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Robert W. MacCormack
Robert W. MacCormack is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Emeritus, at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for work on numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
Robert W. Rummel
Robert W. Rummel (1915–2009) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent 35 years at Trans World Airlines, advised Howard Hughes, and served on the 1986 Challenger commission.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr., known as Robert W. Erickson, is an American power electronics engineer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Robert Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio physicist, born in 1892, who led the development of Britain's Chain Home radar network and is known as the father of radar.
Robert Wellesley Mann
Robert Wellesley Mann (1924–2006) was an American mechanical engineer at MIT, a founder of rehabilitation engineering who developed the Boston Arm, the first artificial limb controlled by biology and technology.
Robert Wendell Heath Jr.
Robert Wendell Heath Jr. is an American wireless communications engineer at UC San Diego, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for MIMO and 5G research.
Robert Wertheim
Robert Halley Wertheim (1922–2020) was an American naval officer and strategic weapons engineer who retired as a rear admiral after leading development of the Navy's Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) was a British engineer who invented the Whitehead torpedo, the first effective self-propelled torpedo, developed at Fiume, in the Austrian Empire, in 1866 and adopted by navies worldwide.
Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin, also known as Bob Zubrin, is an American aerospace engineer and author, born in 1952, best known for the Mars Direct plan and founding the Mars Society.
Robert-Bourassa Generating Station
The Robert-Bourassa Generating Station, known until 1996 as La Grande-2, is a hydroelectric plant on Québec's La Grande River with 5,616 MW of capacity, the largest power station in Canada.
RoBERTa
RoBERTa is a transformer encoder from Facebook AI, released in 2019, that keeps BERT's architecture but pretrains it with more data and no next-sentence prediction.
Roberta J. Nichols
Roberta J. Nichols was an American aerospace and automotive engineer who led alternative fuel development at Ford, held three flexible-fuel vehicle patents, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Roberto Cipolla
Roberto Cipolla, born 1963, is Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, known for computer vision research, SegNet, and directing Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory.
Roberto Meli Piralla
Roberto Meli Piralla is an Italian-born Mexican structural engineer and emeritus UNAM researcher who founded Mexico's disaster prevention center Cenapred and worked on the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.
Roberto Padovani
Roberto Padovani is an Italian-born communications engineer who led CDMA development at Qualcomm, serving as chief technology officer from 2002 to 2011 and creating the HDR technology behind 3G data.
Roberts linkage
The Roberts linkage is a four-bar linkage in which a point on the coupler traces an approximate straight line, attributed to Richard Roberts and known by the 1840s.
Robi Axiata
Robi Axiata is a Bangladeshi mobile network operator, the country's second largest, formed by the 2016 merger of Robi and Airtel Bangladesh and listed on the stock exchanges since December 2020.
Robie House
The Robie House, formally the Frederick C. Robie House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright house museum in Chicago's Hyde Park, widely regarded as the fullest expression of his Prairie style.
Robin A. Moser
Robin A. Moser is a Swiss computer scientist who gave the first efficient constructive proof of the Lovász Local Lemma, sharing the 2020 Gödel Prize with Gábor Tardos.
Robin B. Nicholson
Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson was a British metallurgist who pioneered transmission electron microscopy of precipitation in aluminum alloys and later served as Chief Scientific Adviser to Margaret Thatcher.
Robin H. A. Ras
Robin H. A. Ras is a Finnish-based materials chemist who studies droplet behavior and superhydrophobic, super-repellent coatings; he has been a professor at Aalto University in Espoo since 2013.
Robin Hood Gardens
Robin Hood Gardens was a Brutalist council housing estate in Poplar, East London, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, completed in 1972, and demolished from 2017.
Robin K. McGuire
Robin K. McGuire is an American civil engineer who helped develop probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, founded Risk Engineering, Inc. in 1984, and wrote the standard monograph Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis.
Robin Khuda
Robin Khuda is a Bangladesh-born Australian technology entrepreneur who founded AirTrunk, a hyperscale data center company across Asia-Pacific, and sold it in 2024 at over A$24 billion.
Robin Li (李彦宏)
Robin Li (李彦宏), born 1968 in Yangquan, Shanxi, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Baidu, China's largest search engine, in 2000 and later pushed it into artificial intelligence.
Robin Milner
Robin Milner (1934–2010) was a British computer scientist at Edinburgh and Cambridge who created ML and CCS and won the 1991 Turing Award for machine-assisted proof, type inference, and concurrency.
Robin Murphy
Robin Murphy is an American computer scientist and disaster roboticist, Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University, who has deployed rescue robots at over 30 disasters including 9/11 and Fukushima.
Robin Olds
Robin Olds was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and general who scored 16 aerial victories across World War II and Vietnam, a triple ace.
Robin Podmore
Robin Podmore is an electric power engineer, educated in New Zealand, who founded IncSys in Bellevue, Washington, and developed PowerSimulator, a training simulator used by grid operators worldwide.
Robin Rombach
Robin Rombach is a German AI researcher, lead author of the latent diffusion paper behind Stable Diffusion, who left Stability AI in 2024 to co-found Black Forest Labs.