Edwin Dertien

Edwin Dertien (edwindertien.nl) is a creative roboticist at the University of Twente, where he teaches physical computing, sensors, tinkering and explorative design. He also works at the ASSortiMENS foundation, where he runs a FabLab inspired workshop for people with autism-related issues. He tries to combine his experience as improv-theatre musician with robot design, hidherto yielding a fleet of (essentially MIDI controlled) robot projects ranging from full size animatronic androids to bio inspired snake bots for pipe inspection.