His responsibilities include localization, mapping, high-level control, path planning, and motion planning. During his graduate studies, Spyros developed robotics software for Team ViGIR, one of the 23 teams that competed in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. He has experience with a variety of robotic platforms, including the Boston Dynamics ATLAS humanoid robot, the KUKA youBot mobile manipulator, and the iRobot Create. Spyros has also been a Teaching Assistant for Cornell University’s Autonomous Mobile Robots class. Spyros is pursuing a PhD in Robotics at Cornell University, but he is currently on a leave of absence.