You are cordially invited to a talk by Edward Tunstel, entitled “Robotics: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Utility Now and Later” on Wednesday, September 14th from 6:30 – 7:30 PM in Namm 119, City Tech | CUNY, at 300 Jay Street in Brooklyn. This event is hosted by the college and the National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural History of Digital Technologies Colloquium.

Dr. Tunstel is a Senior Roboticist in the Research & Exploratory Development Department of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and has also served as space robotics & autonomous control lead in its Space Sector. He joined APL in 2007 after 18 years at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on the NASA Mars Exploration Rovers mission as both a flight systems engineer responsible for autonomous surface navigation and as Rover Engineering Team lead for the mobility and robotic arm subsystems, which involved him in the daily performance assessment, planning, and operations of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers during their first four years on Mars. He is now engaged in robotics and autonomy research enabling next generation robotic systems and human-robot collaborative teams for future national security and space applications.

This event is free and open to the public.