Morgan Pope

Morgan did his graduate work in a bio-inspired robotics lab at Stanford, where he built robots that climbed, perched, jumped, and flew. He then spent eight years at Walt Disney Imagineering building audio-animatronics that fly, flip, tumble, and roller-skate. His favorite project there was Stuntronics, a project that catapults Spiderman high in the air above the Disneyland Resort. He is now the creative director for Familiar Machines & Magic, which is bringing a new character to life at a mass-market scale. Professionally, he aims to work on systems that start with electricity and end with joy.