Oral-History:Robotics History: Narratives and Networks
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Robotics History: Narratives and Networks Oral Histoires
Beginning in 2010, The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, together with the School of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University, undertook a major robotics history project, “Robotics History: Narratives and Networks." Selma Šabanović of Indiana University was the principal investigator leading the project team. One of the major goals of the project was to document the development of robotics as a scientific field through an extensive program of oral histories with major figures in the field. Over 90 such oral histories were completed between 2010 and 2013. These oral histories are being posted here as they become available.
- Rachid Alami Alami's work has focused primarily on robot-robot and human-robot collaboration. Alami is currently the director of Robotics and A.I. research at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS) of the CNRS, the French National Research Center at the University of Toulouse.
- Robert Ambrose Ambrose isat the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX where he is currently the Principal Investigator of the Game Changing Development Program. Ambrose also heads NASA's Robonaut project and has been instrumental in the development of human-robot interactions.
- Minoru Asada Asada is known for his work on image processing and robotic behaviors and has been a graduate professor for the department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University since 1997.
- Ruzena Bajcsy Bajcsy has long been a member of the ECE Department at UC-Berkeley. While her previous research centered on robotics and automation, her current focus is on artificial intelligence; biosystems and computational biology; control, intelligent systems, and robotics; graphics and human-computer interaction, computer vision; and security.
- George BekeyHe spent forty years on the engineering faculty of the University of Southern California. He has played major roles in the fields of robotic prosthetics, human robot interaction, and robot ethics. Bekey is an IEEE Life Fellow and founding member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
- Bob BollesBolles has long been a researcher at SRI international. His work has focused on the combined areas of robotics and computer vision.
- Oral-Raja Chatila Chatila has spent most of his career with CNRS in Paris. His research encompasses a broad range of topics within the filed, especially in creating an understanding of the interactions and applications of autonomous and cognitive robotics.
- John Craig Over the course of his almost forty year career, Craig has worked with several different robotics groups and companies performing research on the motion and control of robots and robotic parts, including JPL, Adept, Invenios, and his own company, Silma.
- Ray Jarvis Jarvis, an IEEE Life Fellow, divided his career between the Australian National University and Monash University. His research spanned as wide range of topics within robotics, including computer vision, intelligent robots, path and pattern recognition and planning, and image processing.
- Petar Kokotovic A Native of Belgrade and an IEEE Life fellow, Kokotovic studies widely in both Eastern and Western Europe before joining the faculty at the University of Illinoism where in the 1960s he developed the sensitivity points method which is still in use for the automatic tuning of industrial controllers.
- Nils Nilsson Nilsson spent the first half of his career at SRI and the second half at Stanford. In both places, much of his work focused on Pattern Recognition and AI.
- Red Whittaker Whittaker haas spent his career at Carnegie-Mellon, where he has long been a principal in its Robotics Institutes. Among his achievements was the design and a deployment of a robot used in the clean up of the failed Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor.
