Bradley Nelson
Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich.
Brad Nelson has been the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zürich since 2002, where his research focuses on microrobotics and nanorobotics. Fundamentally, he is interested in how to make tiny intelligent machines that are millimeters to nanometers in size.
He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota, worked as a computer vision researcher at Honeywell and a software engineer at Motorola, served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, Africa, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota before moving to ETH.
Visit website: https://msrl.ethz.ch/the-lab/team/Brad_Nelson.html
See also: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) - Public research university for technology and science
Details last updated 12-Feb-2020
Bradley Nelson News
Micro-robot Delivers Drugs in Capsules
Business Korea - 23-May-2018
The robot is capsule-shaped, hollow and has propellants that mimic bacterial movements
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