Nic Radford
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Nicolaus Radford | |
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Born | Nicolaus Adam Radford November 5, 1977 Champaign, Illinois, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Purdue University |
Occupation(s) | Engineer Roboticist Inventor Entrepreneur |
Website | houstonmechatronics |
Nicolaus Adam Radford known as Nic Radford (born November 5, 1977) is an American engineer, roboticist, inventor, and entrepreneur raising over $250mm in funding for his companies. He is the former president and CEO of Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Preceding the DRC, he operated as deputy and chief engineer for
Early life and education
Born in
A chronic ankle injury prevented him from pursuing track beyond his freshman year.After starting his career at
Career
Early career
After graduating from Purdue University with his
NASA
In 2008, Radford became a civil servant at
In Slate's 2015 article "Bot Looks Like a Lady", Radford discussed how NASA "missed a big opportunity" to inspire a new generation of women and girls, in maintaining their official stance that Valkyrie is gender neutral. He referred to his then seven-year-old daughter as proof, "She absolutely was in love with this robot. It was a major source of inspiration for her. She talked about it all the time. She drew pictures of Valkyrie."[36] IEEE Spectrum's video where Radford introduced Valkyrie as NASA's Superhero Robot acquired over 2 million views.[37] Radford attempted to shed light on the controversy indicating that Valkyrie was designed to be of the female form from the beginning.[35]
Houston Mechatronics, Inc
HMI was established in 2014 with other
Radford has given many interviews and several invited talks on the subject.[9][45][46][47] In 2015, he appeared in the documentary 'Ancient Aliens 2015: Aliens and Robots.'[48]
The company began working on an autonomous unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), Aquanaut, capable of operating deeper than 3,000 m in December 2017.[49]
Influences and inspiration
Radford's papers and works have been cited over 790 times.
Radford's biggest inspiration is the challenge. According to his interview in IEEE Spectrum's article "Houston Mechatronics Raises $20M to Bring NASA Expertise to Transforming Robot Submersibles," Radford states, "Personally, I’ve found the transition to be invigorating. Starting a company is quite different than working for a government robotics research lab, but probably the biggest difference is the risk posture: startups are all about huge risks for huge returns. There is something so palatable about taking on the entrenched establishment in an industry, calling them out and saying, "I know you’ve been here for a while, but I think you’re doing it all wrong." There's a reason NASA didn't start SpaceX; oftentimes established organizations don't know of any other way to do what they do, and that's what's so thrilling about starting a new company— taking the risks."[44]
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