IEEE profiles roboticist Peter Stone: robot soccer, service robots and being a generalist
PeterStone_TX · x · 2026-10-17
IEEE's robotics site profiles Peter Stone, UT Austin professor and Chief Scientist at Sony's Corporate Technology Center, in its 'Day in the Life of a Roboticist' series. His career-long passion is robot soccer (sparked by an Alan Mackworth lab demo at AAAI 1994), with research spanning autonomous driving, service robots and table tennis. His advice to aspiring roboticists: 'Be a generalist.'
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