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Robert Wood (roboticist)

Summary

Robert J. Wood is a roboticist and a professor of electrical engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and is the director of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory.[1] At Harvard, he directs the NSF-funded RoboBees project, a 5-year project to build a swarm of robotic bees.[2]

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Wood received a BS in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1998.[3] He received a PhD in electrical engineering in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley under Ron Fearing with a thesis titled Composite microstructures, microactuators and sensors for biologically inspired micro air vehicles.[4]

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  • The Robobee Project Is Building Flying Robots the Size of Insects by Robert Wood, Radhika Nagpal and Gu-Yeon Wei in the March 11, 2013 Scientific American

References edit

  1. ^ "Micro | Cambridge | Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory". Microrobotics.
  2. ^ "Robobees. INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect's hive behavior..." Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  3. ^ a b c "Robert Wood wins prestigious NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator program awards". News. Harvard University. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. ^ "2004". Ph.D. Dissertations. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  5. ^ Chea, Jacqueline S. (15 November 2018). "Harvard Engineering Professor Wood Awarded Medal for Work in Robotics". The Crimson. The Crimson. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  6. ^ Perry, Caroline (16 May 2014). "Robert J. Wood named National Geographic Emerging Explorer". News. Harvard University. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  7. ^ "NSF Honors Two Early Career Researchers With Alan T. Waterman Award". News. National Science Foundation. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Technology Review: TR35". www.technologyreview.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-09.
  9. ^ "Two at SEAS win Presidential Early Career Awards". News. Harvard University. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Air Force invests $12M for Young Investigators Research Program". News. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  11. ^ "YFA Awardees 2006–2015" (PDF). DARPA. DARPA. Retrieved 12 September 2023.