Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
Astrobotic Technology
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Red Whittaker has developed dozens of successful systems in field robotics, space exploration, autonomous vehicles, mining, and agriculture. Whittaker has also led successful consortia and companies. He developed CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center from modest NASA seed funding; collaborated with Caterpillar to automate their entire
product fleet and develop 11 patents on autonomous mining and excavating; and founded RedZone Robotics on government seed funding for nuclear cleanup. Whittaker won the DARPA Urban Challenge and spun out the resulting technology through a partnership with General Motors.
