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Kod*lab 2010-2017 Avik De Co-founder & CTO, Ghost Robotics Previously: Postdoc @ Harvard, Ph.D. @ UPenn, B.S./M.S. @ JHU

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Mentorship, outreach, collaboration 2012 2010

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Lab hardware culture; freedom to explore 2013-2014

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A family of direct drive robots April 2015 2013

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Build educational robots? ~2015

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Build bigger robots? ~2015 Capitalize on direct drive revolution in washing machines? Motor controllers with active cooling? Minitaur → Megataur?

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Even in talk slides in 2022, some things never change… (Collectively) carrying the torch at Ghost Robotics today