# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-c-arkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:53:05.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-c-arkin"
name: "Ronald C. Arkin"
slug: "ronald-c-arkin"
description: "Ronald Craig Arkin is an American roboticist and roboethicist, and a Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for the motor schema technique in robot navigation and for his book Behavior-Based Robotics."
tagline: "American roboticist and roboethicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_C._Arkin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin"
    title: "Ronald C. Arkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "رونالد سى اركين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin"
    title: "Ronald C. Arkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin"
    title: "Ronald C. Arkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_C._Arkin"
    title: "Ronald C. Arkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1366729"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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