Sangbae Kim

Sangbae Kim is a South Korean robotics engineer and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, where he has led the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory since 2009. He is currently on leave from MIT and serves as a Robotics Architect at Meta, leading research and development in the company's new Robotics Studio with a focus on humanoid robotics. He is best known for developing bio-inspired robots including the MIT Cheetah series, Stickybot, Spinybot, and iSprawl, which draw on principles from biomechanics and animal locomotion to advance dynamic legged locomotion and manipulation. His work has focused on creating robotic first responders capable of operating in hazardous environments such as disaster response scenarios.