Black in Robotics 'Meet The Members' series: Nialah Wilson

The DONUts platform may look like a collection of bronze-colored, futuristic coffee cups, but everything becomes clearer as they begin to move. The group of modular robots dance in a well-choreographed symphony as magnets turn on and off allowing the modules to pull or push their neighbors. Using these simple interactions, the modular robots can achieve complex tasks such as energy harvesting [1]. Nialah Wilson is one of the key roboticists who helped bring these modular robots to life. Taking advantage of the right message, passed at the right time, is also one of the things that led to Nialah's career in robotics.