ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sanjay Dastoor - Roboticist
Sanjay Dastoor is the co-founder of Boosted Boards, a startup that aims to build the world's lightest electric vehicles.

Why you should listen

Sanjay Dastoor met pals John Ulmen and Matthew Tran while studying engineering at Stanford University, where the three often found themselves talking about the need for a better way to get around campus. So they created one -- an electric longboard which they call Boosted Boards. The CEO of this Silicon Valley startup, which raised nearly a half million in crowdsourced funding through Kickstarter, Dastoor hopes to provide a new way to commute for those who live within a six-mile radius of work.

With his co-founders at Boosted, Dastoor participated in the Y Combinator and StartX incubator programs. He is finishing his PhD on bio-inspired robotics at Stanford, and he holds a MS from Stanford and a BS from UC Berkeley. He has also worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and SRI International.

More profile about the speaker
Sanjay Dastoor | Speaker | TED.com
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Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost

Sanjay Dastoor: Sanjay Dastoor: Et skateboard, med et boost

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Forestil dig et elektrisk køretøj, som kan få dig på arbejde - eller hvor som helst i en 6 mils radius - hurtigt, uden trafik frustrationer eller benzin. Forestil dig nu at du samler det op og tager det med dig. Ja, dette tunet skateboard kunne ændre ansigtet på morgendagens pendlere.
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Sanjay Dastoor is the co-founder of Boosted Boards, a startup that aims to build the world's lightest electric vehicles. Full bio

