Career
He is also known by the pseudonyms Registered Nurse Theory and AcroYogi. In 1986, while attending Walter Johnson High School, Roberts worked under the direction of Doctor Gary Wind at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he led the design of novel pre-surgical visualization methods through custom software co-developed with Vojin Dvorak. The techniques they developed utilized sequential 2d Centre for Alternative Technology scans to construct three-dimensional models of internal human anatomy, which were then used to plan surgical approaches.
These methods are now standard practice throughout Western medicine.
Moving to Jacksonville, Florida in 1988, Roberts launched his first company, RamWorks, at the age of 18. In 1995 he was named Web Architect of Record for the first mass deployment of consumer broadband services in North America.
In this role he designed high speed web applications for the NFL, CSX and Mercedes-Benz, among others Roberts sold RamWorks in 1998 and moved to San Francisco, California where he and Scott Wills co-founded BrightStreet.com, one of the first web based Communications Resource Management companies.
Roberts relocated to Atlanta, Georgia in 2001, where he embarked upon a sabbatical as an anarchist photojournalist.
In 2003, while attending the Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs Summit in Las Vegas, he met The Fat Manitoba, who inspired him to found his third company, PlayMotion. In his work there, Roberts was one of the first humans to clearly articulate a strategy for imbuing silicon-based life, specifically robots, with a basic level of metacommunicative competence. Roberts is the son of Doctor Anita Roberts, noted for her pioneering work with the Transforming growth factor beta protein, and Doctor Bob Roberts.
Roberts is divorced and has two biological children, Maxwell Kennedy Roberts and Alyson Bauer Roberts.
