About Mark Rosheim

Mark Rosheim is the founder and president of Ross-Hime Designs, Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota based mechanical design company. Customers include DOD, DOE, Lockheed and Rockwell Collins. He is a member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) from whom he received the 2015 ASME Engineer Historian Award.

Mr. Rosheim is the author of Robot Wrist Actuators (Wiley, 1989) and Robot Evolution: The Development of Anthrobotics (Wiley, 1994). He holds over 30 patents in robot technology, and has published and lectured extensively around the world on the topic of robot technology and its history.

On April 15th, 2000 Mr. Rosheim presented his reconstruction of Leonardo’s Programmable Automata for the 40th annual Lettura Vinciana at the Biblioteca Leonardiana in Vinci, Italy as well as the Italian media. His latest book Leonardo’s Lost Robots was published by Springer in 2006 and received an Association for American Publishers Honorable Mention.

He enjoys restoring his vintage home, collecting technological artifacts and rare books related to Leonardo, magician T. Nelson Downs, and more. Mark is a distant relative of the highly regarded Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup.

Mr. Rosheim has lectured at many universities including:

• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• University of Tours, Tours, France
• Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
• University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
• University of California, Santa Barbara/Los Angeles
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/Duluth
• Pepperdine University, Los Angeles County, California
• Biblioteca Leonardiana, Vinci, Italy
• MIT
• Museum of Innovation and Science, Schenectady, New York
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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View a listing of Mark Rosheim's publications