I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.