Benjamin J. Hockman

Dr. Benjamin Hockman is a Robotics Technologist in the Surface Mobility group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2018, where his graduate work focused on robotic surface mobility on small Solar System bodies. Ben’s research interests include design, control, modeling, estimation, and decision-making for space robotic systems. Ben has worked on extreme terrain tethered rovers for exploring Lunar pits, internally actuated hopping robots for asteroids and comets, melt probes for accessing the oceans of icy moons, and algorithms for spacecraft and rover autonomy.