Robin Deits, PhD

Robin Deits is a Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics.

Robin’s childhood obsession with Legos grew into a passion for engineering as a young adult and brought him to MIT for undergraduate studies in 2007. Although his major is in physics, Robin considers himself an engineer at heart, and pursued a PhD focused on Robotics.

In the lab, Robin has worked on applying genetic algorithm optimizations to engineering problems from robotic clams to house-sized motors. Outside of the lab, he has created (with a little help from his friends), a wide variety of unique projects, including a 60-foot-long wooden roller coaster, a programmable LED hallway lighting display system, and a ‘digital waterfall’ which displays images using drops of falling water. Robin is equally happy working in the machine shop, writing software, or wiring a circuit for some new project. In addition, he has played classical piano for over a decade, and has recently begun developing his skills as a photographer.