Dylan Glas is a robotics researcher at the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories at ATR. His research interests include network robot systems, teleoperation for social robots, human-machine interaction, ubiquitous sensing, and artificial intelligence.

Current projects include development of a visual language for behavior design for social robots, automatic calibration of laser range finders for human tracking, teleoperation systems for navigation and communication, communication robot systems for the elderly, and the modeling of human walking motion.

Dylan was awarded two S.B. degrees, one in Aerospace Engineering and one in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from MIT in 1997, and he received his M.Eng in Aerospace Engineering in 2000, also from MIT. During this time, he worked for two years in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab under Prof. Hiroshi Ishii while simultaneously researching commercial applications of reusable launch vehicle technologies.

Outside of academia, Dylan has worked as a software consultant and web designer, as well as spending three years as a high school teacher. He also worked in Jerusalem as a volunteer instructor in the MEET program, a technology education initiative designed to help develop relationships and common ground between Israelis and Palestinians.

He has currently lived in Japan for eight years, and outside of his research he enjoys camping, playing go, and singing a cappella.