Bradley Nelson

Bradley J. Nelson
Born	(1962-05-16) 16 May 1962
Nationality	American
Citizenship	Switzerland, United States of America
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
Fields	Robotics
Institutions	ETH Zurich
Website	msrl.ethz.ch

Brad Nelson (born 16 May 1962) is a roboticist and entrepreneur. He has been the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich since 2002 and is known for his research in micro robotics, nano robotics, and medical robotics. He is a co-founder of Femtotools AG, Aeon Scientific AG, OphthoRobotics AG, Magnes AG, and MagnebotiX AG.

Education

• Ph.D. in Robotics (Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science), Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1987
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University Honors/Bronze Tablet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984

Honors and awards

Professor Nelson has over thirty years of experience in the field of robotics and has received a number of awards for his work in robotics, nanotechnology and biomedicine. His research group has won more than a dozen best paper awards at various international conferences and in international journals.

• 2016 European Research Council Advanced Grant
• 2015 T-ASE Best New Application Paper Award, IEEE CASE
• 2014 First Place: Mobile Robot Challenge Award, ICRA
• 2014 Best Medical Robotics Paper Award, ICRA
• 2013 Journal of Laboratory Automation Ten Award, JALA Ten
• 2012 Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Advanced Mini Robot for Medical Use."
• 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant
• 2011 IEEE Fellow
• 2010 ASME Fellow
• 2009 First Place: RoboCup Nanogram Soccer
• 2007 First Place: RoboCup Nanogram Soccer
• 2005 Named to the "Scientific American 50" Scientific American

See also

• Raffaello D'Andrea
• Roland Siegwart
• Vijay Kumar (roboticist)

External links

Talks & media

• MSRL on CNN's segment "Make - Create - Innovate"
• TEDx Zurich, 2012
• TV appearance "NOVA Making Stuff Smaller", 2011