Russ Tedrake

Russ Tedrake is the Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Center for Robotics at CSAIL. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Walden Robotics, having previously served as Senior Vice President of Large Behavior Models at the Toyota Research Institute. He is best known for his research merging control theory and machine learning for robotic manipulation and locomotion, his leadership of the open-source robotics toolkit Drake, and his online textbooks Underactuated Robotics and Robotic Manipulation.