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Scott Kuindersma I'm the senior director of robotics research at Boston Dynamics, where I lead teams working on a mix of reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, perception, and model-based control. At BD, I've led behavior development on Atlas, which we've showcased at times with demonstrations of gymnastics, parkour, dance, and both practical and impractical manipulation. Prior to BD, I was an assistant professor engineering and computer science at Harvard. I did my PhD at UMass Amherst with Andy Barto and Rod Grupen working on policy learning for robots. I did my postdoc with Russ Tedrake in the RLG @ MIT CSAIL, during which time I was also the controls lead for the MIT DARPA Robotics Challenge team. My research is about making robots do new and amazing things. I used to write academic papers, but now I make commercial robots better and occasionally give talks and make YouTube videos. Besides robot stuff, I love spending time with my amazing wife and two kids. I also like mountain biking, skiing, playing guitar, rock climbing, and riding my Triumph Thruxton. |
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