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Ben Katz

Mechanical engineer and MIT alumnus (SB 2016, SM 2018) who, in MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab, built the mini cheetah's actuators from motors designed for drones. As of 2021 he was working on the Atlas humanoid at Boston Dynamics.

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  • MIT Biomimetic Robotics Labverified→
    Actuator Designer, MIT Mini Cheetah

    The MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, where Professor Sangbae Kim and his team developed the MIT Cheetah and Mini Cheetah quadrupeds, designs and controls robots usi

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  1. https://news.mit.edu/2021/cheetah-noids-humanoids-benjamin-katz-1214

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