Talks
Research and outreach talks on robotic manipulation, dexterous hands and wrists, and the path into engineering.
Research Talks
DexWrist at NEMS 2026
June 2026 · New England Manipulation Symposium
Presented DexWrist, a compliant, back-drivable robotic wrist for constrained and dynamic manipulation, at the New England Manipulation Symposium.
DexWrist at the RSS 2025 Dexterous Manipulation Workshop
June 2025 · Robotics: Science and Systems
Presented DexWrist at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation, including policy-rollout results on constrained tasks such as reaching into a packed fridge.
“Sumo Robots” — SpaceX
2024
An internal tech talk at SpaceX on the Caltech ME72 sumo robot project.
“Robots that Fight, Robots that Fly, and Robots that Place Dominos” — NASA JPL
2023
A talk to the JPL robotics community on combat robotics, drone design, and the ME134 domino-placing robot.
Outreach
“Robotic Hands & Wrists” — Discover Mechanical Engineering, MIT
August 2025
A research talk to roughly 30 incoming MIT first-years on why robotic hands and wrists are the current frontier in robotics: how hands are categorized, a century of designs from early prostheses to modern dexterous hands, and today’s learning-driven return of highly actuated designs. I closed on my own work with DexWrist.
Newburgh Free Academy P-TECH — Summer 2025
July 2025
I returned to Newburgh Free Academy’s P-TECH program, the one I came up through, to talk with incoming students about getting from a P-TECH associate’s degree to engineering research, framed around what I would tell my own ninth-grade self. One slide read “Tip #1: Stay busy, take every opportunity.”
Newburgh Free Academy P-TECH — Summer 2023
July 2023
I visited the summer P-TECH cohort to talk about Caltech and the path into engineering, and to answer their questions about college and careers.
P-TECH Alumni Round Table
July 2023
I joined a panel of P-TECH alumni for a Q&A with current and incoming students about the program and where it can lead.