Robert Wood (roboticist)

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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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Background

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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