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Avik De
May 31, 2022
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This talk was given at Dan Koditschek's festschrift
Avik De
May 31, 2022
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Transcript
Kod*lab 2010-2017 Avik De Co-founder & CTO, Ghost Robotics Previously:
Postdoc @ Harvard, Ph.D. @ UPenn, B.S./M.S. @ JHU
Mentorship, outreach, collaboration 2012 2010
Lab hardware culture; freedom to explore 2013-2014
A family of direct drive robots April 2015 2013
Build educational robots? ~2015
Build bigger robots? ~2015 Capitalize on direct drive revolution in
washing machines? Motor controllers with active cooling? Minitaur → Megataur?
Even in talk slides in 2022, some things never change…
(Collectively) carrying the torch at Ghost Robotics today