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Robe River Iron Associates
Robe River Iron Associates is a joint venture mining open-cut iron ore near Pannawonica in Western Australia's Pilbara region, with first shipments from Cape Lambert in 1972.
Robear
Robear, stylized ROBEAR, is an experimental nursing-care robot announced in 2015 by Japan's RIKEN institute and Sumitomo Riko, which uses two arms to lift patients into a wheelchair.
Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown is an American chemical engineer, president emeritus of Boston University, known for modeling semiconductor crystal growth and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert A. Charpie
Robert A. Charpie (1925–2011) was an American physicist and industrial executive, a pioneer of civilian nuclear energy at Oak Ridge and president and CEO of Cabot Corporation.
Robert A. Frosch
Robert A. Frosch was an American theoretical physicist and research administrator who led NASA from 1977 to 1981 and launched the field of industrial ecology in 1989.
Robert A. Henle
Robert A. Henle was an American electrical engineer at IBM who led IBM's entry into semiconductor main memory and received the 1987 IEEE Edison Medal.
Robert A. House
Robert A. House is a British battery materials chemist and Associate Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford, known for oxygen-redox cathodes and sodium-ion battery research.
Robert A. Laudise
Robert A. Laudise (1930–1998) was an American materials scientist who spent his career at Bell Laboratories, developing the hydrothermal process that made synthetic quartz crystals manufacturable for electronics.
Robert A. Pucel
Robert A. Pucel is an American microwave engineer who spent 38 years at Raytheon developing gallium arsenide MMIC technology and shared the 2005 IEEE Microwave Pioneer Award.
Robert A. Rapp
Robert A. Rapp is an American metallurgist who taught at Ohio State from 1963 to 1995 and is known for his work on high-temperature oxidation and hot corrosion of metals.
Robert A. Scholtz
Robert A. Scholtz is an American electrical engineer and Fred H. Cole Professor at the University of Southern California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to spread-spectrum and ultra-wideband communication.
Robert A. Wagner
Robert A. Wagner (1941–2018) was an American computer scientist and Duke professor who co-authored the Wagner–Fischer algorithm, the standard dynamic-programming method for edit distance, in 1974.
Robert Adler
Robert Adler (1913–2007) was an Austrian-born American physicist who spent nearly six decades at Zenith Electronics and created the ultrasonic wireless TV remote control, holding about 180 US patents.
Robert Alan Pritzker
Robert Alan Pritzker (1926–2011) was an American industrial engineer and manufacturing executive who built the Marmon Group of Chicago into the 19th largest private company in the United States.
Robert B. Fridley
Robert B. Fridley (1934–2006) was an American agricultural engineer at UC Davis known for mechanized fruit harvesting and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Robert B. Gilbert
Robert B. Gilbert is a geotechnical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for risk-based engineering.
Robert B. Ormsby, Jr.
Robert B. Ormsby, Jr. was an American aerospace executive who led the Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Group, chaired the NASA Aeronautics Advisory Committee, and died in 2013.
Robert B. Richards
Robert B. Richards, also known as Robert Benjamin Richards, was an American nuclear engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 for designing early commercial nuclear plants.
Robert B. Ross
Robert B. Ross is an American computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory known for parallel file systems and I/O research, and a 2004 PECASE award winner.
Robert Bigelow
Robert Thomas Bigelow (born 1944 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American hotel and real estate entrepreneur who founded Budget Suites of America and Bigelow Aerospace.
Robert Bosch
Robert August Bosch (1861–1942) was a German industrialist and engineer who founded Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart in 1886, best known for vehicle magneto ignition.
Robert Bowie Owens
Robert Bowie Owens (1870–1940) was an American electrical engineer who led the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and the Maryland Academy of Sciences, with debated credit for discovering radon.
Robert Bromberg
Robert Bromberg (died 1999) was an American aerospace thermodynamicist, a pioneer of atmospheric reentry who led divisions at TRW and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.
Robert Byron Bird
Robert Byron Bird (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known as coauthor of Transport Phenomena and for kinetic theory of polymeric fluids.
Robert C. Duncan
Robert C. Duncan (1923–2003) was an American engineer and engineering manager who led Apollo guidance and control at NASA, managed the Polaroid SX-70 camera, and directed DARPA.
Robert C. Earlougher Jr.
Robert C. Earlougher Jr. (1941–2011) was an American petroleum engineer who spent his career at Marathon Oil and wrote Advances in Well Test Analysis, the 1977 SPE monograph still used as a textbook.
Robert C. Forney
Robert C. Forney, also known as Robert Clyde Forney, was an American chemical engineer who commercialized Dacron polyester fiber at DuPont and led its research from 1979 to 1989.
Robert C. Gooding
Robert C. Gooding (1918–1999) was an American naval engineer and Navy vice admiral who served as the first commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command from 1974.
Robert C. Gunness
Robert C. Gunness, full name Robert Charles Gunness (1911–2004), was an American chemical engineer and petroleum executive, president of Standard Oil of Indiana from 1965 to 1974.
Robert C. McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster (1913–1986) was an electrical engineer and pioneer of nondestructive testing, professor of welding engineering at Ohio State and editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook.