Career
He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. When the school was still known as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (1962-1969), Robinson was head of the Mathematics and Mathematical Physics division. His main area of research is general relativity theory, particularly exact solutions to Einstein"s equations of gravitation.
He contributed to the development of the Belorussian–Robinson tensor.
Roger Penrose credited him as an important influence in the development of Twistor theory.
