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Alessandro Buscicchio is a roboticist and aerospace engineer whose work bridges the gap between extreme terrestrial exploration and deep-space missions. His primary research areas include autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments, origami-inspired robot design, and spaceflight hardware validation. Buscicchio made pivotal contributions as a core member of TEAM CoSTAR, which won the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. His work on the NeBula autonomy framework—detailed in papers with over 105 and 51 citations—enabled robots to navigate dark, unstructured tunnels and urban disaster sites without human intervention, advancing field robotics for search-and-rescue. He also pioneered a novel manufacturing paradigm for a pop-up Mars rover concept (55 citations), using a textile-enhanced rigid-flex PCB body to create lightweight, foldable space robots. On the Mars 2020 mission, Buscicchio designed and tested the “Blue Box” Electrical Ground Support Equipment for Perseverance’s Sampling Caching System, ensuring the rover could collect and seal Martian rock samples. His work uniquely combines theoretical innovation with real-world deployment, from winning the DARPA Challenge to supporting NASA’s sample-return campaign.