Manufacturing at Scale: From Concept to Retail, Lessons Learned From Scott Miller

Today, Scott Miller reflects back on design engineering lessons learned from his career with Disney, Hasbro and iRobot, and looks ahead to the future of the industry. We discuss Miller's work bringing robots to life and the challenges associated with successfully scaling manufacturing from concept to retail. Finally, we turn our attention to future innovations in robotics and the impact of those developments to the industry's approach to design and manufacturing.

Scott Miller, the CEO and Co-Founder of Dragon Innovation, worked on a robotic tuna fish, life-size robotic dinosaurs for Disney Imagineering, and robotic baby dolls with Hasbro, before joining iRobot where he was responsible for leading the Roomba team to scale the functional prototype to high-volume production of the first three million units.