Avik De

Avik is co-founder and CTO of Ghost Robotics, a startup company commercializing legged robotics in Philadelphia. The company currently has two products, a 45kg quadruped aimed at industrial applications, and a 12kg quadruped aimed at research applications.

Previously, Avik completed a postdoc at Harvard SEAS and a PhD at the GRASP laboratory in the University of Pennsylvania studying methods for the design and control of bio-inspired robot locomotion. At Ghost Robotics, he is responsible for the overall hardware and software architecture of the robots and the algorithms used for their mobility.