Dr. Anthony Stentz is a Research Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and Director of the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). Dr. Stentz’s research includes autonomous ground and air vehicles, robot planning for uncertain environments, multi-robot coordination, perception for outdoor vehicles, manipulation for humanoid robots, robot architecture, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in the context of fieldworthy systems. He has over 250 papers and patents to his credit. Dr. Stentz is a recipient of the Alan Newell Award for Research Excellence for his agricultural automation work and a NASA Board Award for developing software used on the Mars Exploration Rovers. His organization (NREC) was nominated for a DARPA Sustained Excellence Award for its unmanned ground vehicle work and received an Edison Gold Award for its paint-stripping robot.