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I'm Will C. Forte, a mechanical & computational roboticist.
Welcome to my self-coded website!
I'm the President & Founder of Rutgers Dynamics, an extremely-ambitious student-run robot dog & humanoid lab. Part of a collaboration democratizing legged robotics with friends from Caltech, Columbia, Rutgers, and Berkeley.
I'm an undergrad robotics + AI researcher & Aresty Fellow at Rutgers' Honors College under Prof. Kostas Bekris.
Aside from my B.S. in MechE, I was a PI on a NASA NPWEE grant proposal.
LCFAQ: A Low-Cost, Fully-Actuated Quadruped (2023)
The summer after junior year of HS, I used spare parts to built a low-cost (≈$500), 12-motor quadrupedal robot intended to increase the accessibility of advanced robotics to educators and students already participating in FTC Robotics.
View ProjectCuff-Link: An Electromyographic Input Device (2024)
The Cuff-Link™ allows amputees and those suffering from nerve damage to control a computer using nothing but the muscles in their arm. A similar design cost Meta $500 million. It cost us $150.
We presented the project in front of a crowd of 200+ at the Academy of Math, Science, & Engineering 2024 Showcase.
TUBAA: Aeroacoustic Analysis of the MIT Toroidal Propeller (2023)
I was the CFD lead of a large undergraduate research project in which we compared the aeroacoustics of the MIT Lincoln Lab toroidal propeller against traditional alternatives using ANSYS Fluent and FFT spectra. The manuscript is available on arXiv.
Visit Our WebsiteMuJoCo Simulator Tutorial
I gave a workshop at the Rutgers University N2E Robotics Club to share my enthusiasm for the MuJoCo simulator and help people build and control a 2R manipulator using PID control.
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B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Minors in Computer Science & Mathematics
Engineering Honors Academy Scholar
If you want to say hi or talk robotics, email me at willcforte@gmail.com.