My name is Charlie Hanner, and I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland’s Space Systems Laboratory where my research focuses on robots, rovers, and habitation in the pursuit of exploration. From operating robotic manipulators underwater in our Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility to fabrication and repair of robots and planetary rover analogues, I try to bring my hands-on skills to the research plane to make affordable, on-time solutions to our engineering problems.