ABSTRACT
Good leadership and management are needed even more for brainy teams than ones that face simple tasks and where simple obedience and adherence to procedure is the order of the day. In particular scientists are good at unvarnished conversations that sometimes pay little heed to the emotional lives of their fellow team members. Views of leadership have changed over the ages, from ideas about war propounded by Sun Tzu and Machiavelli's treatment via The Prince which focused on questions of influence and manipulation, through to the beginnings of a psychological approach around 100 years ago. q-bot develops intelligent tools for the built environment, that turn difficult, disruptive and dirty jobs into clean, efficient and safe processes. With q-bot, a robot can be inserted through an air vent, deploy within the void and, without even the need to enter the property, apply insulation to the underside of the floorboards.
