Robert Michelson
American academic · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1951 · age 75
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.
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![Robert Michelson next to a portrait of relative Christian Michelsen, at the Chr. Michelsen Institute[5]
in Bergen Norway.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Robert_Michelson_and_Christian_Michelsen.png/500px-Robert_Michelson_and_Christian_Michelsen.png)
Robert Michelson next to a portrait of relative Christian Michelsen, at the Chr. Michelsen Institute[5]
in Bergen Norway.
Compound ducted fan developed by Michelson's UAV team at GTRI began as a traffic surveillance drone program.![Robert Michelson being interviewed by Alan Alda at the 1995 International Aerial Robotics Competition during the filming of Scientific American Frontiers[65]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Michelson%26Alda_at_IARC.png/500px-Michelson%26Alda_at_IARC.png)
Robert Michelson being interviewed by Alan Alda at the 1995 International Aerial Robotics Competition during the filming of Scientific American Frontiers[65]About this person
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.
