This Caltech student is building THE FUTURE OF SPACE

During our Defense Tech Hackathon in El Segundo, one name kept surfacing: Ethan. At the time, he was still at Caltech, not yet graduated, and already had no shortage of options in front of him: NASA on his resume, work in a lab with a professor, even the chance to spin technology out of the university. He still chose to found. Today, Ethan is building Icarus Robotics: the robotic labor force for space. Right now, that means dexterous mobile robots to augment astronaut crews in tasks like taking out the trash or unpacking cargo. Over time, it means enabling research, manufacturing, and everything else that makes a real space economy possible. Icarus came out of EF, pitched at Demo Day in San Francisco, and shortly after raised a $6M seed round. Now they are working with major players in the space industry and getting closer to testing their technology in space. Now it is easy to see why his name kept surfacing.