Bio
Santosh Pitla is a professor in advanced machinery systems. He specializes in agricultural robotics, unmanned ground and aerial applications in agriculture, agricultural equipment logistics and embedded control applications in machine automation. Since joining the faculty in 2014, he has been working to advance robotic tractor technology. He is at the helm of a team that built the automated Flex-Ro robotic tractor. He also has led work to enhance tractor testing at Nebraska's unique tractor testing laboratory, the only such facility in the Western Hemisphere. (Updated November 2024.)