This talk was given at Dan Koditschek's festschrift
Kod*lab 2010-2017Avik DeCo-founder & CTO, Ghost RoboticsPreviously: Postdoc @ Harvard, Ph.D. @ UPenn, B.S./M.S. @ JHU
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