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Gill A. Pratt

Gill A. Pratt is a DARPA program manager on loan from Franklin W. Olin College, where he is a professor of electrical and computer engineering. He oversees robotics research into novel mechanisms and control methods for mobility and manipulation, low-cost fabrication, human/machine collaboration, actuation, and application of neuroscience-inspired techniques to perception. He formerly directed the Leg Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.