# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-tilden
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:25:25.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-tilden"
name: "Mark Tilden"
slug: "mark-tilden"
description: "Mark W. Tilden is a robotics physicist who produces complex robotic movements from simple analog logic circuits, often with discrete electronic components, and usually without a microprocessor. He is controversial because of his libertarian Tilden's Laws of Robotics, and is known for his invention of BEAM robotics and the WowWee Robosapien humanoid robot."
tagline: "Canadian roboticist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Tilden_Oslo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           7.012528
  currentAttention:     47.61904761904761
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
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    title: "مارك تيلدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Tilden"
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  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%84_%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%99"
    title: "มาร์ค ทิลเดน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump