Robert Hogg

Robert Hogg is a Senior Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. Robert began his career at NASA in 1997 as a flight software engineer on the Deep Space One spacecraft, which tested 12 advanced high-risk technologies in space and returned priceless images of Comet Borrelly. Robert is currently the Deputy Mission Manager and Helicopter Manager for the Mars 2020 mission, NASA's latest Mars rover to land on Mars in February 2021. The mission's Perseverance rover is searching for signs of past life on Mars using seven advanced instruments, capturing the most promising soil and rock samples to be returned to Earth. Prior to his work on Mars 2020, Robert developed systems and behavior software for the JPL Urban Robot, concluding with a successful robotics system that could navigate complex terrain and climb flights of stairs autonomously. Concurrently he created the Spiderbot research task, which investigated adaptable sensor webs and mobility for small legged robots. Robert has extensive experience in flight systems design and development, and planetary operations in the areas of robotics and navigation from his seven years of work on the Mars Science Laboratory mission, and its Curiosity rover, which landed in 2012 and is still exploring mars to this day.