Nicolas Hudson

Nicolas Hudson, Ph.D. is a member of the Mobility and Manipulation Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He received his Masters in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively, and a Bachelor in Engineering degree from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2002. He received the Sir William Pickering Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology and the Ian McMillan Prize and C.S. McCully Scholarship at the University of Canterbury. His primary areas of research at JPL are robotic autonomy for mobile manipulation and sample acquisition.