>> if he is right, one day, drones will be everywhere. company manufactures self flying planes. ceo has been anything but direct. he has been a punk rocker. a particle physicist. editor of wired magazine. a three-time officer joining me today is chris anderson.

thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i would love to hear about the day when you started playing around with robots. >> it was a big day. my origins were as a scientist. we hope to someday our kids excited by science and technology. so far no luck, but we keep trying. when we can i was the editor of wired. these products would come in. if you promised to review them, you could take it home. done, you get to this tripod that rolls slowly. the kids are like, you have to be kidding. >> they were not impressed. >> we have seen transformers. i've flighty plane into the tree.

total disaster. what could have been better? what if the robot is flying the plane? i literally googled flying robot and the first result was drone. i said kids, we are going to build a legal autopilot. lego autopilot. the next weekend come we flew it ended almost flew. the kids lost interest. >> what year was this? >> 2007. >> this was before drones were cool. happened that moment i got chills. it should not be possible for us to build this.

this hardware renaissance is all starting in 2007. the gut is the chips, the processors. the reason regular people were able to do things like drones is the essential enabling technologies were no available to everybody. the question was, what are we going to do with them. >> by drones you mean something with its own brain. >> drones are aircraft that fly themselves. you can if you want manually control them, but you don't have to. what that is is essentially a flying robot. it's not a flying robot. it is taunus. -- economists. utonomous.

>> once you just said we were going to do this, how did you start? >> this is about 2009. i am like, here is my prototype. now i need to buy these parts. met jack ma. . i am like, this is where you buy your parts. i need to buy some parts. 10 minutes later, a crate shows up. 5000 parts made to my custom spec. i was stunned. gottenhills that i had robots in china to work for me. >> how did you go from journalist to drone company ceo? community started the and it takes off. people started talking but doing things together. designing drones.

i started putting parts into cardboard pizza boxes with my children. that is not work -- did not work well. it was clear it had to be like a real company. i invited the smartest guy on the site and said, you want to hook up with me? i said, sure. initially, he was 19. by the time we sued the company, he was maybe 20 or 21. been doing itd for a couple of beers. become it was doing like $5 million in revenues. i realized he had built a real company with his friends, many of them from tijuana. i was like, it is amazing to read it is ready to go to the next stage. how likely is it drones will

be delivering my amazon package? ♪ >> what is the mission of 3-d

robotics? >> to create a leading platform. thereason is to put it in hands of regular people. >> what do you make? >> drones, autopilots. enlarge, -- by in large, we make a platform. >> what are your drones capable of? >> that is the exciting part three of the drones started by being able to fly on their own. the big driver is putting grow -- go pros in the air, putting video. to sweep around, capture your life the way hollywood directors to without any skilled for me

that is what drones can do with video. any commercial domain, to be p the world and digitize surroundings. we can scan any building anywhere. turn it into a 3-d model. >> what industries will drones revolutionize? revolutionconsumer and it will begin to be a commercial revolution as well. one industry is agriculture. minimizing chemical use and farms. construction is another one. we can only manage what we can measure. have you digital flies -- how do digital eyes the workflow for construction? the answer is to see the progress of construction, the deviation. the changes from day to day.

without it even being there. >> what is the coolest thing you have seen a drone do? a long list. >> choose one. >> one is a follow me function. as you bike or ski or whatever, the drone follows you. to automatically capture this moment. when you are done, push a button and it flies home. >> what you make of the interest on google, facebook, and amazon. >> amazon is interested in drone delivery. google is interested in a number of things. i think both of them are thrilling. there are great technology company's with deep pockets. it is the classic swords to how shares moment -- plowshares moment. positivehope that the uses will drown out the old

military uses. the amazon but it was the first time people thought of them in a nonmilitary context. >> how likely is it that they will deliver amazon packages? >> it is some ways off to read >> how long? >> a decade. delivering to the center, where you could pick up the package. warehouse to warehouse, we can do that today. rural areas is easy. what you get -- once you get delivering to a front doorstep, that is a little hard. could start to get the next generation of mailboxes where certain homes and up with machine-readable delivery boxes. >> you are saying this is going to happen. maybe it is a decade out but it will happen. >> it is happening now in limited ways. dhl has an experiment in germany where they are delivering pharmaceuticals to an island.

we will see it happening in places with small, high-value packages. >> is there any reason it will not happen? >> regulations. in the u.s., it is not legal. >> the faa is considering changing the rules. how are those conversations going? >> they are going. the mandate is the safety of the national airspace. it was designed around manned aircraft. human pilot and passengers. what we have is a different kind of problem. small vehicles. small,y -- drones are so flying so low and so smart, they himessentially navigate cells. we do not need air traffic control. we are arguing for a sandbox. tell us what altitude, distance, weight and speed.

