I got started building robots when I was
fairly young I took a lot of things
apart from appliances in the kitchen to
toys, to really get to the fundamentals
of the motors and all the parts that
make up a lot of these everyday devices.
Nice thing about robotics is there's so
many aspects to it, you've got
the mechanical system, you've got the
electronics that control the programming
and all these things have to come
together to build a robot.
Robotics right now in general is a very hot field and
it's going to be like this for a long time.
There are lots of interesting
people and jobs here at iRobot, engineers
like mechanical electrical software
engineers who do everything from design
work, turning screws on robots that is
necessary to make them a reality.
Employers are looking for people who
have the ability to grow, that they are
adaptable because the industry is going
to continue to change and evolve so
rapidly that they're going to change and
evolve with it.
In the future I would see robots everywhere from performing tasks
and chores to being very useful
productive tools in the office space.
Health care robots are something that my
group has worked on for a long time
we've done work in terms of developing
intelligent wheelchairs, intelligent
smart interfaces to help people who have
disabilities of various kinds use
technology to improve their quality of life.
You can be the person to get back
broken robots and figures out what went
wrong with them. You could be the person
who figures out how existing robots can
be improved, how they can be made cheaper,
how they could be more robust.
One of the big areas for people who want to get
into robotics is industrial robotics
there's a huge need for qualified
technicians that can program the robots and
set them up to manufacture products.
People who possess the technical and
problem-solving skills, those are going
to be the sought-after skills that
are going to be the sought-after jobs.
Because they're going to be high-paying
you're going to be able to negotiate
what you want.
In South Carolina we're behind by about twenty thousand
jobs and that's just one state there's a huge
demand for qualified technicians.
If you have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit,
you know be my own boss, do my own
thing, there's lots of opportunities for that.
There's teenagers that are actually
starting businesses based on things that
they've designed themselves from all this
technology that's available now and integrating it
into new products.
The future of robotics is unlimited, become whatever
you want to become in robotics.
