Brandon Araki

Brandon Araki has a diverse work experience in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. Brandon started their career as a Research Intern at Yale University and later became the President and Co-Founder of a student organization. Brandon then worked as a Research Assistant at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where they designed a valve for soft robotics. Brandon also had research internships at the Carnegie Institution and Yale University's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

In 2015, Brandon joined the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a Master's Student and later pursued a Ph.D. degree. Their thesis focused on the design and control of miniature air-and-ground vehicles. Brandon developed the Flying Monkey, a small robot capable of running, flying, and grasping objects. Additionally, they designed a drone that could fly and drive, and developed multi-robot path planning algorithms for coordinating their movements.

From 2021 to 2023, Brandon worked as a Research Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute. Currently, they hold the position of Principal Robotics Engineer at Symbotic, where they continue to contribute their expertise in the field of robotics.

Brandon Araki completed their education with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the years 2017 to 2021. Before that, they pursued a Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT between 2015 and 2017. Their undergraduate studies were conducted at Yale University, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical) from 2010 to 2014.