王天然

王天然1943生,1967年毕业于哈尔滨工业大学。1982-1985年,作为访问学者,在美国卡纳基–梅隆大学进行人工智能与机器人研究。现任中国科学院沈阳自动化所研究员,机器人技术国家工程研究中心主任，中国工程院院士。

王天然教授主要从事机器人和大型工业自动化系统的技术和应用研究。他曾获得国家科技进步奖、中科院科技进步奖、何梁何利科学与技术进步奖和辽宁省科技功勋奖等多项科技奖励.

Wang Tianran was born in March 1943, and graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1967. He conducted research on artificial intelligence and robotics as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University of the United States during 1982 to 1985. Currently, Wang services as professor at Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also director of the National Engineering Research Center on Robotics in China, and the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Wang devotes his efforts to research and application of robotics and large-scale industrial automation system. Due to his contribution to the field, he has won China’s National Scientific and Technological Progress Prizes, Technological Progress Prize of CAS, Technological Sciences Prize of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, and Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Award.