
Nick DePalma
Graduate Student
MIT Personal Robots Group
Boston, MA USA
“If you're still thinking about [something] in the shower…that's when you love it.”
MIT Personal Robots Group
Boston, MA USA
“If you're still thinking about [something] in the shower…that's when you love it.”
Graduate Student
I build autonomous robotic systems for interaction. My focus is on perception, action, and sensorimotor architectures.
The team lands at the doorstep of the MIT Media Lab, where they speak with a graduate assistant in the robotics department. Next, they talk with two women who founded sOccket, a soccer ball that generates electricity, and the co-founder of Bamboo Bike Studio. The Roadtrippers also stop at the USA Shaolin Temple in New York City, where they meet founder Shi Yan Ming who is known for his super-human abilities-such as breaking rocks with his skull. They end the week with Nat Paynter, director of water programs at Charity Water.