[10] He was formerly BP Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford from 1985 to 2010[11][12] and a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)[11] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1980 to 1985.

[3] He went on to study at the Australian National University, where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1970[13] for research into group theory supervised by László György Kovács.

[citation needed] He also worked with John M. Hollerbach, Tomàs Lozano-Pérez, and Matt Mason on robotics, who together published an early influential collection of articles and founded a seminal series of conferences.

[citation needed] His initial focus was on mobile robotics, where he worked closely with Huosheng Hu Jan Grothusen, Stephen Smith, Mark Jenkinson, and Ian Reid.

[citation needed] This was a collaboration with GEC Electrical Products and led in 1991 to the formation of Guidance Navigation Systems Ltd.[citation needed] The primary interest of this work was sensor data fusion and the real-time detection of obstacles in a robot vehicle's planned path, leading to a “slalom” manoeuvre to avoid it, or, if this was judged infeasible by the robot, a complete re-planning of the path to the goal.

[citation needed] Brady had begun to switch from robotics to medical imaging, specifically breast cancer, in 1989, following the death of his mother-in-law Dr. Irene Friedlander from the disease.

[20] His FRS certificate of election reads: Distinguished for his work in artificial intelligence and its application to the visual guidance of robot manipulators and vehicles.

His work on the shapes of three-dimensional surfaces imaginatively combined ideas from group theory, descriptive differential geometry and the optimal interpretation of noisy measurements.

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