Fall 2009 GRASP Seminar: Martin Buehler, IRobot Corporation, “Mobile Robots that Make a Difference – on the Ground, Under Water, and in the Research Lab”

Dr. Martin Buehler is the Chief Roboticist and a Research Principal
Investigator in the research group at iRobot Corporation. From
2003-2008, he was the Director of Robotics at Boston Dynamics, and
Chief Engineer for the BigDog project. From 1991 to 2003, he was an
Assistant, then an Associate Professor with tenure at McGill
University. His research focused on legged robots, sensor based dynamic
grasping, and direct drive motor control. Buehler grew up in the
rural Black Forest region of southern Germany, and studied electrical
engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. He received the M.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1985
and 1990. After a PostDoc at MIT’s leglab, he joined McGill University
in 1991 as an NSERC Junior Industrial Research Chair and a Scholar of
the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Buehler has served as an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Robotics
Research. Currently he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Field
Robotics, and serves on the Advisory Board of the International Journal
of Robotics Research. He has over 100 publications on mobile robots,
manipulation and motor control, co-edited the 2007 Springer book on the
DARPA Grand Challenge, and the upcoming 2009 Springer book on the DARPA
Urban Challenge.