Undergraduate engineering and computer science student, Georgia Insitute of Technology, Robotics Musicianship Lab at Georgia Tech, ATL Satrangi
Rima Peddi is a second-year undergraduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying mechanical engineering and computer science. As a dancer, she found a union of her passions in Georgia Tech’s Robotics Musicianship Lab. She has been dancing since the age of four and is trained in Bollywood, hip hop, and jazz. Currently, she dances on a competitive collegiate dance team titled ATL Satrangi and conducts research on the capabilities of robots to perform, dance, and establish trust with humans. She continues to bridge her studies of mechanics with her knowledge of choreography, dance, and music to produce new forms of movement, human-robot interaction, and robot-robot interaction.