Brandon Shrewsbury
Chief Robotics Engineer at Foundation Robotics Labs
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Shrewsbury is a chief robotics engineer with 13 years of experience designing high-performance legged and humanoid robots, currently leading hardware development at Foundation Robotics. His career includes hands-on roles with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, NASA’s Valkyrie R5, the DARPA Robotics Challenge with IHMC, and building self-balancing interactive robots at Walt Disney Imagineering. He balances systems-level leadership—having served as CTO and CEO of Boardwalk Robotics—with deep controls and field engineering expertise gained from military service as a 7234 Air Control Operator. Brandon’s academic work in assistive technologies and rehabilitation robotics complements his practical focus, revealing a recurring interest in human-centered applications of advanced hardware. Known for tangible problem-solving (he’s an expert at restringing tendons and field ops logistics), he brings a mix of gritty hands-on skills and strategic vision to tackle physically and computationally hard robotics problems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Georgia Institute of Technology(Unfinished) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, (Unfinished) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of West Georgia
Github Skills (28)
webots10
robotics10
gazebosim10
controller10
trajectory-generation10
java10
dynamics10
robot10
robotics-simulation10
ros10
momentum10
optimization10
simulation6
sensor5
simulations4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
btshrewsbury/schooldU
Dec 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 5 months
ihmcrobotics/ihmc-open-robotics-software
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
Robotics software featuring legged locomotion algorithms and a momentum-based controller core with optimization. Supporting software for world-class robots including humanoids, running birds, exoskeletons, mechs and more.
Contributions:1641 commits in 9 years 5 months
robotics-simulationcontrollerlocomotionwalkingihmc
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