Wesley Snyder received his PhD from the University of Illinois, and is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He has written over 100 scientific papers and is the author of the book Industrial Robots. He was a founder of both the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Neural Networks Council. He has served as an advisor to the National Science Foundation, NASA, Sandia Laboratories, and the U.S. Army Research Office.