The Mechanics of Robot Grasping - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elon Rimon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He has also been a Visiting Associate Faculty member at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Rimon was a finalist for the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1994 and 1996, for the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics in 2014 and 2016, and awarded best paper presentation at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference in 2013.

Joel Burdick is the the Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and the Feynman fellowship. He has been a finalist for the best paper award for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1993, 1999, 2000, 2005, and 2016. Professor Burdick received the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough award in 2011.