Dr. Heather Knight is an assistant professor in Computer Science and Robotics at Oregon State University. There, her CHARISMA research group uses methods from Entertainment to bootstrap the development of Social Robots.

Her academic background includes a postdoc at Stanford University, a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University exploring Expressive Motion for Low Degree of Freedom Robots, and a M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developing a sensate skin for a robot teddy bear at the MIT Media Lab. Additional past work includes instrumentation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and sensor design at Aldebaran Robotics.

Outside OSU, she runs Marilyn Monrobot, a robot theater company featuring robot comedy performances and the annual Robot Film Festival.

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