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Dr. Jean Duteau

Dr. Jean Duteau, a robotic engineer, entrepreneur, and geek dad with 35 years of real-world robotics experience. In the late 1980’s he founded Rochester Robotics, which designed and integrated service robots for home, industry, nuclear inspection, & elderly assistance. In 1994 Dr. Duteau was instrumental in the successful design and development of the Blue Newton with the Assistance of Graduate students from R.I.T (Rochester Institute of Technology). The Blue NEWTON Won 1st Place at the prestigious BEAM (Of Marc Tilden Fame) International Robot Olympics in Toronto Canada (1994 and 1995 respectively).Dr. Duteau and Newton have appeared on National TV shows such as ABC Nightline, CNN technology news and recently on Telemundo Robotic segment. He was featured in Nuclear News in 1995 for his design of Robots used for the remote inspection of secondary Steam generator in nuclear reactors. His inspection Robots performed groundbreaking Visual inspection of the Reactor coolant pump Impeller at Three Mile Island (TMI) unit 1, and the Beaver valley nuclear plant. Dr. Duteau is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer, He hold a PhD. in Information Technology. Present day, he is teaching children to solve real-world problems with robots in a collaborative team-building environment, and thus generating intense interest and excitement for Science, Technology and Robotics.