{"id":9381,"date":"2007-01-01T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2007-01-01T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:24:42","slug":"interview-with-mark-tilden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9381","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mark Tilden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/mark_tilden.gif\">EEBeat has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eebeat.com\/?p=536\" target=\"new\">short interview<\/a> with BEAM and Robosapien inventor Mark Tilden. Some interesting tidbits in the piece, like how Mark engineered the RS2 by cannibalizing the RS1 and using his analog &#8220;nervous net&#8221; technology, but then &#8220;setting these patterns in digital silicon for reliability.&#8221; He and WowWee also custom-designed the motors and gearboxes &#8220;pushing the concept of &#8216;toygrade&#8217; to the limits while still keeping costs low.&#8221; (If you read Rodney Brooks&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flesh-Machines-Robots-Will-Change\/dp\/0375420797\/sr=8-1\/qid=1167704167\/streettech-20\" target=\"new\">Flesh and Machines<\/a> &#8212; where he talks about trying to bring his iRobot Real Baby to market and how insane the margins are on toys, with parts needing to cost less than nothing &#8212; you can appreciate what level of innovation needs to go into something like a Robosapien or Roboreptile to keep them within toy price ranges.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EEBeat has a short interview with BEAM and Robosapien inventor Mark Tilden. Some interesting tidbits in the piece, like how Mark engineered the RS2 by cannibalizing the RS1 and using his analog &#8220;nervous net&#8221; technology, but then &#8220;setting these patterns in digital silicon for reliability.&#8221; He and WowWee also custom-designed the motors and gearboxes &#8220;pushing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with Mark Tilden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}