Welcome to Solving For Tomorrow: Tales from the Tech Frontier!

In our first episode, we sit down with Daniel Theobald, Founder and CEO of Mekable, Founder and Chairman of Vecna Robotics, and Co-founder and President of MassRobotics. 

Daniel shares his journey into engineering, driven by creativity and a strong influence from his non-technical father. He discusses the importance of being hands-on, multidisciplinary, and building a thoughtful technological future.

Brian and Daniel discuss the potential of technology in agriculture, emphasizing the need for affordable, healthy food and sustainable farming practices. Daniel's vision for the future includes leveraging ubiquitous computing and sensors to optimize large-scale systems for efficiency and environmental protection.

Then, in The Post-Fix, Brian teaches Harriet about the TV show House, playing darts in the Geisel Software office, and how play can lead to a breakthrough.

Guest Quote: 

“I think about what type of world I want my children to live in in the future.  And how important it is for us to not just blindly rush forward into a technological future thoughtlessly. We need to be more thoughtful than ever about the kind of world we want to create with this technology.” - Daniel Theobald

Time Stamps:

00:58 Creativity in Engineering

11:50 What's Fact or Fiction with AI?

16:18 Empowering Humanity with Robotics

23:10 The Future of Food

28:53 Play and Efficiency in Engineering

37:30 Writing Code in Your Dreams

43:12 Building Code from the Ground Up 

49:00 The Post-Fix

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Solving for Tomorrow is sponsored by Geisel Software. We help you create products that seamlessly automate the physical and virtual worlds using robotics, machine learning, and so much more. Find out more at geisel.software.

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Links:

Follow Daniel on LinkedIn

MassRobotics.org

Follow Brian Geisel on LinkedIn