8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
AI and robotics researcher — who has worked on embodied AI and machine learning systems — referenced in discussions of AI progress.
American author and biochemistry professor who wrote more than 500 books — including the Foundation series, the Robot series, and the Three Laws of Robotics — and who is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction alongside Clarke and Heinlein.
Slovenian AI and robotics researcher — who works on embodied intelligence and robotics — referenced in discussions of AI and robotic systems.
Australian-American AI researcher and robotics pioneer who argued that intelligence is not about central symbolic representation but about embodied, reactive behaviors — the subsumption architecture.
American software engineer who wrote much of the original Python code for the Google search engine as a Stanford graduate student — often called 'the third Google founder' — and later founded robotics company Suitable Technologies.
German-American AI researcher who built the Stanley self-driving car (DARPA Grand Challenge winner, 2005), founded Google X and Google's self-driving car project (Waymo), and co-founded Udacity — the first major MOOC platform for technical education.
American AI and robotics researcher at UC Berkeley — who works on deep reinforcement learning for robotics — one of the leading researchers on how to train robots to manipulate objects in the physical world.
Researcher in robotics and human-robot interaction — cited in the context of AI and robotics discussions.