Nicholas Paine
Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; holds B.S./M.S./Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin and worked on the NASA-JSC DARPA Robotics Challenge team designing actuators for the Valkyrie robot.
Nicholas Paine co-founded Apptronik in 2016 and serves as its CTO. His UT Austin graduate research focused on the UT Series Elastic Actuator, a compact high-performance robotic actuator, and he was a member of the NASA Johnson Space Center/DARPA Robotics Challenge team that designed series-elastic actuators and actuator-level controllers for the Valkyrie humanoid robot before co-founding Apptronik.
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- Co-founder & CTO, Apptronik
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- Austin, TX
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- Who is Nicholas Paine?
- Nicholas Paine co-founded Apptronik in 2016 and serves as its CTO. His UT Austin graduate research focused on the UT Series Elastic Actuator, a compact high-performance robotic actuator, and he was a member of the NASA Johnson Space Center/DARPA Robotics Challenge team that designed series-elastic actuators and actuator-level controllers for the Valkyrie humanoid robot before co-founding Apptronik.
- What is Nicholas Paine's role?
- Nicholas Paine is Co-founder & CTO, Apptronik, based in Austin, TX.
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Nicholas Paine is co-founder and CTO of Apptronik, with a UT Austin Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and NASA-JSC DARPA Robotics Challenge team experience designing actuators for the Valkyrie robot
The Daily Texan: UT alumni lead humanoid robotics company ApptronikVerified2018-09-14