Robin Hall, Ph.D.

Hello! My name is Robin Hall, I am an Assistant Professor of Electromechanical Engineering at Merrimack College. I am the PI of the RUNE Lab (Robots for Unmanned Natural Exploration).

Before joining Merrimack in 2025, I received my PhD in Robotics Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (advised by Prof. Cagdas D. Onal in the WPI Soft Robotics Lab). In 2020, I completed my BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, where I conducted undergraduate research with Prof. Paolo Stegagno.

My research focuses on bio-inspired robotics, novel robotic manufacturing, and autonomous decision-making for operation in dynamic environments. I am particularly interested in the intersection of robotics and ecology: how ecological challenges motivate new robotic designs, and how those robotic systems can, in turn, enable new scientific insight into environmental processes that are difficult to observe using existing technologies.

I am actively recruiting motivated undergraduate and Masters students! If you are passionate about building robots and coding intelligence, please email me at hallrf@merrimack.edu .