I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
We are in real good shape to support putting off robotics until tomorrow. We could see that was coming.
Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.
Tape automation is really going to be the main thing, in that you're going to see big libraries, the robotics in them to handle tapes, so we get the human element out as much as possible.
We are very excited that SEEGRID has chosen this location within the City of Pittsburgh and that they share in our vision that this region, especially Lawrenceville, is prime for robotics growth,
It used to be that traditional palletizing was the norm and robotics was where you turned when you were stuck. Now robotics is a starting point.
You think about your tools and your equipment, you think about your communications with the robotics people, you think about your clearance with the orbiter, you think about what will work, and if that doesn't work, what you'll do next,
Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.
When you think of Seattle, you think of Starbucks or Microsoft. But when people think of Pittsburgh, would they say, 'Carnegie Mellon University,' the center of the universe for robotics right now? It's amazing what you find here and it's a story that needs to be told.