I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

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

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

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

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

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