his name is walter siggelkow.s from sudbury, which is sort of the mining capital of canada, certainly, and maybe even of north america, and his mining expertise is shared by almost everybody in that town. and one day, he and his buddies were sitting around a beer, and they thought of doing better with the remote equipment that existed. there was remote equipment that you could send into the shafts without putting a miner's life at risk, but it wasn't very well done. and he started tinkering, and he's a robotics engineer, and he started looking at it more closely, and as he says, he finally built a better mousetrap. his buddies, some of them stayed in the business, some of them didn't, but from that conversation around a beer came hard-line solutions, a company that is now present not only in canada, in south america, but all over the world. it's a company, in a sense, that is making mining much safer and therefore much better. herealter siggelkow. walter siggelkow, entrepreneurs get launched for all kinds of reaso