caption doctoral_advisor work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date residence image article_title name alma_mater
ron arkin in 2001 edward m. riseman georgia institute of technology new york city , new york american robotics 1949 united states ronald c. arkin.jpg ronald c. arkin
 ronald c. arkin university of michigan , ann arbor of massachusetts amherst stevens institute of technology university
ronald c. arkin

ronald craig arkin -lrb- born 1949 -rrb- 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 '' .
