Whitney Crooks is a roboticist from Kansas City who currently resides in Somerville, MA. She just finished her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University, where she studied soft robotic manipulation. She also holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University (2014) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis (2012). When she isn't designing, fabricating, programming, and testing robots, Whitney enjoys being outside running, cycling, or hiking or inside curled up reading a book or working on her novel.
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