[1] Levinson worked as a design engineer at General Dynamics from 1966-1969, after completing his bachelor's degree, and as an instructor in computer science at Yale University from 1974-1976, after completing his Ph.D.[1] In 1976, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
[1] In 1997, Levinson moved to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he leads the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab.
Levinson is developing computational models of the brain, mind, and language acquisition using an iCub humanoid robot.
[2][3] Levinson is the first researcher in North American to work with this type of robot, which was designed in Europe.
Skills that researchers hope to teach the robot include juggling, walking, talking, and memory formation.