- Asimov, Isaac
Asimov was one of the three grand masters of science fiction and the creator of the term "robotics". He is known in the field for his Four Laws of Robotics and the large body of fiction he wrote about robots. He envisioned a future in which robots were (usually) safe, well-controlled servants of man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
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- Brooks, Rodney A.
Director of the MIT CS and AI Lab. CTO of iRobot. Involved in a wide range of robotics research initiatives. Best known as the creator of Subsumption Architecture in which layers of simple behaviors create complex emergent behaviors.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/
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- Moravec, Hans P.
Researcher at the CMU Robotics Institute who believes intelligent machines will be the descendants of the human race. Author of several books on the nature of evolving robot intelligence. Current work involves 3D mapping and stereoscopic vision.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/
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- Wiener, Norbert
Generally known as the "father of cyborgs". Wiener was the originator of the term cybernetics and part of a group of scientists who originated the field. He was also an MIT mathematician, science fiction author, and designer of an early chess-playing robot.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/1x137/cyber.html
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