[2] Farritor worked at the Field and Space Robotics Laboratory at MIT and the Unmanned Vehicle Lab at Draper Laboratory​.

[2] In 1998, Farritor joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) faculty as a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering​.

[2] In 2002, he began developing robotic traffic cones and barrels that could be controlled remotely or programmed to move autonomously​.

[4] His robotics work also extends to railroad safety, where he led a team that developed a sensor system to measure track integrity and identify potential derailment risks​.

[3] In 2020, he obtained a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan worth $31,800 to maintain his work force during the COVID-19 pandemic.