Frank Sebastianelli is a robotics engineer at Dow who has worked to get mobile robots into hard-to-reach and dangerous locations his entire career, whether in orbit during his time at NASA or deep inside plants during his time at Dow. He conceptualizes architecture of R&D robotic solutions and then contributes to the hands-on development of custom software and hardware solutions. He specializes in mechatronics and embedded software of field-ready, fully functional, mobile robots. Sebastianelli has a BS in aerospace engineering from the Univ. of Texas at Austin and is finishing his MS in aerospace engineering from the Univ. of Alabama. He has chaired and presented on the topic of R&D robotic solutions at the SPRINT Robotics Conference, ASME conferences, and AIChE conferences.