Kevin Doherty
I’m a robotics researcher at Boston Dynamics where I work on perception and state estimation for the Atlas humanoid robot. My primary focus is on the research and development of new perception technologies to support Atlas’ abilities to perform complex bimanual manipulation tasks. Some of the cool stuff I’ve worked on is featured in videos like Atlas Goes Hands On and HD Atlas Manipulates.
Previously, I completed my PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the AeroAstro department, as part of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. At MIT, I was a member of the Marine Robotics Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), where I was advised by John Leonard. My doctoral thesis work focused on developing new methods to improve the robustness and efficiency of mapping and localization systems. My work was supported in part by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Before my PhD, I was an undergraduate student at Stevens Institute of Technology where I did research on robot mapping in the Robust Field Autonomy Lab under Brendan Englot.
