Headshot of Professor Rosendo
Email
arosendo@wpi.edu
Office
Unity Hall 277
Phone
+1 (508) 8316178
Affiliated Department or Office
Education
B.Eng Mechanical Engineering, Bahia Federal University, Brazil 2008
M.S. Information Science, Hokkaido University, Japan 2011
Ph.D. Information Science, Osaka University, Japan 2014
Postdoc Engineering, University of Cambridge 2017

I deeply enjoy teaching courses where students combine theoretical components to a practical application. I have been a faculty at ShanghaiTech University, China, for five years, where I created syllabi and taught two courses on Robotics for over four years. 

While in China I organized outreach activities, teaching Scratch programming to children from low-income neighborhoods in Shanghai. Here in WPI my MQPs usually combine machine learning algorithms with robots and manipulators, or cool/innovative inventions that my students may have! 

I focus on the design of robots and soft robots, and on the application of learning algorithms to efficiently search control parameters for soft manipulators and legged/whegged robots.

Headshot of Professor Rosendo
Email
arosendo@wpi.edu
Affiliated Department or Office
Education
B.Eng Mechanical Engineering, Bahia Federal University, Brazil 2008
M.S. Information Science, Hokkaido University, Japan 2011
Ph.D. Information Science, Osaka University, Japan 2014
Postdoc Engineering, University of Cambridge 2017

I deeply enjoy teaching courses where students combine theoretical components to a practical application. I have been a faculty at ShanghaiTech University, China, for five years, where I created syllabi and taught two courses on Robotics for over four years. 

While in China I organized outreach activities, teaching Scratch programming to children from low-income neighborhoods in Shanghai. Here in WPI my MQPs usually combine machine learning algorithms with robots and manipulators, or cool/innovative inventions that my students may have! 

I focus on the design of robots and soft robots, and on the application of learning algorithms to efficiently search control parameters for soft manipulators and legged/whegged robots.

Office
Unity Hall 277
Phone
+1 (508) 8316178
TechXplore
A transformable robot with an omnidirectional wheel-leg

TechXplore featured the research of Robotics Engineering Assistant Teaching Professor Andre Rosendo. Along with student Ruixiang Cao, Rosendo created a robot that can seamlessly change its wheels to legs and back again. The development allows the robot to navigate uneven terrain, or climb stairs.