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Yulia Frumer is a science history professor at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and an expert in robotics history.
Her research interests have naturally followed the rise of robotics in East Asia because much of robotics has been pioneered in Japan.
Frumer was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She has lived in Israel, Japan, Germany, and the United States. She’s a polyglot, which means she speaks several languages. Frumer is fluent in English, Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese, and she’s conversant in several other languages.
Her first book, , examined concepts of time by looking back on clockmakers. They were
