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Martin Peticco is a Robotics Mechanical Engineer from Newburgh, NY in the Extreme Environment Robotics Group (347C) at JPL. He is working on the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) task and the TubeBot task working on Mars sample-tube-sized robots. He previously worked in the Electronics Packaging Group (356B) designing proof tests for components in ESA's ARIEL mission, and proof-of-concept piezoelectric motor support in the Non-Destructive Evaluators and Advanced Actuators Group (355N).
Before JPL, he worked at Epirus, the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology (CAST) Lab at Caltech, and IBM.
Robotic mobility dystems, aerial vehicles, robotic actuators and drive systems, bio-inspired Robotics, mechanisms