Flux: Robot Queen Helen Greiner on robots, drones and the self-aware Roomba

Alice Lloyd GeorgeContributor

Robot Queen Helen Greiner on robots

Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier engineering.

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Helen Greiner Early days and education
Greiner was born in London in 1967. Her father came to England as a refugee from Hungary, and met his wife, Helen's mother, at the University of London. At the age of 5 the family moved to Southampton, New York, USA.At the age of ten Greiner went to see the popular film Star Wars. She has said she was inspired to work with robots by R2D2 in the film . Helen Greiner graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and earned her Master's there (SM) in 1990.
Source :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Greiner
The facets about Halen Greiner
For roboticist Helen Greiner the future is not found in the pages of a science fiction novel; the future is here and now. As president and cofounder of the iRobot Corporation, she is responsible for helping to advance the accessibility of robots, which are mechanical devices that perform functions automatically or by remote control. Most of iRobot's inventions have been designed for use in the military or in industry, but with technology costs decreasing, the company's consumer robot market is starting to take off. Greiner predicts that within a few years almost every home in the United States will have a robot to perform such tasks as housecleaning and babysitting. Her company's vision, as she told Elizabeth Durant of Technology Review, is to "get robots into everyone's hands."

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