technical fearlessness

"We had it carrying about 1,000 pounds at one time."

"I think having good hardware is part of the story, and people who think you don’t need to innovate hardware anymore are wrong."

"The media likes to say that they’re terrifying and that people are afraid, and YouTube commenters like to say that it’s frightening. But when you take a Spot out there, maybe it’s self-selecting, but you get a crowd of people who want to take pictures, want to pose for selfies, want to operate the robot, want to pet it, want to put clothes on it."

"Technical fearlessness means being willing to take on a problem that you don’t know how to solve, and study it, figure out an entry point, maybe a simplified version, or a simplified solution or something, learn from the stepping stone, and go back and eventually make a solution that meets your goals."

"I personally don’t think it’s worth worrying about that. I think that it’s balancing opportunities and risk."