Don't know if this is what you're asking for. The author who wrote Robopocalypse has a PhD in Robotics. This novel (and other novels) is about...robots. Robopocalypse is about how robots take over the world (different than I, Robot the movie). It has some really awesome possibilities of what robots can do in the future. Anyway, obviously, he took his knowledge about robots to create the robots in his book and build the world and write the storyline.
Not my favorite book, though.