Raul-David Poblano, know to his friends as RETRO, is a Media Arts and Science Master Degree Candidate at the Media Laboratory. Retro has earned a S.B. in Management Sciences from the Sloan School of Business, a S.B. from the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT, and has received formal training in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena.

Retro has a true passion for the classical approach of automobile design, yet posses a greater vision for personal mobility as whole. His research focuses on Omni-Directional Mobility and its effects on the city, the hub-less wheel robot and the shared ownership City Car.