Robin R. Murphy

Robin R. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a founding director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue. She helped create the fields of disaster robotics and human-robot interaction, concentrating on developing human-centered AI for ground, air, and marine robots for extreme conditions. The character of Jae in Charlie Huston's novel Skinner is loosely based on her. Her work is captured in the Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Systems (AAAI Press) which was cited by Michael Crichton in his best-seller Prey, Introduction to AI Robotics (MIT Press), and the award-winning Disaster Robotics (MIT Press) and a TED talk. She has also won awards for her innovative teaching of artificial intelligence and robotics, which has resulted in Robotics Through Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Stories (MIT Press), the Robotics Through Science Fiction blog, and the science fiction/science fact series for the magazine Science Robotics.