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Joshua Love is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous aerial systems and legged locomotion, with a focus on creating practical, efficient platforms for real-world deployment. He is best known for his contributions to cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teams and energy-efficient bipedal walking. His 2011 paper on an autonomous UAV system for sensing and tracking (16 citations) introduced a component-based software and hardware platform that enables a single user to control a fleet of UAVs for surveillance and tracking, reducing the risks associated with manned missions. Love further advanced multi-robot coordination with the Sandia Architecture for Heterogeneous Unmanned System Control (SAHUC), a framework for deploying teams of diverse unmanned systems. In legged robotics, he led the development of the STEPPR bipedal robot (13 citations), which uses parallel stiffness and back-drivable actuators to achieve improved locomotive efficiency—a significant step toward practical walking robots. His work at Sandia National Laboratories’ Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Cybernetics group demonstrates a rare ability to bridge hardware design and system-level control, making him a notable figure in both field robotics and biomechanically inspired locomotion.