TECHNOLOGY
THE IDEA IS EASY, IT IS SELLING IT THAT IS THE HARD PART
Nobody understands commercializing technology products and services like Allan.
In 1979 Allan created the world’s first commercially successful smart mobile robot, the Tasman Turtle, an advanced educational product to encourage learning and problem solving in school children. Then between 1979 and 1997 he created the first autonomous navigation system, the first robot vacuum cleaners, the first service robots, during that time more mobile robots than anyone. Educational, hobby, toy robots, industrial, stair climbing, television, research, luggage robots, walking robots, sensor technologies, navigation technologies, and more. For his own company and for the likes of General Electric, Radio Shack, Moulinex, Tomy, NASA. In 1979 his Tasman Turtle educational Logo robot could speak, be controlled by voice in any language, display rudimentary navigation and mapping and path planning. even learning through Pavlovian conditioning. But his technology interests started with neural nets and vision systems, novel car engines running on water, heart lung machines and transplant surgery, management systems, business machines and more. The Australian Federal Minister for Science and Technology once described Allan as one of Australia’s key technologists. He was Invited Visiting Scientist to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1989/90 and has guest lectured on robotics, technology commercialisation, AI, entrepreneurialism and business management at universities like UTas, CMU, Texas A&M, Singapore, Sydney University and Harvard.
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