Martin Buehler, PhD
Chief Principal Investigator
Director, Research Competency
iRobot Corporation
8 Crosby Drive, M/S 8-1
Bedford, MA 01730
Work: mbuehler (at) irobot (dot) com
Personal: mxbuehler (at) gmail (dot) com
Martin Buehler is a technology leader with 20 years industrial and academic experience in developing and managing robotics technology and leading high tech teams. His expertise is in robot manipulation, mobile and legged robots, high risk R&D and DARPA projects, robotic technologies, technology management, strategic project planning, and team leadership.
Buehler grew up in the rural Black Forest region of southern Germany, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985 and 1990. After a PostDoc at MIT's leglab, he became a professor at McGill University in 1991, with tenure since in 1997. His research focused on sensor based, dynamic grasping, direct drive motor control, and legged robots. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director of Robotics at Boston Dynamics.
Martin Buehler served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Robotics Research. Currently he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Field Robotics. Buehler was invited keynote or plenary speaker at robotics conferences, has over 100 publications on legged robots, dynamic manipulation and direct drive control, and has supervised over 30 graduate students at McGill.
