An Interview with Chris Osterwood

Welcome Chris Osterwood of Capable Robot Components!

Robotics is a world of overlapping incompatible constraints

• See all of the robots Chris was discussing on his homepage
• "How do you (Chris Osterwood) define robots?"
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• Article about automation
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• 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
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• Now making the thing that people need to buy
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• GigE on card
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• 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
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• Butter robot
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• Challenge of time
  • 0h 56m 38s
• Camera systems
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• 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
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• Check out the SenseTemp, coming up on CrowdSupply
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