Rob Drewett

Rob Drewett is a British wildlife cameraman and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief executive of Motion Impossible, a UK company that develops remote camera platforms, and the co-developer (with product design engineer Andy Nancollis) of the AGITO modular robotic camera dolly system for film and television production.^[2][3] In 2025, Drewett and Nancollis were named recipients of the Television Academy's Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for the development of the AGITO Dolly System.^[1][4][5][6]

Rob Drewett
Occupations	Wildlife cameraman; technology entrepreneur
Years active	2000s–present
Organization(s)	Motion Impossible (co-founder and CEO)
Known for	Co-developing the AGITO modular robotic camera dolly system
Awards	Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award (2025)[1]

Career

Drewett began his career as an underwater and wildlife cameraman, including work with the BBC Natural History Unit on series such as Planet Earth II and Africa.^[7] Seeking new ways to move cameras safely and smoothly, he experimented early with gimbals and remote platforms.^[7]

In 2014 Drewett co-founded Motion Impossible with product design engineer Andy Nancollis to commercialise remote, stabilised camera systems that evolved from their wildlife work, including the Mantis (later the M-Series) and the AGITO family of modular dollies.^[2][3]

Drewett has used AGITO on broadcast and entertainment productions where crew safety and repeatable camera movement are priorities, including Top Gear sequences that require high-speed tracking shots.^[8]

Motion Impossible

Drewett co-founded Motion Impossible in 2014 with product design engineer Andy Nancollis to commercialise remote, stabilised camera systems developed from their natural history work, evolving from the BuggyCam into the Mantis/M-Series and, in 2019, the modular AGITO dolly family (including the Sports, Trax and MagTrax drive-ends).^[9][10] The MagTrax guidance system had its U.S. launch at the NAB Show in April 2022 in partnership with Vū Studios and AbelCine, with Drewett describing it as a key step for AGITO operability.^[11] His systems have been adopted on broadcast and drama sets; for example, AGITO was used to stage a major stunt in Line of Duty series 6 and to capture high-speed tracking shots on Top Gear while improving crew safety.^[12][13]

Patents

• Support and stabilization systems (Motion Impossible Ltd). Inventors: Andrew Nancollis; Robert (Rob) Drewett. International publication date 23 May 2019.^[14]
• Support and stabilization systems (Motion Impossible Ltd). Inventors: Andrew Nancollis; Robert (Rob) Drewett. US patent granted 28 December 2021.^[15]

Selected credits

Year	Title	Role / notes	Ref(s)
2011	Desert Seas	Selected to work on the documentary with the BBC Natural History Unit.	[16]
2013	Africa	Filmed a rock python sequence; used moving camera techniques.	[16]
2014	Hidden Kingdoms	Credited among series photographers.	[17]
2016	Planet Earth II	Shot the Madagascar locust super-swarm sequence using a handheld gimbal.	[18][19]
2018	Big Cats	Filmed high-speed cheetah tracking shots with a remote buggy and stabilised head (with Andy Nancollis).	[20][21]
2020s	Top Gear	Cameraman operating the head while AGITO captured high-speed sequences (e.g., Aston Martin Victor at Dunsfold).	[13][22]

AGITO

AGITO is a modular robotic dolly platform designed to operate free-roaming, on track, overhead or guided by magnetic tape (MagTrax), providing stabilised, repeatable moves from very slow to vehicle speeds in studio and location environments.^[23][24][25] The system has been profiled and demonstrated widely at industry shows including NAB, IBC and Cine Gear.^[3]

Awards and honours

• 2025: Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award (Television Academy), shared with Andy Nancollis, for the development of the AGITO Dolly System.^{[1][4][6][26]}

See also

• Camera dolly
• Motion control photography