Stanford Robotics Club

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]

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]