Robotics

Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represents the foundation of the modern robotics industry.

Human-robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, psychology and philosophy.

Neuromorphic systems aim to enhance energy efficiency and computational power for applications including artificial intelligence, robotics, pattern recognition, and sensory processing.

Bekey (19 June 1928 - 17 October 2024) was an American roboticist and the professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Chan-Jin Chung (Korean: 정찬진; born January 4, 1959), also known as CJ Chung, is a professor of computer science at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Michigan, USA. He is the founder of Robofest, an international autonomous robotics competition established during the 1999-2000 academic year He has contributed to educational programs that integrate science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), arts, robotics, and computer science.

He was also a pioneer in the fields of computing and robotics, while maintaining an active role in several scientific and cultural institutions.

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In robotics and motion planning, kinodynamic planning is a class of problems for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles.

Kenneth Yigael Goldberg (born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation.

Victor David Scheinman (December 28, 1942, September 20, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of robotics.

Vijay Kumar (born 1962) is an Indian roboticist.

Matthew Thomas Mason (born August 24, 1952 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American roboticist and the former Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Roland Siegwart (born in 1959, Lausanne), is a Swiss robotics expert.

Helen Greiner (born December 6, 1967) is an American engineer roboticist, and technology entrepreneur.

Rus is known for work in robotics and artificial intelligence, including distributed and networked robotics, self-reconfiguring robot systems, soft and bio-inspired robots, computational design and fabrication, human-robot interaction, autonomous systems, and adaptive machine learning.

Cynthia Breazeal is an American AI and robotics scientist and entrepreneur.

She is known for her work on robotics/AI and bioinformatics/computational biology and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis.

Oussama Khatib (Arabic: أسامة الخطيب) is a roboticist and a professor of computer science at Stanford University, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Raibert was the founder, former CEO, and now Chairman of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company known for creating BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle.

Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948) is an Austrian-born Canadian computer scientist and an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, U.S.

His research spans computational geometry, computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, with contributions including foundational data structures, the earth mover's distance for image retrieval, Metropolis light transport, and the PointNet architecture for deep learning on point clouds.

He is the editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research, a Senior Editor of Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, and a Governing Board member of the electronic journal Haptics-e.