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TodayI dag I'm going to showat vise you an electricelektrisk vehiclekøretøj
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I dag vil jeg vise jer et elektrisk køretøj
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that weighsvejer lessmindre than a bicyclecykel,
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som vejer mindre end en cykel,
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that you can carrybære with you anywhereoveralt,
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som du kan bære hvorend du kommer
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that you can chargeoplade off a normalnormal wallvæg outletudløb in 15 minutesminutter,
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som du kan lade op i en
almindelig stikkontakt på 15 minutter
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and you can runløb it for 1,000 kilometerskilometer
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og som du kan køre 1000 kilometer på
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on about a dollardollar of electricityelektricitet.
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for mindre end 10 kroners elektricitet.
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But when I say the wordord electricelektrisk vehiclekøretøj,
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Men når jeg siger elektrisk køretøj
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people think about vehicleskøretøjer. They think about carsbiler
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tænker folk på køretøjer.
De tænker på biler,
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and motorcyclesmotorcykler and bicyclescykler, and the vehicleskøretøjer that you use everyhver day.
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motorcykler og cykler, den type
køretøjer som man bruger hver dag.
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But if you come about it from a differentforskellige perspectiveperspektiv,
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Hvis du ser det fra en anden synsvinkel,
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you can createskab some more interestinginteressant,
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kan du skabe nogle mere interessante,
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more novelroman conceptsbegreber.
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mere nyskabende koncepter.
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So we builtbygget something.
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Så vi byggede noget.
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I've got some of the piecesstykker in my pocketlomme here.
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Jeg har nogle stumper i min lomme her.
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So this is the motormotor.
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Så det her er motoren.
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This motormotor has enoughnok powerstrøm to take you
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Motoren har kraft til at tage dig
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up the hillsbakker of SanSan FranciscoFrancisco at about 20 milesmiles perom hourtime,
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op ad San Franciscos bakker
med 20 mil i timen,
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about 30 kilometerskilometer an hourtime,
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omkring 30 km/t,
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and this batterybatteri, this batterybatteri right here
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og batteriet, det batteri lige her
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has about sixseks milesmiles of rangerækkevidde, or 10 kilometerskilometer,
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har cirka seks mils rækkevidde,
svarende til 10 kilometer,
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whichhvilken is enoughnok to coverdække over about halfhalvt of the carbil tripsture
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hvilket er nok til at dække
omkring halvdelen af bilturene
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in the U.S. alonealene.
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i USA alene.
01:16
But the bestbedst parten del about these componentskomponenter
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Det bedste del ved disse komponenter
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is that we boughtkøbt them at a toylegetøj storebutik.
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er at vi købte dem i en legetøjsbutik.
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These are from remotefjern controlkontrollere airplanesfly.
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De er fra fjernstyrede flyvemaskiner.
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And the performanceydeevne of these things has gottenfået so good
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Præstationen af disse dele
er blevet så gode,
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that if you think about vehicleskøretøjer a little bitbit differentlyforskelligt,
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at hvis du tænker lidt anderledes
om køretøjer,
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you can really changelave om things.
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kan du virkelig ændre ting.
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So todayi dag we're going to showat vise you one exampleeksempel
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Idag vil vi vise jer et eksempel
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of how you can use this.
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på hvordan du kan bruge det.
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PayBetale attentionopmærksomhed to not only how funsjovt this thing is,
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Vær ikke kun opmærksom på
hvor sjovt det er,
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but alsoogså how the portabilitybærbarhed that comeskommer with this
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men også bærbarheden som følger med, det
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can totallyhelt changelave om the way you interactinteragere with a cityby like SanSan FranciscoFrancisco.
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kan virkelig ændre måden du interagere
med en by som San Francisco på.
01:43
(MusicMusik)
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(Musik)
02:02
[6 MileMile RangeRækkevidde] [TopTop SpeedHastighed NearI nærheden af 20mphmph]
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[6 mil rækkevidde] [Topfart nær 20 mph]
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[UphillOp ad bakke ClimbingKlatring]
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[Op af bakke]
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[RegenerativeRegenerativ BrakingBremsning]
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[Regenerative bremsning]
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(ApplauseBifald)
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(Bifald)
02:56
(CheersHej)
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(Jubel)
03:00
So we're going to showat vise you what this thing can do.
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Vi vil vise jer hvad den ting kan gøre.
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It's really maneuverablemanøvredygtig. You have a hand-heldhåndholdte remotefjern,
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Den er meget manøvredygtig.
Du har håndholdt betjening,
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so you can prettysmuk easilylet controlkontrollere accelerationacceleration, brakingbremsning,
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så du kan meget nemt styre
acceleration, brems,
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go in reversebagside if you like, alsoogså have brakingbremsning.
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køre baglæns hvis du vil,
har også bremsefunktion.
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It's incredibleutrolig just how lightlys this thing is.
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Det er utroligt så let denne ting er.
03:23
I mean, this is something you can pickplukke up and carrybære with you
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Det er noget du kan samle op
og tage med dig
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anywhereoveralt you go.
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overalt du går.
03:28
So I'll leaveforlade you with one of the mostmest compellingoverbevisende factsfakta
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Jeg vil efterlade jeg med en af de
mest overbevisende fakta
03:31
about this technologyteknologi and these kindsformer of vehicleskøretøjer.
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om denne teknologi og
disse slags køretøjer.
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This usesanvendelser 20 timesgange lessmindre energyenergi
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Det bruger 20 gange mindre energi
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for everyhver milemil or kilometerkilometer that you travelrejse than a carbil,
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for hver mil eller kilometer,
som du rejser i bil,
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whichhvilken meansmidler not only is this thing fasthurtig to chargeoplade
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hvilket betyder, at det ikke kun
er hurtigt at oplade
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and really cheapbillig to buildbygge,
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og meget billigt at bygge,
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but it alsoogså reducesreducerer the footprintfodspor of your energyenergi use
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men det formindsker også det fodspor
af dit energi forbrug
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in termsbetingelser of your transportationtransport.
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i form af din transport.
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So insteadi stedet of looking at largestor amountsmængder of energyenergi neededhavde brug for
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I stedet for at se på store mængder
af energi der bruges
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for eachhver personperson in this roomværelse to get around in a cityby,
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for hver enkelt af jer i dette rum,
skulle komme rundt i byen,
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now you can look at much smallermindre amountsmængder
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ser I nu på en meget mindre mængde
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and more sustainablebæredygtig transportationtransport.
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og mere bæredygtigt transportmiddel.
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So nextNæste time you think about a vehiclekøretøj,
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Næste gang I tænker køretøj,
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I hopehåber, like us, you're thinkingtænker about something newny.
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håber jeg, ligesom os, at i tænker
på noget nyt.
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Thank you.
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Tak.
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(ApplauseBifald)
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Translated by Simon Djernæs
Reviewed by Anders Finn Jørgensen

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sanjay Dastoor - Roboticist
Sanjay Dastoor is the co-founder of Boosted Boards, a startup that aims to build the world's lightest electric vehicles.

Why you should listen

Sanjay Dastoor met pals John Ulmen and Matthew Tran while studying engineering at Stanford University, where the three often found themselves talking about the need for a better way to get around campus. So they created one -- an electric longboard which they call Boosted Boards. The CEO of this Silicon Valley startup, which raised nearly a half million in crowdsourced funding through Kickstarter, Dastoor hopes to provide a new way to commute for those who live within a six-mile radius of work.

With his co-founders at Boosted, Dastoor participated in the Y Combinator and StartX incubator programs. He is finishing his PhD on bio-inspired robotics at Stanford, and he holds a MS from Stanford and a BS from UC Berkeley. He has also worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and SRI International.

More profile about the speaker
Sanjay Dastoor | Speaker | TED.com

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