Robert Wood is a roboticist and an assistant professor of electrical engineering and of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and is the director of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. At Harvard University, he directs the NSF-funded RoboBees project, a 5-year project to build a swarm of robotic bees. In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Reviews TR35

TR35

The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Linus Torvalds , Jerry Yang , Jonathan Ive , Mark Zuckerberg...

 list and became a recipient of the Presidental Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

PECASE

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