UA Engineering Robotics Whizz Named Student of the Year
Electrical and computer engineering graduate Matt Bunting is named student of the year at the Annual Creativity in Electronics awards for his design of a six-legged robot.
Matt Bunting in the UA Robotics and Neural Systems Lab, holding the hexapod robot that has created a huge buzz among robotics fans. To the right of the picture is his ACE award for student of the year. A protoype of Bunting's latest project, robotic cheetah legs, can be seen lower left. (Photo: Pete Brown)
The ACE awards were held May 4 in Palo Alto, Calif., and organized by Electronic Engineering Times, a leading industry publication with more than 500,000 subscribers worldwide.
Bunting's hexapod robot has been wowing robotics fans and the electronics industry since he built it as a class project in 2009 while still an undergraduate in electrical and computer engineering.
Bunting graduated in 2010, and is still in electrical and computer engineering on a direct-to-PhD program with a robotics focus. "I'm interested in robot locomotion that emulates biological movement," Bunting said. "And in doing more work on robotic vision."