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Researcher · Boston Dynamics (United States) · United States

Robert R. Playter

Robert R. Playter publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Surgery, on topics such as Robotic Locomotion and Control, Surgical Simulation and Training and Robot Manipulation and Learning.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,154,337
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#648,111
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
777
Citations per work
37.0
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 51% in Biomedical Engineering
Robert R. Playter

What does Robert R. Playter research?

Robert R. Playter's work is mostly in Engineering (55%), Medicine (13%), Computer Science (7%).

Physical Sciences: 13 works · 61.9% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 54.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 6 works · 27.3% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 works · 20.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 7.3% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 7.3% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 25.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 12.8% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 12.8% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 7.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert R. Playter21works
Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences13%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1154.6%
    2. Computer Science27.3%
  2. Everything else525.3%
    1. Medicine312.8%
  1. 1Biomedical Engineering27% of their works
  2. 2Control and Systems Engineering20% of their works
  3. 3Surgery7% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition7% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert R. Playter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bipedal Locomotion, Dynamic Walking, Deep Learning, Surgical Skills, Virtual Reality Training, Grasping, Modular Robots and Robot Learning.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Bipedal Locomotion101 topic
  2. Dynamic Walking101 topic
  3. Deep Learning73 topics
  4. Surgical Skills41 topic
  5. Virtual Reality Training41 topic
  6. Grasping31 topic
  7. Modular Robots31 topic
  8. Robot Learning31 topic
  9. Self-Reconfiguration31 topic
  10. Skiing31 topic
  11. Snowboarding31 topic
  12. Action Recognition21 topic
  13. Bioinspired Robotics21 topic
  14. Character Animation21 topic
  15. Motion Synthesis21 topic
  16. Pose Estimation21 topic
  17. Soft Robotics21 topic

Where does Robert R. Playter work?

Robert R. Playter's main affiliation in the publication record is Boston Dynamics (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert R. Playter have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 777 citations for Robert R. Playter, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,154,337 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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