Robert J. Twiggs (born November 27, 1935) is an American professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University.

[4][5] Twiggs earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1961 and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in microwave devices from Stanford University in 1964.

[6] From 1985 to 1994, Twiggs was the director of the Weber State University Center for Aerospace Technology.

He served as a consulting professor in the Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1994 to 2008.

Bob Twiggs became a professor at Morehead State University in 2009[7][8] in an effort to push the PocketQube standard leveraging the university's large aperture (21m) space tracking system, and to help develop a space economy in the state of Kentucky.