Ronald C. Arkin

Ronald C. Arkin
Ron Arkin in 2001
Born1949
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Stevens Institute of Technology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorEdward M. Riseman

Ronald Craig Arkin (born 1949) 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.