Stanford Robotics Club
Student robotics organization at Stanford University
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Stanford Robotics Club is a student robotics organization at Stanford University.[1] The club was founded in 2012 by Eric Smalls.[2] It received media coverage in 2013 for hosting a drone hackathon at Stanford during National Robotics Week,[3] and in 2019 for the development of Stanford Doggo, an open-source quadrupedal robot created by the club's Extreme Mobility team.[4][5]
- Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
| Formation | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Type | Student organization |
| Location |
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| Affiliations | Stanford University |
History
According to The Stanford Daily, Smalls founded the club after arriving at Stanford and finding that the university did not have a student robotics club.[6] Students petitioned to establish the organization as a voluntary student organization in October 2012, and the application was accepted in December 2012.[6] The same report stated that, within three months of its founding, the club had grown to 65 active members.[6]
In April 2013, the club hosted a two-day AR Drone hackathon at Stanford University. IEEE Spectrum described the event as one of the earliest U.S. National Robotics Week events.[7]
Projects
In 2019, members of the club's Extreme Mobility team developed Stanford Doggo, a quadrupedal robot designed to be reproducible and built largely from off-the-shelf parts.[8] The project was covered by technology publications including TechCrunch, The Verge, and Gizmodo.[8][9][10]
In 2020, TechCrunch featured Doggo and related robots from the same team in coverage of TC Sessions: Robotics + AI.[11]