what areas they are allowed to fly in and then create this open spectrum, open airspace. where the technology industry can innovate with minimal regulations. >> how safe are they and how much safer are they going to be in the future? >> the safety has to do with the size. if it is the size of your hand, even if it were to fall out of the sky, it is lighter than the bird. it is intrinsically sacred if it hit your house, it would not do any damage. if it hit you, it wouldn't do much. measure isafety technological. these things are smart. they do not fall asleep or not texting. they know where they are at all times. when robots are done right, they are safer than humans. >> how about google's operation? airplane went with an model, good for long distances.

amazon with a helicopter model, for short distances. both have their place. the google one is very smart. it has the ability to use aerodynamics to travel for maybe even hundreds of miles. it is difficult to hover in place and angle a package -- dangle a package. i love the effect that google and amazon are doing this with different approaches. you cannot ask for two better companies. >> does amazon or google when? -- win? >> there is a place for both of them have apex facebook is buying drone companies as well. a dronehave bought company to compete with

connecting the developing world. there you are competing with balloons. their natural instinct is to float. a drone's instinct is to fall. the great thing about the drones as they can stay in one place where the balloons float around with the wind. there is a case for both of them. >> do you see big companies on a collision course? complementary. is the beginning of the drone age. everyis room for buddy. they will be in farms, you will see drones over cities. maybe there will be police drones, maybe they will be doing delivery. >> how do they change our lives? >> how does google street view change her life? you can see the world around you.

you can see it from air level as well. to get that same notion of simultaneous information about the world around us, we can see real-time high-resolution data. >> how worried should we be about robots taking our jobs? human extension? >> you went there. >> i went there. by and large doing jobs that are not being done at all. >> there is the ups guy taking the package. >> that is a ways off. ups is good at what they do. when it comes to thrones, they are doing jobs that are not being done. robots are good at doing jobs that are doled, dirty, and dangerous. jobs people shouldn't or do not want to do. >> how much will this cost? is it economical for a farmer to have multiple drones flying over his crops? read --they cost $750

>> today they cost $750. you might not even by one, not just -- just the data. >> will they ever be able to steal? there is other kinds of intelligence. the internet is much better than us at many things. perhaps it is already intelligent on some level we cannot define. the singularity may have not happened, not just to mention we can measure. >> what about emotional intelligence? will computers ever have emotions? x i don't know. -- >> i don't know. yes. depends on how you define it. >> should we be scared? >> i assume it one power us and we-- it will empower us but

will see. >> what do with 3-d robotics? >> make these things as easily as possible. if we can make them in the hands of regular people, we will have one. >> google and facebook have been snapping up companies. have they tried to you? to everybody. >> is selling to me what to do? >> we haven't thought about it read -- thought about it. >> what do you prefer, being a journalist or ceo? ♪ >> you started off studying

physics and quantum mechanics. >> i thought it was exciting. i wanted to study it after failing out of college and doing punk rock. it was a change. i hit a dead end. the golden age of physics was over. to wally everybody went

street. >> and he became a journalist. >> my parents were journalists and i had promised i would never do that. >> you worked at two journals, nature and science. you went on to the economist. and then wired. editor in chief, 2001. just as the bubble -- though it didme, not feel that way at the moment. my clear -- career makes no , at the economist, i said, i want to start on internet coverage. this started me on the path of chronicling this remarkable moment in our history. 2001, they called me and said, would you like to edit wired, i said absolutely.

>> was it depressing? >> super depressing. 2001, a year after the.com implosion. implosion.e dotcom there was a lot of interest in seeing it go away, not just because of the financial crash but because it was threatening to industries. i was betting they were all wrong. i was betting the bubble had been a stock market phenomena, not a technology hoax. the internet had just started, it was as big as everyone thought and it was real. i moved here in the greatest of all -- the worst of all times. cky as an editor for 18 months. thing, it was a great time to hire talent. all the smart people had come during the bubble. they were available. once i did start to get

traction, my -- >> what do you prefer, being a journalist or ceo? >> running a magazine come we shipped a product every month. websites, web stories. a team of about the same size. took ideas and package them into a product. it is more similar than you think. the difference that our factories were printing and now they make drones. >> what is the myth of chris anderson and the reality? >> i'm lucky to be at the right place at the right time. i failed out of college. didn't do particularly well in school. no particular genius, i was just lucky to be here at the birth of the internet at silicon valley at the right time. if i have a talent, it is connecting the dots. i have been privileged to see the dots early on. it enough to see where we were going.

>> you have written three books. will we see another? x i am busy. i don't the you can run a company and write a book at the same time. >> of the things you have done, what is the most fun? what you enjoy? >> every flight a -- friday, we fly. we have an open house. people in the community come together and show with a are doing. every friday, my job is on the floor. e-mails and spreadsheets all week. that on fridays, i see drones do things i have never seen. it was as amazing as it was in 2007. >> what is next for you? ask more drones, bigger company. the more people to experience what i have been lucky enough to experience. >> how do you want to be remembered? >> that i helped start an industry that change the world. >> chris anderson, ceo and founder of 3-d robotics. thank you so much.

>> thank you. ♪

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