Logan Farrell

Logan Farrell is the Co-Founder and CTO at Rugged Robotics. Previously, they worked as a robotics engineer at NASA for over five years. During their time at NASA, Farrell led a team of eight with a budget of 2.5 million dollars to develop technologies necessary for robotic manipulation onboard spacecraft with minimal communication. Logan also lead a team of three in developing a software package to enable generic encoding of manipulation tasks for dexterous robots. In addition, Farrell lead a team of four spanning three projects in developing software for task automation for the Robonaut 2 system. The focus of the software was for robotics that work in the same spaces as humans, and to give the robots the ability to perceive, understand, and decide on courses of actions for manipulation tasks. Farrell also lead the development of walking and manipulation algorithms for the Robonaut 2 project for mobility of the legged Robonaut 2 system on the International Space Station and manipulation tasks for logistics reduction. Logan has also designed, developed, and constructed a propulsion actuator for a lunar rover design that passed thermal vacuum testing for lunar polar operations as well as a prototype steering module for a human scale rover wheel module.

Logan Farrell has a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. Logan also has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Logan is currently undecided on what field they will study for their PhD at Purdue University.

Logan Farrell works with Mason Markee - VP, Engineering, Paul Valle - Director, R&D. Their manager is Derrick Morse, Founder & CEO.