He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences at Harvard, and conducted two years of Postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Lab. Professor Dollar’s research topics include human and robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation, mechanisms and machine design, and assistive and rehabilitation devices including upper-limb prosthetics and lower-limb orthoses. He is the recipient of the 2014 NASAEarly Career Faculty Award, 2013 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2011 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the 2010 Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award, and the 2010 NSF CAREER Award.