Alan N. Federman, PhD

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I was always into computers and electronics, working on DEC PDP 11s, CP/M etc. I got involved with robotics starting in 1999 as part of the NASA Robotics Education Project. Mostly web based sites and projects to inspire young people to become robotics engineers and scientists. In 2000, my High School team from East San Jose won the FIRST National Championship. I started attending HBRC meeting in the early 2000s.

I’ve been involved with SV-ROS, which won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, and finished second in the NASA Rover Sample Recovery Challenge. I’ve been a principle integration engineer for Ubiquity Robotics, and worked as a robot wrangler for Savioke and most recently at the Stanford AI Lab on the Jackrabbot and Toyota HSR. The photo above was taken in 1999, is of Marsokhod, a Russian designed rover being tested for astronaut/robot collaboration on future NASA missions. A fun fact – I worked with Dave Calkins, the founder of Robot Games as a judge for the original Battlebots TV show.