For the past few years I served on the board of a Las Vegas start-up company that was developing robotic concepts for hotels and casinos. The company worked with faculty from the engineering college at UNLV, leveraging what they learned in the 2015 DARPA robotics challenge. I mention this because people always said what we did in casinos and hotels “wasn’t rocket science”; well, this was. We all know about robots in manufacturing plants and warehouses, but they’re not so common, or intuitive, in hotels. Sure, there are robotic bartenders and vacuum cleaners, but some things being developed today, using artificial intelligence, point the way for future developments. Such as: robots, with AI interfaces, always being available to listen and respond in multiple languages rather than having to track down employees who can come do the same. These were difficult challenges, and there were both successes and failures along the way: but, like today’s author says, creating great things is supposed to be hard. It was an exciting entrepreneurial effort, producing great ideas just a little ahead of their time. Find your path to truly new, never-been-done-before things today.
Regina E. Dugan (b. 1963): American businesswoman, inventor, technology developer and first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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