. E. and Redmond, P. (2025). In-depth analysis of the most indicative features for detecting microsleeps from EEG signals. SSRN preprint. doi:10.2139/ssrn.5169927
Farooq, A., Creagh, T. J., Mooney, E. P., Attard, C. and Redmond, P. (2025). ClusterBot: an innovative strategy introduced in the IEEE R8 Robotics Championship 2024. 2nd International Conference of Advanced Technology in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (ICATEEE 2025), M’Sila, Algeria.
Redmond, P., Awais, M. A. and Ward, T. (2024). Ethical and GDPR-compliant sharing of multimodal stress data: contributions to environmental and health research. Joint Conference of ISEH, ICEPH and ISEG 2024.
Redmond, P., Awais, M. A. and Ward, T. (2023). Inferring EOG signal from video. MEG United Kingdom and Ireland Conference 2023, pp. 29-30.
Redmond, P., Awais, M. A. and Ward, T. (2023). Automatic tagging of BCI artefacts using computer vision. Proceedings of the 10th International BCI Meeting.
Redmond, P., Fleury, A. and Ward, T. E. (2022). An open source multi-modal data-acquisition platform for experimental investigation of blended control of scale vehicles. IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, AI and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), Rome.
Redmond, P., Yous, S. and Lacey, G. (2015). Method and system for recovery of 3D scene structure and camera motion from a video sequence. US Patent 9,196,054.
Redmond, P., Yous, S. and Lacey, G. (2009). Full self-calibration of non-overlapping cameras. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2009).
A full list is on ORCID.
Speaking and outreach
Peter speaks on robotics, invention and engineering, and has taken part in outreach events including Dublin Maker and the Kildare Science Festival.
He is an active member of Toastmasters International and in 2025 won the District 71 Humorous Speech Contest. Toastmasters groups its clubs into districts, and District 71 covers Ireland and most of the United Kingdom. The district title is decided at a final between the winners of earlier club, area and division rounds.
Outside work
Peter is a pilot and a scuba diver, and trains in Shotokan karate.
In the media
Gearing up with Robo Riots’ Peter Redmond, TechCentral (2022)
Peter Redmond on RTÉ’s Big Life Fix, Insight Centre
Peter Redmond brings Robo Riots to Ireland AM, Insight Centre (2023)
R2D2, a Dalek and Robot Wars descend on the RDS, Silicon Republic
Elsewhere
Wikipedia · IMDb · ORCID · LinkedIn · Instagram · X · Facebook
For work enquiries, contact Mechatrons.