page_title: Christopher G. Atkeson
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher G. Atkeson / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an inflatable robotic arm at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University that helped inspire the production team of Disney’s Big Hero 6 in Baymax's design.
context_page_description: Christopher Granger Atkeson is an American roboticist and a Professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Atkeson is known for his work in humanoid robots, soft robotics, and machine learning, most notably on locally weighted learning.
context_section_description: Before joining the faculty at CMU in 2000, he was an Assistant, then Associate Professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT from 1986–1993. He was also an Associate Professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994–2000.
  Atkenson's work in soft robotics helped influence production on the 2014 Disney film Big Hero 6, and he consulted with the film's production team on the design of Baymax.
caption: Chris Atkeson's robot that inspired the creation of Baymax[6]
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