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Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins was an American avionics and communications company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spun off from Rockwell International in 2001 and acquired by United Technologies in 2018.
Rockwell Emulate3D
Rockwell Emulate3D is digital twin software for building physics-based 3D models of industrial automation systems and testing them with real PLC logic, sold by Rockwell Automation since 2019.
Rockwell International
Rockwell International, formerly North American Rockwell, was an American conglomerate spanning aerospace, defense, electronics, and automotive components; it sold its aerospace businesses to Boeing in 1996.
Rockwell X-30
The Rockwell X-30 was a planned American experimental aircraft, part of the National Aero-Space Plane program, intended to reach orbit using scramjet engines; Congress canceled it in 1994.
Rockwood Hall
Rockwood Hall was William Rockefeller's Gilded Age estate in Mount Pleasant, New York, with a 204-room mansion, the second largest private home in the US after Biltmore, landscaped by Olmsted, demolished 1941-42, now an 88-acre section of Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
Rocky Flats Plant
The Rocky Flats Plant was a US nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, Colorado, that fabricated plutonium pits for the nuclear stockpile from 1952 until 1989.
ROCm
ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) is AMD's open-source GPU computing platform for AI and high-performance computing, supporting Instinct accelerators and Radeon cards on Linux and Windows since 2016.
Rococo interiors
Rococo interiors are the eighteenth-century room ensembles of Louis XV's France, where panelling, mirrors, furniture, and painting form one light-colored, asymmetric, curvilinear whole, exemplified by the hôtel de Soubise.
ROD 2-8-0
The ROD 2-8-0 was a class of British heavy freight steam locomotives based on Robinson's GCR 8K, built for the Railway Operating Division in France from 1916.
Roddam Narasimha
Roddam Narasimha (1933–2020) was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist who reshaped the study of turbulence transition and relaminarisation, directing the National Aerospace Laboratories from 1984 to 1993.
Roddy Llewellyn
Roddy Llewellyn, born Roderic Victor Llewellyn in Wales in 1947, is a British garden designer, journalist, and author who became widely known through his eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret.
Roderic S. Lakes
Roderic S. Lakes is a mechanical engineer and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the first 3D materials with a negative Poisson's ratio.
Rodney Blakestad
Rodney Blakestad is a physicist and research program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), named a 2017 PECASE recipient, the highest US government honor for early-career scientists.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks, born 1954 in Adelaide, Australia, is an Australian roboticist and MIT professor emeritus known for the subsumption architecture, the 1991 paper "Intelligence without representation," and co-founding iRobot.
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing (1946–2024) was an American mineralogist and materials scientist at Stanford known for research on radiation damage in minerals and nuclear waste disposal.
Rodney Dale Welch Bowersox
Rodney Dale Welch Bowersox is an American aerospace engineer at Texas A&M University known for hypersonic aerodynamics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Rodney J. Clifton
Rodney J. Clifton is a Brown University engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for pioneering research on materials under extremely rapid loading.
Rodney J. Tabaczynski
Rodney J. Tabaczynski (1945–2025) was an American mechanical engineer who specialized in combustion modeling for spark-ignition engines at General Motors and Ford, retiring as Director of Powertrain and Research.
Rodnikovoye field
Rodnikovoye field (Родниковое месторождение) is an oil field in the Surgut district of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, discovered in 1977, developed from 1986, and operated by Surgutneftegas.
Rodong
Rodong, also written Nodong or Rodong 1, is a North Korean road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile first flight-tested in 1993, the design basis for Iran's Shahab-3 and Pakistan's Ghauri.
Rodovia BR-319
Rodovia BR-319, officially the Rodovia Álvaro Maia, is an 885 km Brazilian federal highway linking Manaus to Porto Velho, one of the Amazon's most contested infrastructure projects.
Rodovia Fernão Dias
Rodovia Fernão Dias, officially BR-381/MG/SP, is a federal toll highway in Brazil linking Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais to the São Paulo metropolitan region over 562 km.
Rodovia Transamazônica
Rodovia Transamazônica, officially BR-230, is a Brazilian federal highway crossing the country east-west through seven states. Opened in 1972, it was designed under the Médici military government as the centerpiece of the Program of National Integration.
Roe Messner
Roe Messner (Ronald Roe Messner, 1935–2025) was an American contractor from Wichita, Kansas, who built more than 1,700 churches and was chief contractor for Heritage USA.
Roe-Hoan Yoon
Roe-Hoan Yoon is a mineral processing engineer and colloid scientist at Virginia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and known for the commercial Microcel flotation process.
ROG Xbox Ally
The ROG Xbox Ally is a Windows 11 gaming handheld by ASUS and Microsoft, sold as the base Ally and the higher-performance Ally X, launched in October 2025.
Rogallo wing
The Rogallo wing, also called the Parawing, is a flexible fabric wing invented by Francis and Gertrude Rogallo in 1948 that became the basis of hang gliding.
Roger A. Schmitz
Roger A. Schmitz, also known as Roger Anthony Schmitz, was an American chemical engineer at Notre Dame who first demonstrated multiple steady states and chaos in chemical reactions.
Roger Antonsen
Roger Antonsen (1976–2024) was a Norwegian logician, mathematician, and computer scientist at the University of Oslo, known for a 2015 TED Talk viewed over 4 million times.
Roger B. Chaffee
Roger B. Chaffee (Roger Bruce Chaffee) was an American naval officer, engineer, and NASA astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967.