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bio: My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.

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  - course: PhD in Artificial Intelligence
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    year: 2012
  - course: MEng in Artificial Intelligence
    institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    year: 2009
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    institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nelson Bighetti is a professor of artificial intelligence at the Stanford AI Lab. His research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter. He leads the Robotic Neurobiology group, which develops self-reconfiguring robots, systems of self-organizing robots, and mobile sensor networks.

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