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.

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

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

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.