Samuel H. Kenyon
Samuel H. Kenyon is Lead Software Engineer at iRobot.
Sam is an AI researcher, an atheist, a technoprogressive transhumanist,
and
occasionally an artist. Professionally, his goal is to develop
practical
human-robot interaction
and mobile robots with more autonomy in a safe and ethical manner. His
research goals include creating cognitive architectures (especially
involving emotions, learning, common sense, and collaboration) and
investigating interfaces.
He authored
Five Ways Machines Could Fix Themselves,
Softer, Better, Faster, Stronger: The Coming of Soft
Cybernetics,
Why You Should Care About (Post)Human Factors,
Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Robot?,
Neo-Emotions,
Agent Collaboration Using Anigrafs,
The Mind is Not an Etch-A-Sketch:
Learning with Society-of-Mind Structures,
Transplanting Commonsense Structures,
Injured Critics,
Biomimetic Emotional Learning Agents, and
Inherence and Nonsubstantial Particulars:
An Object-Oriented View,
and
coauthored
ORCA-VIII: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,
A small, cheap, and portable reconnaissance robot, and
A Script System and Path Editor for
Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Sam earned his B.S. in
Computer Engineering
from Northeastern University and
was a member of the
The Mars
Homestead Project.
He is currently a member of IEEE, AAAI, AUVSI, SPIE, and
WTA.
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