a professor from the Washington University in St Louis who has a history of creating interactive robots for commercial and entertainment purposes. Dr. Smart also has a background in robot learning and is a founding member of the Media and Machines Laboratory in St. Louis, MO.
a psychologist and author with 25 years of experience in human factors issues relating to the ethical use of high consequence technologies including nuclear and robotic technology. Recently, he has published several papers and journal articles providing methodologies and performance metrics for guiding future research and experimentation pertaining to human-robot interaction.
served in Engineer Directorate of Combat Developments (DCD) as the team Chief for Countermine, Demolitions, and Robotics in 2001. He obtained a Masters in Acquisition Management from Webster University in 2003 and graduated from Command and General Staff College in 2005. LTC Boyd was later assigned as the chief, Material Branch, Engineer Division, DCD. While serving as the Chief of the Engineer Division he was responsible for successfully developing and fielding over 9 new Countermine systems, 6 construction systems, 3 Heavy Brigade Combat Team mobility systems and 4 demolition systems and started the creation of numerous other mobility, countermobility, construction and robotic capabilities. In 2006 he was reassigned to his present position of Chief, Future Combat Systems, TRADOC Capabilities Manager-Maneuver Support, MANSCEN.
is Senior Researcher at the DFKI Language Technology Lab, where he leads research efforts in developing "talking robots" -- integrated mobile robot systems combining sophisticated models for situation awareness with the possibilities to understand and produce situated, spoken dialogue.
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