26-year-old Nigerian, Silas Adekunle, has reportedly become the World’s highest paid Robotic engineer.

He is also described as the smartest robotics engineer in the world.

The young robotics guru who was also named as “Someone to Watch in 2018” by the Black Hedge Fund Group achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the most valuable publicly-traded enterprise in the world, Apple Inc.

Adekunle was born and had some of his education in Nigeria before relocating to the UK when he was a teenager. Having completed his secondary school education, he proceeded to the University of the West of England where he graduated with a first class graduate in Robotics.

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Adekunle is currently the founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, a company developing the world’s first gaming robots.

In 2013, he founded Reach Robotics and developed a lot of experience on robotics within a space of four years.

Adekunle was also a team leader of Robotics In Schools programme, a programme which encourages and pays attention to students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The programme encouraged him to develop robotics to make education more entertaining for STEM students. In 2017, MekaMon, he released the world’s first gaming robot, with the special ability to customise the gaming bot to perform personalised functions.

According to the Guardian, the initial launch of Mekamon sold 500 bots, generating $7.5 million.

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Following this feat, Adekunle received support from various organisations including London Venture Partners ($10 million) and in the same year, his company, Reach Robotics signed a deal with Apple securing exclusive sales in Apple stores.