BIO

I'm a third year PhD student at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory co-advised by Wojciech Matusik and Daniela Rus, working on the Printable Programmable Machines project. Prior to joining MIT, I earned my M.Eng in Computer Science and my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, where I briefly worked with Hod Lipson's group, and then spent two years working as a research engineer in the Asymmetric Operations Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL).

I work in the intersection of fabrication and robotics. Previously, that meant designing algorithms for robotic assembly, but these days I am creating tools to enable users to quickly design, program, and easily fabricate their own personal robots using data-driven tools. I am strongly interested in democratizing fabrication, both in form and function, and computational creativity. My work falls in the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and robotics.

In summer 2015 I had an awesome internship at Disney Research: Pittsburgh, working on projects in fabrication and interaction, and I had another awesome internship at Disney Research: Zürich

PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholar

Journal

• Schulz, A.; Sung, C.; Spielberg, A.; Zhao, W.; Cheng, R.; Grinspun, E.; Rus, D.; Matusik, W., "Interactive Robogami : An End-to-End System for Design of Robots with Ground Locomotion," International Journal of Robotics Research.
• Spielberg, A.; Sample, A.; Hudson, S. E.; Mankoff, J. A.; McCann, J, ""RapID: A framework for fabricating low-latency interactive objects with RFID tags," SIGHCHI 2016. Best Paper Award
• Dogar, M.*; Knepper, R.*; Spielberg, A.*; Choi, C.; Christensen, H.; Rus, D., "Multi-Scale Assembly With Robot Teams," The International Journal of Robotics Research - ISER 2014 Special Issue. (* denotes co-first authorship)

Conference

• Spielberg A.; Araki B.; Sung C.; Tedrake R.; Rus, D., "Functional Co-Optimization of Articulated Robots," Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017 IEEE International Conference on.
• Dogar, M.; Spielberg, A.; Baker, S.; Rus, D., "Multi-Robot Grasp Planning for Sequential Assembly Operations," Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. Nominated for Best Paper in Manipulation and Best Paper Overall
• Knepper, R.; Dogar, M.; Spielberg, A.; Choi, C.; Christensen, H.; Rus, D., "Towards Coordinated Precision Assembly with Robot Teams," 2014 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2014).
• Ayanian, N.; Spielberg, A.; Arbesfeld, M.; Strauss, J.; Rus, D., "Controlling a Team of Robots With a Single Input," Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on.