The Ballbot Always Wins

The origin story of ROB311, a robot that balances on top of a basketball.

Hello there! I’m a PhD student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, working with Prof. Elliott Rouse in the Neurobionics Lab. My research focuses on robot codesign: how a robot’s mechanical design and control policy can co-evolve inside simulation instead of being engineered one after the other.

Before starting my PhD, I led the Open-Source Leg hardware and software ecosystem—now used by more than 25 research groups worldwide.

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