Meet Kimberly Hambuchen

June 12, 2018 July 5, 2022

I’ve been working to make robots more usable by humans.

Meet Kimberly Hambuchen, Deputy Project Manager Human Robotic Systems at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Kimberly has been working with robots to make them more usable by humans for more than a decade. To learn more about NASA robotics, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/robotics/index.html

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