Open Innovation in Robotics & UAV
summary
A kitchen table project becomes a working 2007 LEGO autopilot using IMU sensor fusion, which sparks the DIY Drones community and leads to a company that buys used pick‑and‑place machines on eBay, opens factories in Tijuana and Shenzhen and hits about $5M revenue before formalizing. Products include the multicopter Iris $750 and open platform software adopted by others; Dronecode under the Linux Foundation coordinates contributors while drones enable rapid photogrammetric 3D scanning and autonomous “follow‑me” workflows.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:27Lego Mindstorms
- 24:19Human Robot Interaction
- 28:21Big Picture
- 29:19The Open Innovation Advantages
- 30:03Architecture of Participation
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