# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-michelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:44:30.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-michelson"
name: "Robert Michelson"
slug: "robert-michelson"
description: "Robert C. Michelson is an American engineer and academic who invented the entomopter, a biologically inspired flapping-winged aerial robot, and who established the International Aerial Robotics Competition. Michelson's career began at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He later became a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of three U.S. patents and over 100 journal papers, book chapters and reports. Michelson is the recipient of the 1998 AUVSI Pioneer Award and the 2001 Pirelli Award for the diffusion of scientific culture as well as the first Top Pirelli Prize."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MichelsonInvention.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump