Tell us about your interest in robotics. What are your first memories of robots (how did you understand that a robot is a robot, and so on). And how did you get here.

I’ll start with myself. Probably my first conscious understanding and knowledge of robots appeared when I watched the movie “The Terminator”. Now I am interested in robotics only in theory, but this is for now. It will be interesting to hear your stories.

Certainly not my first experience or first exposure to robotics, but one of the more impactful: I had gone into mechanical engineering primarily because I really enjoyed things that were powered and moved (as broad as that is). Although I had initially thought my path would be g…

I was about 12 or 13 when my mother had a Macintosh LC575 and I used to purchase the magazine MacAddict without fail, every month (before it became MacLife, or whatever). Life was grand. The mag used to come with random software that the writers liked, including a bunch of graph…

[image] cbenson: Certainly not my first experience or first exposure to robotics, but one of the more impactful: I had gone into mechanical engineering primarily because I really enjoyed things that were powered and moved (as broad as that is). Although I had initially thoug…

[image] cowolter: I was about 12 or 13 when my mother had a Macintosh LC575 and I used to purchase the magazine MacAddict without fail, every month (before it became MacLife, or whatever). Life was grand. The mag used to come with random software that the writers liked, incl…

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