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#425 – An Interview with Chris Osterwood
Welcome Chris Osterwood of Capable Robot Components!
Robotics is a world of overlapping incompatible constraints
- “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