Congratulations to Prakash (Sub Vallapuzha) for his presentation to President Obama at CMU's NREC.
Obama says U.S. must invest in high-tech manufacturing
View full sizePresident Barack Obama is shown the working of SOLO, a Pipe Inspection Robot, by Sub Vallapuzha, right, and Ken Wolf,second from left, and Sam Cancilla as he tours Carnegie Mellon Universit's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Pittsburgh, Friday.
Published: Friday, June 24, 2011, 1:24 PM Updated: Friday, June 24, 2011, 1:26 PM
View full sizePresident Barack Obama is shown the working of SOLO, a Pipe Inspection Robot, by Sub Vallapuzha, right, and Ken Wolf,second from left, and Sam Cancilla as he tours Carnegie Mellon Universit's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Pittsburgh, Friday.PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama called on Friday for a "renaissance in American manufacturing" that would replace shuttered steel mills with plants producing robotics, nanotechnology and other high-tech advances.
The president said this resurgence is how the country will create new jobs and stay competitive in a global marketplace where other countries are making great strides.
Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a city that's taken hits from the decline of traditional manufacturing sectors like steel, Obama called for a joint effort by industry, universities and the federal government to help reposition the United States as a leader in cutting-edge manufacturing.
"We have not run out of stuff to make, we've just got to reinvigorate our manufacturing sector so that it leads the world the way it always has, from paper and steel and cars to new products we haven't even dreamed up yet," Obama said at Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center.
"That's how we're going to strengthen existing industries, that's how we're going spark new ones," he said. "That's how we're going to create jobs, grow the middle class and secure our economic leadership."
The president spoke after viewing projects at the center, including small robots that can enter sewer systems, and learning about technologies to create, among other things, next-generation diapers.
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FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2011 12:27
Our own Jim O'Toole was in the press pool for the presidential visit to CMU and Obama's time hanging with Kilroy Ned. Here's his dispatch:
President arrived in back room of Carnegie-Mellon Robotics center in Lawrenceville shortly after 10:30 am. He wore light blue suit, white shirt, red patterned tie. At first stop he was greeted by Regina Dugan, director of DARPA, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, and Lt. Col. Nathan Wiedenman, program manager for project in which Local Motors developed combat support vehicle parked behind them through "crowd-sourcing" _ basically an Internet driven collaborative process in which outsiders compete to offer design proposals.
"So what've we got here,'' president said as he entered. After a briefing from the trio, he said, "That's really cool.'' He leaned into the driver's side window, but said, "They don't let me drive.'' Then he headed to an exhibit of a sewer and water pipe inspection robot, a tracked cylindrical gizmo about 15 inches long, whose name, it emerged, was Ned.
After some descriptions from three executives of Red Zone, a private robotics firm with CMU roots _ Ken Wolf, Sub Vallapuzha, Sam Cancilla _ Mr. Obama took the controls, a laptop touch screen, and said, "Let's see how Ned does.'' "He's sending back data as he's going through?'' Mr. Obama said at one point. 'This is pretty fascinating,'' he said later as he watched the torpedo-shaped device crawl through the pipe.
He turned to reporters, noted Red Zones ties with CMU, and government support of research there. " ... Government -funded research resulting in new products, new companies, new jobs.''
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