Oral-History:Robotics History: Narratives and Networks

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 Šabanović of Indiana University was the principal investigator leading the project team. One of the major goals of the project was to document this history 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.

• Oral-History: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.