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Speaker: Ben Kehoe
Cloud Robotics Research Scientist @iRobot
Ben Kehoe is a Cloud Robotics Research Scientist at iRobot, and uses the internet to enable robots to do more and better things. He completed his PhD in December 2014 at UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on cloud-based robot grasping. His interests include the Internet of Things, the Connected Home, scalable, developer-friendly cloud architecture, and stamping out the scourge of servers.