Ph.D. thesis on modularity in robotics

Defense completed

I completed my Ph.D. at Penn on the topic of modularity in robotics. As I talked about

Power-efficient and safe mobile robots

Two of the main papers on this thread are discussed in other articles here:

Jerboa the hopping robot

Minitaur bounding, pronking using vertical hopper compositions

Here is a poor-quality GoPro video of my defense:

I’m going to stay at Penn as a postdoc for a little bit while simultaneously working with Ghost Robotics.