Asa Eckert-Erdheim

Asa Eckert-Erdheim is a highly experienced roboticist and mechanical engineer currently working at RAI Institute since October 2023. Prior to this role, Asa served as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Formlabs from April 2022 to October 2023, and held the position of Staff Electromechanical Engineer at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from July 2020 to April 2022. Asa's career also includes five years at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering as a Robotics Engineer and Research Fellow, and experience as a Robotics and Systems Engineer in the Mobile Robotics Group at the University of Oxford. Early in the technological journey, Asa worked as a researcher and student liaison at the Olin Robotics and Bioinspiration Lab while pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a Robotics Concentration at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering from 2010 to 2014. Asa also has experience as a summer intern at the University of Maryland and as a student contractor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.