Our team consists of six graduate students from Carnegie Mellon’s Masters of Robotics Systems Development program working on the Amazon Picking Challenge as our capstone project. We partnered with CMU’s Search Based Planning Lab to integrate advanced perception and planning algorithms into our system.
 | Abhishek Bhatia Abhishek is primarily interested in developing embedded solutions for real world scenarios. He likes to cover the breadth of different technologies and envisions himself to be an end-to-end product developer. Prior to joining Robotics Institute at CMU, he has worked in the domain of unmanned ground vehicles, medical device development, and 3 years as an ASIC Designer at Nvidia. In his free time he likes to sit idle and rethink "the purpose of life". |
 | Alex Brinkman After designing transmissions with Caterpillar Inc. for the last 3 years, Alex is driven to make the intelligent machines of the future. Hoping to improve the public perception that robots are slow and incapable, Alex will focus on developing autonomous capabilities and grasping methods for the CMU Amazon Picking Team. |
 | Feroze Naina Feroze Naina will focus on systems integration and designing the software architecture for robot platforms. He will also be working on motion planning of the robot arm. Feroze had previously worked on projects in medical instrumentation and has contributed to open source software. |
 | Lekha Mohan Lekha's interest lies in Robot Perception and Planning. She'll be working on computer vision for the amazon picking challenge! Safe Human Robot Interaction and augmented quality of life through robotics is her vision for the future. |
 | Rick Shanor Rick's passion lies in developing cutting edge, practical mechatronic technology. Previous experience ranges from space exploration to interactive robotics to medical devices. When he is not busy building cool technology, he enjoys basketball, fishing, and scuba diving. Rick will focus on mechanism design and control for the Amazon Picking Challenge. |