Robert Katzschmann

Robert Katzschmann
Robert Katzschmann
Citizenship	Germany
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); Stanford University (MS thesis); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Diplom-Ingenieur);
Known for	SoFi (soft robotic fish); Vision-controlled jetting for 3D printing; Soft robotic manipulators;
	Scientific career
Fields	Soft robotics; Machine learning;
Thesis	Building and Controlling Fluidically Actuated Soft Robots: From Open Loop to Model-based Control (2018)
Doctoral advisor	Daniela Rus
Website	robert.katzschmann.de

Robert K. Katzschmann is a German roboticist and professor of robotics at ETH Zurich, where he heads the Soft Robotics Lab. He led the development of SoFi, an autonomous soft robotic fish described in "Science Robotics" in 2018, which was covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, BBC, National Geographic, and other international outlets. He has been a TED Fellow since 2022.