Stories about me.
After leaving iRobot in November 2006, three colleagues and I founded Harvest Automation, Inc. Over several years we researched a new application, secured funding, and built a robotic product that worked as we intended. Founding In early 2006, having spent 10… Read More »Harvest Automation, Part 1
With great expectations my coauthor, Tom Fitzgerald, and I sat down for a meeting with iRobot’s CEO. The time was early 2003 and, since just before Roomba’s launch the previous year, Tom and I had been working on a book titled Making… Read More »Dancing with Roomba, A History
I spent much of my early life terrified of public speaking. The thought of being the center of attention, acting on stage, or talking to a group of people filled me with primal dread. But at the MIT AI Lab,… Read More »Trial by Fire… Alarm
If I worked on non-robotic technology, say high-speed fiber optic communication systems, I expect I would rarely get advice from lay people. It’s hard to imagine meeting a poet or a lawyer at a party, describing that sort of work,… Read More »Armchair Roboticist