Distinguished Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh Joins the Advisory Board of RoboDynamics Corporation
RoboDynamics announced today the addition of Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh to its Advisory Board.
Santa Monica, CA and Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) March 5, 2009 -- Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh, the current head of the Robotics Masters Program and director of the CREATE lab at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is joining the Advisory Board of RoboDynamics Corporation. Dr. Nourbakhsh brings an impressive wealth of academic, technical and entrepreneurial experience from a distinguished career spent in robotics.
"It is not every day that you get to have someone of Illah's caliber on your team" said Fred Nikgohar, CEO of RoboDynamics. "I am thrilled to have his mentorship and advice as we deliver one of the most exciting robotics products in recent years".
"Robotic Telepresence will be one of the earliest and most important killer applications for the new breed of human-interactive mobile robots that will define a new technological market, and RoboDynamics is well positioned to be a pioneering company in this space" said Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh. "I am pleased to be a part of this great company."
Dr. Nourbakhsh has a long and distinguished career in the robotics field. Prior to his current position, Dr. Nourbakhsh served as Robotics Group Lead at NASA/Ames Research Center, is the co-founder of Toy Robots Initiative, director of Center for Innovative Robotics, and the director of the CREATE lab at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a PI on several projects including Gigapan and Robot 250, a NSF-funded initiative. Aside from numerous publications and authoring text books in the field of robotics, Illah has also co-founded and/or held executive positions at several technology startup companies, most recently at Blue Pumpkin Software. Dr. Nourbakhsh has a PhD from Stanford University in Computer Science.
ABOUT ROBODYNAMICS CORPORATION
RoboDynamics is an innovative robotics company that focuses on enterprise and industrial Robotic Telepresence. We have a world class team of engineers with deep expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence, electronics, and mechanics. Our process is to begin with the customer, conduct world class R&D to create revolutionary technology, and culminate it all into a unique product that changes the paradigm of collaboration across the enterprise and industrial landscape. Our mission is to leverages state of the art robotic technologies to change the way people live and work. For more information please visit http://robodynamics.com.
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