Red Whittaker

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Who is Red Whittaker?

William L. "Red" Whittaker is a roboticist and research professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Together with the technology lead Christopher Urmson, he led Tartan Racing to its first place victory in the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge and brought Carnegie Mellon University the two million dollar prize. Previously, Whittaker also competed for the DARPA Grand Challenge placing second and third place simultaneously, in the Grand Challenge Races.

Whittaker is currently the Fredkin Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute as well as the Director of the Field Robotics Center and Chief Scientist of the Robotics Engineering Consortium, both located at the university.

He is also leading the CMU team which is competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. As the CEO and CSO of Astrobotic Technology, Whittaker will play an instrumental role in further lunar development.

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Also known as
  • William Whittaker
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Education
  • Princeton University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
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  • Carnegie Mellon University

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on July 23, 2013

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