I was at a great MIT Enterprise Forum event last night focused on robotics. It was interesting to hear that one of the challenges that many of the panelists discussed was the need for better training of both the users of the robots and of the future robotic engineers.
Rod Brooks, the co-founder and CTO of iRobot, showed a great example of reducing the need for user training by simplifying the user interface for their PackBot by adding a game controller! Suddenly, their target audience (18 - 20 year old males) could pick up the controller and just “play” with the robot and figure it out.
Deborah Theobald, the CEO of Vecna, is working to provide schools with robotic tools and teaching supplies so that more students have the opportunity to work on robots. Her goal is to help increase the number of experienced students moving into the robotics industry.
I think if you took some of the tools Vecna is providing to schools and combined it with a Collaborative Learning process that would allow students, their teachers, and robotics experts to share their ideas and experiences, we could rapidly increase the innovation in the Robotics Industry.
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