Kalind Carpenter is a Robotics Engineer in the Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators group at JPL. The lab he works in focuses on rapid technology development and end effectors specifically tailored to gripping and rough surface mobility. He has a degree in Mechanical Design from Arizona State where he also was a gymnast and has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Cal State LA. He has been interested in Robotics since he was young. His current work includes working with robots that have ground penetrating radar to map the changes in sub glacial ice in Greenland and Antarctica created by ocean currents. He has designed and made a Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER), which can be deployed in lava tubes to check volcanic activity and various oceanic studies. It was used at the nuclear plant in Japan after the tsunami disaster to check conditions where no human could go. Kalind has designed wall climbing and rough terrain robots that utilize microspines, electrostatic and Gecko adhesive to climb vertical and rough surfaces. They have been selected for use in Mars exploration. In finishing his talk Kaland said the principle rule he adheres to is, ”Do not imagine what you can build, build what you can imagine.”