Contributors
Special thanks to the Philip K. Dick Trust for their support and cooperation during this project. Please take a moment to visit the official website for Philip K. Dick.
http://www.philipkdick.com/
Project Development Team
| David Hanson | Initiated PKD robot project; project lead; created PKD sculpture, skin, and major system designs; built considerable part of robot. |
| Andrew Olney | Project software development manager and lead developer; provided AI systems; derived the robots personality from PKD's writings; integrated voice, speech, vision and AI software. |
| Steve Prilliman | Chief JoAT (jack of all trades). Helped define requirements, design mechanical systems, and build the PKD robot. |
| Eric Mathews | Handled project logistics for the FedEx Institute of Technology. |
| Bill Hicks | Robot production line engineer. Helped implement hardware designs |
| Richard Berg | Primary mechanical systems CAD design |
| Michael O'Neil | Set construction |
| Derek Hammons | Software coding assistant |
| Jeongsik Sin | Eye mechanism CAD design |
| Woo Ho Lee | Eye mechanism CAD design |
| Heather Beardsley | Neck mechanism CAD design |
| Mei-Hwa Huang | Vision system software integration |
| Alex Pereira | Software coding assistant |
| Elaine Hanson | Associate JoAT (jack of all trades). |
| Amanda Fisher | Associate JoAT (jack of all trades). |
| Kristen Nelson | Led the set design and drafting, co-conceptualizing |
| Steve Aydt | Helped author and edit the robot script. |
Corporate Sponsors
| Direct Dimensions www.dirdim.com |
Laser scanned robot skull and provided digital file for CAD development. |
| Acapela www.acapela-group.com |
Babs voice Ryan-the synthesized voice of PKD-A. |
| Multimodal Technologies www.Mmodal.com |
Automatic speech recognizer |
Advisors
| Paul Williams | Served as expert consultant on the design of the robot and its personality |
| Harry Stephanou | PKD-A Collaborator through ARRI |
| Raul Fernandez | Leader of ARRI mechanical design team. |
| Dan Popa | Vision system software manager |
| Art Graesser | Intelligent systems advisor |
| Lou Schwartz | Project operations assistance and advice. |
| Dennis Robbins | Project operations assistance and advice. |
| Dennis Kratz | Literary consultation. |
| Steve Wallach | Hanson Robotics advisor and advisor to the PKD-A project. |
| Yoseph Bar-Cohen | Project advisor. |
| Tom Linehan | Aesthetics of technology, advisor. |
| Tommy Palotta | Artistic and philosophic advisor |
Special Thanks
| The Philip K. Dick Estate | Guidance on Philip K Dick's life |
| Victor White | Expertise on polymer processes |
| Cognitec Systems | Provided their facial recognition software |
| Nevenvision | Provided their Facial feature tracker (fft) SDK for testing |
| Massive Software | Consulted on muscle/animation intelligence. |
| Josh from Smoothon | Loaned us sculpture tools. |
| Mitch and Michelle Rogers | Casting of PKD/A body and arms |
| Marshall Yount | Project advisor and visionary |
| Forrest Jackson | Friend of the PKD-A, provided rare PKD books for reference. |
| Jonathan Nelson | Project website support, set construction, Nextfest presenter |
| Will Lancaster | Project website support, set construction, Nextfest presenter |
| Sarah Petschonek | Website author, set construction, Nextfest presenter. |
| Suresh Susarla | Video support |
| Mike Rowe | Manual labor, heavy lifting, and moral support |
| Marge Zielke | Leading human subject tests at UTD using Hanson Robotics robots. |