Nathan Kau

Nathan Kau is an undergraduate at Stanford University studying robotics and controls. In 2017 he started Extreme Mobility, a student robotics group focused on building and open-sourcing agile robots. Their first robot, Stanford Doggo, set a world record for vertical jumping agility using inexpensive motors, electronics, and hardware. Since the robot was published in 2019 at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, it has been reproduced by students and researchers around the world. Nathan now does research with Stanford’s Robotic Exploration Lab and continues to bring new students into the Extreme Mobility group while working on new legged robots. By continuing to share open-source designs, Nathan hopes to lower the barrier to entry to robotics.