Interviews

Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities

Dmitry Grishin and Hallie Siegel 25 Jul 2013

As part of our series on high-risk, high-reward robotics, and as a follow-up to his recent Robot's Podcast interview, I asked entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dmitry Grishin to talk to us about how...

Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics

Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel 18 Jul 2013

As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada

Florian Röhrbein 17 May 2013

Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that indust...

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro

Florian Röhrbein 22 Apr 2013

The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks

Florian Röhrbein 05 Apr 2013

This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...

Robot startup series #4: Chris Anderson at CES 2013

Andra Keay 11 Jan 2013

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and author of The Long Tail, Free and the newly published Makers, speaks about the new industrial revolution, how easy it is these d...

A conversation with NASA’s Dave Lavery

Eric Wind 09 Jan 2013

On Monday, I had the opportunity and pleasure to have a discussion with NASA's Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, Dave Lavery. During the course of the conversation, Dave answered my ques...