Hanumant Singh (roboticist)

Hanumant Singh (born c. 1965) is an American robotics engineer, professor, and pioneer in underwater and field robotics. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, with a courtesy appointment in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and affiliation with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He also holds the title of Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Singh serves as Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society's Technology Committee on Autonomous Marine Systems and is the director of the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern.

Singh is best known for developing the SeaBED-class autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), including the Seabed, Jaguar, and Puma vehicles, which have been deployed worldwide for scientific exploration in extreme environments including the Arctic Ocean, Antarctic waters, and deep-sea archaeological sites. His robots were the first to be deployed and recovered through ice to the deep ocean (over 3,500 meters) for scientific research.