Eduardo Torres-Jara

I am currently a postdoctoral associate at the Humanoid Robotics Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. During my PhD studies, I was also part of the Living Machines project.
My current research is in "Sensitive Manipulation" using as platform the robot OBRERO . This work is supervised by Prof. Rodney A. Brooks.

Biography
I was born in Cuenca, Ecuador . Cuenca is known as the "Athens" of Ecuador because of its cultural activity. While I was there, I attended to Colegio Tecnico Salesiano High School. This high school was one of the best experiences. Then I moved to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, to study Electronic Engineering. After graduation, I worked for a short period in AT&T Paradyne and then I decided to start my own thing. I designed and together with a friend I developed a general purpose controller (uMatic). After this first experience, I got involved in starting a software and communications company. I was the CTO of this company for a couple of years. Then I started the communcations division in a different company. At that point I decided that a change of enviroment would be interesting and I came to MIT. Here, I finished my master's and my PhD now, I am a postdoctoral associate at the CSAIL lab.

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Eduardo Torres-Jara
Humanoid Robotics Group
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
32 Vassar Street, Room 32-380
Cambridge, MA 02139
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