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Facts, photos, a bio and coverage for journalists, podcasters and anyone writing about Jerryll Noorden or We Buy Houses In Connecticut.
Official bio
Jerryll H. Noorden
Jerryll H. Noorden is a robotics scientist turned house flipper, and the founder of We Buy Houses In Connecticut. Before real estate he led robotics research and development projects at NASA in Houston, at IHMC, the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, and at IIT, the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. His work includes IIT’s WALK‑MAN humanoid robot, NASA’s X1 exoskeleton and IHMC’s Mina exoskeleton, which helps people with paraplegia stand and walk.
He holds M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management, and B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering.
Since 2016 he has bought, rebuilt and sold Connecticut houses, and films the work in the series How We Flipped This House. He refuses the titles CEO and boss, and calls his role “the Minion”: the person whose job is to give the team whatever it needs to succeed.
Jerryll Noorden is a former NASA, IHMC and IIT robotics scientist who has bought and renovated Connecticut houses since 2016. He founded We Buy Houses In Connecticut and hosts How We Flipped This House.
- Company
- We Buy Houses In Connecticut, LLC
- Founder
- Jerryll H. Noorden
- Buying houses since
- 2016
- Registered
- Connecticut, 2019 (business ID 1314303)
- Service area
- All of Connecticut
- Houses bought
- About 100
- The show
- How We Flipped This House
- Also founded
- SEO For Real Estate Investors, REILink and Apex Vivus
Mission
We flip houses to fund robotics, for the sake of humanity
“Only when we recognize there is a problem can we devote resources to solving it. The problem is, not many people can do what we do, and if those that can won’t, who will?”Jerryll Noorden
Research in advanced robotics depends on outside funding, usually from governments. That funding is never guaranteed, and whoever funds the work controls the technology. Our purpose is to fund our own research and development, so the results stay in the hands of the people they are meant to help, in particular people who need mobility assistance. Read our mission
In the news
Coverage and press releases
The show
How We Flipped This House
References
Peer-reviewed publications and patent applications, listed in full so they can be looked up independently.
Peer-reviewed publications
- Kwa, H. K., Noorden, J. H., Missel, M., Craig, T., Pratt, J. E., & Neuhaus, P. D. (2009). Development of the IHMC Mobility Assist Exoskeleton. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5152394
- Neuhaus, P. D., Noorden, J. H., Craig, T. J., Torres, T., Kirschbaum, J., & Pratt, J. E. (2011). Design and evaluation of Mina: A robotic orthosis for paraplegics. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Zurich, Switzerland. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5975468
- Raj, A. K., Neuhaus, P. D., Moucheboeuf, A. M., Noorden, J. H., & Lecoutre, D. V. (2011). Mina: A sensorimotor robotic orthosis for mobility assistance. Journal of Robotics, 2011, Article 284352. doi.org/10.1155/2011/284352
- Tsagarakis, N. G., Negrello, F., Garabini, M., Choi, W., Baccelliere, L., Loc, V. G., Noorden, J., et al. (2017). WALK‑MAN: A high-performance humanoid platform for realistic environments. Journal of Field Robotics, 34. doi.org/10.1002/rob.21702
- Tsagarakis, N. G., Negrello, F., Garabini, M., Choi, W., Baccelliere, L., Loc, V. G., Noorden, J., et al. (2018). WALK‑MAN humanoid platform. In The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics). Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74666-1_13
Patent applications
- Craig, T., Rovekamp, R., Neuhaus, P., Noorden, J., Payton, N., & Radford, N. (2014). Bipedal exoskeleton and methods of use (U.S. Patent Application No. 2014/0100493 A1). Filed 4 October 2013; published 10 April 2014. Funded in part under a NASA contract. patents.google.com/patent/US20140100493A1
- Craig, T., Gines, J., Neuhaus, P., Noorden, J., & Payton, N. (2016). Exoskeleton-based exercise and training device (U.S. Patent Application No. 2016/0158593 A1). Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Filed 4 December 2015; published 9 June 2016. patents.google.com/patent/US20160158593A1
- Noorden, J. (2021). System and method for process management (U.S. Patent Application No. 2021/0089998 A1). Sole inventor. Filed 24 September 2020; published 25 March 2021. patents.google.com/patent/US20210089998A1
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