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

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

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

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.

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

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