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Robert Peterson is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor working for Pixar. Bob Peterson was born in Wooster, Ohio, USA in 1961. He studied mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, taking computer graphics courses, and graduated in 1983. He continued his mechanical engineering education at Purdue University, where he earned a master's degree in 1986. While a student, he wrote and drew a cartoon called Loco Motives. Before joining Pixar in 1994, he worked at Wavefront Technologies, Inc. and Rez-n-8 Productions. He co-directed Up in 2009 and was one of the co-screenwriters for Finding Nemo in 2003 and Cars 3 in 2017.