A sketch of a robot hand holding a yellow flower.

Will Heitman

Cambridge, MA

I build robots for people and the planet.

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Work Experience

Roboticist,
Robotics and AI Institute
2025 – Present
Summer Fellow,
USDA ARS AI Center of Excellence
Summer 2024
Research Assistant,
Applied Systems Lab at UTD (NSF REU)
2021-2023
Resume (PDF)

Projects

Reforestation robot 2024 – 2025
Agroforestry robotics simulator 2024 – 2025
State-of-the-art soil analysis in the browser 2024
Open-source autonomous car 2019 – 2023
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Media

CMU’s Autonomous Reforestation Robot Earns National Award
AI Vehicles Driving Autonomous Technology Research at UT Dallas