Robotics Websites

Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, international tech speaker, and hardware and robot tinkerer. She learned to program in BASIC on a Commodore 64 as a child. She loves all aspects of the software creation process and enjoys problem-solving across different languages and frameworks. Sarah is passionate about the intersection of people and technology, emphasizing accessibility, usability, ethics, and inclusivity in software. She also organizes tech conferences.

Josh Vander Hook is a full-time Rust (and less-time: Python and C) software engineer specializing in planning systems. He currently works at FlightScience.ai, and has past experience in state estimation and analytics. He posts about a variety of topics including software development, civil rights, and robotics. He also maintains several external projects including KDA-tools, Highfleet Utils, Space Missions, and AENAC Devices.

Erik Schluntz is an engineer and entrepreneur with a passion for solving problems and increasing efficiency, particularly through automation. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, working on Large Language Models. Previously, he co-founded Cobalt Robotics and served as its CTO, building AI-enabled security guard robots. Earlier in his career, he worked on SpaceX’s Flight Software Team and Google[x]’s Smart Contact Lens project. Erik also founded Posmetrics, which was accepted to Y Combinator and later acquired. He graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. His interests include mountain biking, sailing, skiing, hiking, reading science fiction, playing board games, and traveling.

Jason is a computer scientist who explores fun ideas through code, animations, and simulations on his blog. His interests include swarm robotics. He has contributed to academic papers and has several projects on Github. Some of his projects include Dynamic Cluster Identification, Simulating an Economy, and a Non-Euclidean Renderer. He also has physical projects such as a quadruped robot, a Go board with addressable LEDs, and a gaming table.

Will Morrison is a mechatronics engineer who likes to make things. He is interested in procedural generation, musical instrument design, robotics, and pretty much anything that could be considered tech art. He made his website to have somewhere to document the things that he builds.

Peter Backx is a maker who documents his projects and experiments on his blog, Streamhead. He started as a tech enthusiast, playing with computers and electronics kits. He has a Master of Science and a PhD in computer science, focusing on application clusters, grids, and automation. He has experience in J2EE and web applications. After working as a consultant and helping to create a popular news site, he now runs a small SaaS for small businesses in Belgium and is interested in the maker movement, particularly 3D printing.

Long Hoang is a coder who turns beer into code. He is from Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is interested in code, connecting with others, and robots.

Alex Elias is a robotics engineer with a Ph.D. from RPI. His work centers on inverse kinematics, motion planning, and control for robot arms and mobile robots. He solves real-world problems with math. His research includes cuspidality, redundancy, and parallel mechanisms. He designed algorithms for 7-DOF elastic-joint arms to service satellites in orbit. He led development of 5 mobile robots for tent manufacturing and designed a GUI-based hybrid motion and force controller for robotic deep rolling.

David Bowen is a studio artist and educator. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including ZKM Karlsruhe, Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Eyebeam New York, Ars Electronica Linz, BOZAR Brussels, Science Gallery Dublin, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, The Cranbrook Museum of Art Detroit, Intercommunication Center Tokyo and Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. He is a two-time recipient of a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship and has received awards such as Grand Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival; Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica; and Third Prize, Vida Art and Artificial Life international competition. Bowen has been an artist in residence at Autodesk Pier 9, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Arctic Circle and has collaborated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

James Akl has expertise in robotics and AI. He is experienced in R&D and project leadership. He is skilled in software, mathematics, algorithms, system design, engineering, and testing.

Cole Wyeth is a third year PhD student at the University of Waterloo studying computer science with a focus on algorithmic information theory and sequential decision theory. His research interests include theoretical AI safety, particularly agent foundations, for which AIXI is a foundational concept. He is supervised by Professor Ming Li and advised by Professor Marcus Hutter. He holds an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is focused on preventing the rapid progress in AI from going badly and supports a pause on development of autonomous agents until the alignment problem is solved. He is an advisor to the AI safety research fund. In the past, he worked in robotics, including a machine learning internship at Dexai robotics. His hobbies include bouldering, reading, and mixed martial arts.