Nicholas Paine

At a glance. Nicholas Paine is listed as Co-founder and CTO at Apptronik. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Robotics and Chips and hardware. The source lists 1 official page and open-role pages for Apptronik.

Summary

Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; worked on actuators for NASA's Valkyrie humanoid robot.

Known for: UT Series Elastic Actuator; Apollo humanoid robot.

Works at

• Apptronik 2 people in the wiki

Other documented roles

Not confirmed as current in the source profile.

• Team member who helped design series elastic actuators and actuator-level controllers for the Valkyrie robot, NASA-JSC DARPA Robotics Challenge team
• Postdoctoral researcher (one year) on forced-convective motor cooling and embedded system design, University of Texas at Austin

Open roles

• Open roles at Apptronik on USASI ↗

Related people

• Jeff CardenasAlso at Apptronik
• Satish JeyachandranChips and hardware · Robotics
• Andrew BosworthChips and hardware
• Sudeep BhojaChips and hardware
• Aaron TeoChips and hardware
• Jeff ClarkeChips and hardware
• Tekedra MawakanaRobotics
• Ramin HasaniRobotics
• Deepak PathakRobotics
• Jim FanRobotics

Source and corrections

Read the full profile on USASI ↗

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