United StatesRed Whittaker
William L. 'Red' Whittaker is an American roboticist and research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Fredkin Research Professor at the Robotics Institute and director of the Field Robotics Center. A pioneer of field robotics, he led the team that built robots to inspect and repair the damaged Three Mile Island reactor basement, work that led to the founding of CMU's Field Robotics Center. He founded Astrobotic in 2007 with associates from Carnegie Mellon, initially to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize, spinning the company out of his lunar-robotics research to commercialize planetary landers and rovers.
