Gautam Narang (MRSD ’15) co-founded Gatik in 2017, and he is the CEO. In August 2021, Gatik became the first autonomous trucking company worldwide to operate fully driverless, middle-mile commercial deliveries. The company makes daily runs on a fixed, repeatable route for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, delivering customer orders from a dark store to a [...]
The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (known as IROS) recently accepted the paper Adaptive Informative Sampling with Environment Partitioning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems submitted by four MRSD alumni from the graduating Class of 2020. Team G, comprised of Yunfei Shi, Ning Wang, Yang Zhang, & Jianmin Zheng, worked hard for all of 2019 [...]
This spring MRSD students from the Class of 2020 successfully competed in the MBZ International Robotics Competition. The competition took place in Abu Dhabi and involved multiple challenges that tested the state of the art of unpersonned aerial vehicle (UAVs) interacting with their surroundings. Team R.A.M.S achieved 4th place out of 19 teams in the aerial block [...]
2016 MRSD alumna Aishanou Rait works at Starsky Robotics, a San Francisco-based start-up focused on self-driving trucks. They recently featured her in an employee spotlight interview, where Aishanou explains her entrance into the field of robotics from her personal point of view as a female. She also outlines what life is like at a busy [...]
Co-Founders Reese Mozer (MRSD ’15, CEO) and Eitan Babcock (MRSD ’16, Chief Roboticist) of American Robotics, a Boston-based start-up focused on developing automated industrial drones, continue to find success. AR has raised $6.5 million in total funding thus far to support expansion of the team and further development of its pilotless drone technology. The successful [...]
2015 MRSD alumnus Stephen Smith has recently been named the Chief Technology Office (CTO) of TerrAvion. TerrAvion is the largest volume subscription provider of aerial imagery in the US. They do 100 times more imagery than the entire electric drone industry and handle more data than the top 10 satellite imagery services combined. Subscription aerial imagery allows the [...]
2016 MRSD alumnus Rohit Dashrathi founded Rucha Yantra LLP. Yantra is a tech start-up based in India that is working to solve the problems in the field of material handling with Mobile Robotics – or as they call it, “Mobotics.” An R&D organization by nature, Yantra specializes in indigenous designing and development, as well as manufacturing [...]
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2013 MRSD alumnus Mingche Su has co-founded BitTiger, an online learning platform that provides quick, effective, and affordable training in practical skills that prepare students to be as productive as possible in their current and future jobs.
Starsky Robotics CEO and co-founder Stefan Seltz-Axmacher wants to solve the primary logistical challenge for the trucking industry by taking drivers off the road and putting them in an office. Starsky Robotics is a self-driving truck startup. But its business model and approach is unlike other self-driving truck companies like Embark and Otto that have [...]
