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#425 – An Interview with Chris Osterwood

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Welcome Chris Osterwood of Capable Robot Components!

Robotics is a world of overlapping incompatible constraints

  • See all of the robots Chris was discussing on his homepage
  • “How do you (Chris Osterwood) define robots?”
    • 0h 0m 39s
  • Article about automation
    • 0h 1m 29s
  • High school job at java services company
    • 0h 4m 14s
  • Chris graduated from Carnegie Mellon University
    • 0h 4m 37s
  • Field robotics
    • 0h 5m 7s
  • Robotics club
    • 0h 5m 32s
  • Mechatronics program didn’t exist then
    • 0h 6m 9s
  • Trinamic
    • 0h 8m 1s
  • Chips focusing on vision
    • 0h 9m 5s
  • Rocket equation
    • 0h 9m 33s
  • Cerebellum controller based on PICs
    • 0h 10m 39s
  • Red Zone Robotics
    • 0h 11m 6s
  • Robots that do nuclear cleanup
    • 0h 11m 43s
  • 600 pound, under 80 feet of pressure
    • 0h 12m 11s
  • Sewer infrastructure
    • 0h 13m 35s
  • Fully autonomous robot for residential pipes
    • 0h 14m 31s
  • Bug story
    • 0h 18m 27s
  • Drive train
    • 0h 20m 53s
  • Make vs Buy
    • 0h 25m 35s
  • Carnegie robotics
    • 0h 29m 8s
  • Robot that reduces runoff in fields
    • 0h 29m 19s
  • Algal blooms
    • 0h 30m 16s
  • Applying nitrogen later
    • 0h 30m 38s
  • Precision agriculture
    • 0h 34m 43s
  • Promoted to CTO of Carnegie Robotics
    • 0h 35m 25s
  • Spec’ing out systems
    • 0h 36m 5s
  • NREC – National Robotics Engineering Center
    • 0h 37m 41s
  • Carnegie Robotics was the commercialization partner
    • 0h 39m 16s
  • Left and started Capable Robotics Components
    • 0h 40m 46s
  • Now making the thing that people need to buy
    • 0h 41m 3s
  • GigE on card
    • 0h 41m 54s
  • USB hub on a card
    • 0h 42m 7s
  • Test equipment
    • 0h 42m 29s
  • Defining the interfaces
    • 0h 48m 4s
  • IDEO library of materials
    • 0h 49m 26s
  • Component libraries in house
    • 0h 50m 48s
  • Ground robotics is changing
    • 0h 53m 30s
  • Scene in 5th element choking on cherry
    • 0h 54m 26s
  • Butter robot
    • 0h 55m 5s
  • Challenge of time
    • 0h 56m 38s
  • Camera systems
    • 0h 57m 58s
  • Intel real sense
    • 0h 59m 17s
  • Mikrobus
    • 1h 3m 34s
  • Selling based on a datasheet
    • 1h 6m 46s
  • “Robotics is a world of overlapping incompatible constraints”
    • 1h 11m 23s
  • To work at a robotics company you don’t need to know robotics or mechanics
    • 1h 12m 27s
  • @osterwood
    • 1h 15m 34s
  • osterwood.com
    • 1h 15m 40s
  • capablerobot.com
    • 1h 16m 2s
  • Check out the SenseTemp, coming up on CrowdSupply
    • 1h 16m 45s

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