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Ayanna Howard
Ayanna Howard is an American roboticist known for fuzzy-logic Mars rover navigation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, assistive robotics, and her 2026 appointment as president of Spelman College.
Benjamin C. K. Tee
Benjamin C. K. Tee (Tee Chee Keong) is a Singapore-based materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for self-healing electronic skin sensors.
Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal is a roboticist and MIT professor who pioneered social robotics with the expressive robot Kismet and co-founded the consumer robot company Jibo, Inc.
Daniela L. Rus
Daniela L. Rus is a Romanian-born roboticist, MIT professor, and director of CSAIL, the first woman to lead the lab, known for soft and self-reconfiguring robots.
Daniela Rus
Daniela Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist who directs MIT's CSAIL, holds the Viterbi Professorship there, and is known for self-reconfiguring robots, soft robotics, and liquid neural networks.
Emma Hart (computer scientist)
Emma Hart is an English computer scientist and Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, known for evolutionary robotics, especially jointly evolving a robot's body and controller.
Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman is an Israeli roboticist and associate professor at Cornell University known for expressive, non-anthropomorphic robots built around anticipation and timing, including the improvising marimba player Shimon.
Kate Darling
Kate Darling is a Swiss researcher of law, ethics, and human-robot interaction, formerly at the MIT Media Lab and now leading the RAI Institute's Robotics, Ethics & Society team.
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a roboticist, artist, and entrepreneur who is a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, directs the AUTOLAB, and co-founded Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics.
Leslie P. Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science at MIT, known for reinforcement learning and POMDP research and for founding the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal is a computer scientist who works on self-organizing robot collectives, created the Kilobot thousand-robot swarm, and has been a professor of engineering at Princeton University since 2022.
Russell L. Tedrake
Russell L. Tedrake is a roboticist and MIT professor who directs CSAIL's Center for Robotics, created the Drake toolbox, and leads robotics research at the Toyota Research Institute.
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade (金出武雄), born 1945, is a Japanese computer vision and robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, known for the Lucas–Kanade method and the 2016 Kyoto Prize.