Charles A. Rosen
Charles A. Rosen was part of the SRI team behind Shakey. The project joined visual sensing, reasoning, and movement in an early mobile AI robot. Rosen and his team developed Shakey from 1966 to 1972. Their work aimed to let a mobile robot carry out a task without instructions for every individual step. SRI’s project history describes Shakey using a camera, detectors, and other sensors to interpret its surroundings, navigate, and reason about actions.
- Works
- 27
- Citations
- 377
- h-index
- 8
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1966–1972
The Shakey project
Rosen and his team developed Shakey from 1966 to 1972. Their work aimed to let a mobile robot carry out a task without instructions for every individual step.
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1990
Research recognition
AAAI elected Charles A. Rosen as a Fellow in 1990.
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As of October 2026
Sensing and reasoning
Shakey used a camera, detectors, and other sensors to interpret its surroundings, navigate, and reason about actions.
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As of October 2026
A shared AI architecture
Rosen and his team contributed to AI methods, programming, computer vision, and the robot’s layered architecture.
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