Dieter Fox is a German-American roboticist and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Bonn in 1998, with work on mobile robot localization and navigation. He is best known for contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and ubiquitous computing, and together with Wolfram Burgard and Sebastian Thrun he wrote the book Probabilistic Robotics. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2011. He was previously Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia, and in July 2025 he joined the Allen Institute for AI, where he leads a new robotics effort using foundation models and simulation.
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He is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ubiquitous computing.
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