User:Autumn Siegel

  Autumn Marie Siegel, born in the 1990’s, is an awarded, published and exhibited; Multi-disciplined Artist, Photographer and Engineer. Her favorite activity is photographing rural landscapes and plants. She is a member of the MRISAR R&D Team. She began her apprenticeship in art and technology as a preschooler. She is one of four family team members who have designed and created the prototypes of every robotic, science, tech art and regular art exhibit that MRISAR sells and rents. Examples of her original art and photography, as well as her team’s technology can be seen at mrisar.org. Her family primarily lives in Montana and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  MRISAR's R&D Team consists of four family members who have designed and created the prototypes of every robotic, science, tech art and regular art exhibit that MRISAR sells and rents. The members are MRISAR's Founder John Adrian Siegel, his wife Victoria Lee Croasdell, plus their two youngest daughters Autumn Marie Siegel and Aurora Anne Siegel, (who started helping with R&D when they were preschoolers). MRISAR’s goal in creating so many products is to fund their own Philanthropic R&D projects and programs. Although each member is a core Artist/Engineer/Inventor, they have their own interests that they merge with MRISAR, resulting in a diversity of creativity! This two generation team has invented robotic systems for NASA.
 The work of MRISAR’s R&D team has drawn world interest for the public-use educational robotic exhibits that relate to STEM and STEAM prototypes that they create and also for their humanitarian R&D that aims to improve the quality of life. Their work has been presented before and/or published and awarded by: the United Nations, NASA-Emhart, Stanford, Cambridge, ICORR Robotics conferences, ROMAN Robotics conferences, IEEE, Discover Awards, International Federation of Robotics, etc. The “International Federation of Robotics” annual publication on Service Robotics regularly lists MRISAR Institute of Science, Art & Robotics in at least ten categories of robotics. The publication covers major contributors in the field of robotics and within that coverage focuses on the diversity of robotics, worldwide uses for robotics, economic factors and projections. Most are industrial providers, but the publication also includes NASA and other renowned research elements that reach well beyond industrial applications. In the 2011 publication MRISAR was featured in an entire chapter. The publication picks one per year for special focus in a chapter and covers a multitude of ventures in the rest of the document.