Nicolas Hudson

Nicolas Hudson is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics, a position held since 2021. Previously, they served as a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, where they were the Principal Investigator for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Team and led a team researching robotic capabilities. Nicolas has also worked as a Senior Roboticist at both Google and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and held engineering roles at X and Boston Dynamics. They earned a Bachelor of Engineering with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Canterbury and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.