Interests
What I do when I am not building robots.
Twenty races, six countries, and counting
Formula One
I have been to more than twenty F1 Grand Prix races in six countries. It is engineering as a spectator sport — the car that wins is the one whose team learned fastest between sessions, not just the one with the fastest driver.
I have been to races in the USA, UK, Monaco, Canada, Bahrain and China. Many more are on the list.


The next space race
Space
I saw the Space Shuttle launch in 1996. Nearly thirty years later I stood at Starbase, Texas, and watched Starship — the largest rocket ever built — on the pad.
Same instinct that got me into robotics: watching people solve a hard physical problem in front of everyone, mistakes included.
Squash
6am, three mornings a week, at Lifetime. Still the best hour of exercise I know.
Pickleball
Usually right after squash, twice a week. I won a doubles tournament with my partner — the trophy has a paddle on it and I am not going to pretend I am not pleased about that.
Tennis is my go-to spectator racket sport — I just don’t play.

Travel
Not my jet 🙂

AI and robotics
The interest that stopped being a hobby. See Innovations for where it went.