Mark Tilden
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Mark W. Tilden is perhaps most well known for his invention of BEAM robotics. He is a robotics physicist, who produces complex robotic movements from simple logic circuits, often all on the single logic chip and without a microprocessor.
Born in the UK and lived in Canada, he started at the University of Waterloo, then moved on to the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he developed robots such as the SAT bot, which aligns itself to the magnetic field of the earth and is meant for grids. He now works at WowWee Toys making biomorphic robot-based toys such as the B.I.O. Bug and the RoboSapien v1 and v2 [1].
Mark and his robots have been featured on several television specials, such as "Robots Rising" (Discovery), "The Shape of Life" (PBS), "TechnoSpy" (TLC), and "Extreme Machines - Incredible Robots" (TLC).
Mark was the technical consultant for the robot scenes of the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
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- Robosapiens - Upcoming feature documentary on the robo-adventures of Mark Tilden
- EvoSapien - A website dedicated on Hacking the Robosapien Robot, lots of mods, and useful information, schematics, codings, pictures, videos, including the new line of Robots Mark Tilden created
- EvoRaptor A Website dedicated to the Roboraptor, pictures, videos, internals, videos, hacks.. lots more created 2005 by M.W Tilden and Wow Wee... and hacked by fans and the community.
- RoboCommunity - The official WowWee Robotics user community
- Superstreng Podcast- A September 2006 podcast interview with Mark Tilden, conducted by Eirik Newth for Norwegian science radio show Superstreng
