Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969, in Canada) is a Canadian-American[1] computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur and roboticist based in England.

His dissertation applied randomized methods to analyzing the performance of networks and compilers.

[3] During graduate school Blackwell joined Viaweb for which he wrote the image rendering, order processing and statistics software.

[citation needed] He founded Anybots in 2001 to build teleoperated humanoid robots.

In 2006, Anybots announced a humanoid robot that walks and balances like people do, without depending on large feet for stability.