Roberta "Bobby Lou" Klatzky is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Her work has an application to navigation aids for the blind, haptic interfaces, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and virtual environments.
Prior to working at CMU, Klatzky was employed at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Klatzky is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU.
She has also completed editorial work for a number of prestigious journals in cognitive and perceptual psychology, including IEEE, Acta Psychologica and Perception and Psychophysics, and she is listed in Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century.