Robert Ambrose

Affiliation

NASA

Biography

Robert Ambrose received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.S. and B. S. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Ambrose serves as the Division Chief of the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. He is responsible for flight spacecraft software, space robotics and system simulations for human spaceflight missions. Dr. Ambrose co-chairs NASA’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems roadmap team, and is the robotics lead for NASA’s human spaceflight architecture studies. Dr. Ambrose is the NASA POC for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI).