Trevor Blackwell
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Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969, in Canada) is a Canadian-Americanentrepreneur and roboticist based in England.[2]
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. Blackwell is the founder and former CEO of
Y Combinator
.
Life and career
Blackwell grew up in
Computer Science at Harvard University and received a PhD in 1998. His dissertation applied randomized methods to analyzing the performance of networks and compilers.[3]
During graduate school Blackwell joined
Yahoo in 1998, and Blackwell moved to Silicon Valley to lead the Yahoo Store development group.[citation needed
]
He founded Anybots in 2001 to build teleoperated humanoid robots. In 2006, Anybots announced a humanoid robot that walks and balances like people do, without depending on large feet for stability.[4]
As side projects, he has built two other balancing vehicles: a two-wheeled balancing scooter similar to the Segway but with different steering, and the self-balancing
open design of the machine.[citation needed
]
He co-founded
Y Combinator
in 2005.
References
- ^ "https://twitter.com/tlbtlbtlb/status/1628550454509703168?t=lfuZQsTBERZCnI11EMdHeg&s=19". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
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- ^ "Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots interviewed by The Social Radars Podcast".
- ^ "Applications of Randomness in System Performance Measurement". Tlb.org. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
- ^ "Anybots · About the Robots". Anybots.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
External links
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