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.

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Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost

Sanjay Dastoor: Skateboard s pojačanjem

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Zamislite električno vozilo koje vas može odvesti na posao -- ili bilo gdje u krugu od 10 kilometara -- brzo, bez frustrirajuće gužve na cesti i bez goriva. Sad zamislite da to vozilo možete uzeti u ruke i nositi ga sa sobom. Da, ovaj preuređeni skateboard bi mogao promijeniti jutarnje odlaske na posao.
- Roboticist
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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TodayDanas I'm going to showpokazati you an electricelektrični vehiclevozilo
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Danas ću vam pokazati električno vozilo
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that weighsteži lessmanje than a bicyclebicikl,
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koje teži manje od bicikla,
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that you can carrynositi with you anywherebilo kuda,
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koje možete svugdje nositi sa sobom,
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that you can chargenaplatiti off a normalnormalan wallzid outletispust in 15 minutesminuta,
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koje možete napuniti na običnoj
zidnoj utičnici za 15 minuta
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and you can runtrčanje it for 1,000 kilometerskilometara
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i koje možete voziti 1000 km
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on about a dollardolar of electricityelektricitet.
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za 6 kuna struje.
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But when I say the wordriječ electricelektrični vehiclevozilo,
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Ali kad kažem ''električno vozilo'',
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people think about vehiclesvozila. They think about carsautomobili
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ljudi pomisle na vozila. Pomisle na aute,
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and motorcyclesmotocikli and bicyclesbicikli, and the vehiclesvozila that you use everysvaki day.
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motore, bicikle i ostala vozila
koja svakodnevno koriste.
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But if you come about it from a differentdrugačiji perspectiveperspektiva,
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Međutim, pristupajući situaciji iz druge perspektive
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you can createstvoriti some more interestingzanimljiv,
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moguće je stvoriti nešto zanimljivije,
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more novelroman conceptspojmovi.
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jedan novi koncept.
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So we builtizgrađen something.
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Tako smo i mi nešto stvorili.
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I've got some of the pieceskomada in my pocketdžep here.
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Imam neke od dijelova u svom džepu.
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So this is the motormotor.
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Dakle, ovo je motor.
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This motormotor has enoughdovoljno powervlast to take you
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Dovoljno je snažan da vas odveze
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up the hillsbrda of SanSan FranciscoFrancisco at about 20 milesmilja perpo hoursat,
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uzbrdo u San Franciscu brzinom
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about 30 kilometerskilometara an hoursat,
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od oko 30km/h.
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and this batterybaterija, this batterybaterija right here
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Ova baterija
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has about sixšest milesmilja of rangeopseg, or 10 kilometerskilometara,
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drži oko 10 kilometara,
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whichkoji is enoughdovoljno to coverpokriti about halfpola of the carautomobil tripsputovanja
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što je dovoljno da pokrije
oko pola vožnji automobilom
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in the U.S. alonesam.
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samo u SAD-u.
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But the bestnajbolje partdio about these componentskomponente
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Najbolje je što smo ove dijelove
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is that we boughtkupio them at a toyigračka storedućan.
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kupili u trgovini dječjih igračaka.
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These are from remotedaljinski controlkontrolirati airplanesavioni.
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Ovo su dijelovi zrakoplova
na daljinsko upravljanje.
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And the performanceizvođenje of these things has gottendobivši so good
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Njihova izvedba toliko se poboljšala da,
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that if you think about vehiclesvozila a little bitbit differentlyrazličito,
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ako razmišljate o vozilima
na malo drukčiji način,
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you can really changepromijeniti things.
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uistinu možete nešto promijeniti.
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So todaydanas we're going to showpokazati you one exampleprimjer
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Danas ćemo vam pokazati jedan način
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of how you can use this.
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primjene ovih dijelova.
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PayPlatiti attentionpažnja to not only how funzabava this thing is,
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Obratite pozornost na to
da ovo nije samo zabavno,
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but alsotakođer how the portabilityprenosivost that comesdolazi with this
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već i na činjenicu da je lako prenosivo
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can totallypotpuno changepromijeniti the way you interactinterakcija with a cityGrad like SanSan FranciscoFrancisco.
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što može u potpunosti promijeniti način na koji
dolazimo u doticaj s gradom poput San Francisca.
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(MusicGlazba)
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(Glazba)
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[6 MileMilje RangeRaspon] [TopVrh SpeedBrzina NearU blizini 20mphmph]
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[Doseg od 10km]
[Maksimalna brzina do 30km/h]
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[UphillUzbrdo ClimbingPenjanje]
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[Vožnja uzbrdo]
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[RegenerativeRegenerativne BrakingKočenje]
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[Regenerativno kočenje]
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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(CheersKlicati)
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(Uzvici)
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So we're going to showpokazati you what this thing can do.
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Pokazat ćemo vam što ova stvar može raditi.
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It's really maneuverableupravljiv. You have a hand-heldručni remotedaljinski,
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Lako se upravlja njime.
Postoji ručni upravljač
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so you can prettyprilično easilylako controlkontrolirati accelerationubrzanje, brakingkočenje,
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pa se lako upravlja ubrzanjem i kočenjem,
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go in reversepreokrenuti if you like, alsotakođer have brakingkočenje.
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možete ići i u rikverc; i tu postoje kočnice.
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It's incrediblenevjerojatan just how lightsvjetlo this thing is.
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Nevjerojatno je koliko je ovo lagano.
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I mean, this is something you can pickodabrati up and carrynositi with you
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Ovo je nešto što možete podići i nositi sa sobom
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anywherebilo kuda you go.
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kamo god idete.
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So I'll leavenapustiti you with one of the mostnajviše compellinguvjerljiv factsčinjenicama
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Za kraj moram napomenuti jednu
od najfascinantnijih činjenica
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about this technologytehnologija and these kindsvrste of vehiclesvozila.
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u vezi ove tehnologije i ove vrste vozila.
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This usesnamjene 20 timesputa lessmanje energyenergija
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Koristi 20 puta manje energije
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for everysvaki milemilja or kilometerkilometar that you travelputovati than a carautomobil,
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za svaki kilometar koji prijeđete nego auto.
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whichkoji meanssredstva not only is this thing fastbrzo to chargenaplatiti
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To znači da se brzo puni,
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and really cheapjeftino to buildizgraditi,
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jeftino je za napraviti,
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but it alsotakođer reducessmanjuje the footprintotisak stopala of your energyenergija use
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a usto smanjuje i potrošnju energije
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in termsUvjeti of your transportationtransport.
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što se tiče prijevoza.
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So insteadumjesto of looking at largeveliki amountsiznosi of energyenergija neededpotreban
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Dakle, umjesto da razmatramo
ogromne količine energije koje su potrebne
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for eachsvaki personosoba in this roomsoba to get around in a cityGrad,
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za svakog pojedinca u ovoj
prostoriji da bi se kretao kroz grad,
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now you can look at much smallermanji amountsiznosi
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sad postoji opcija manje količine energije
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and more sustainableodrživ transportationtransport.
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te ekološki osviještenijeg prijevoza.
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So nextSljedeći time you think about a vehiclevozilo,
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Sljedeći put kad budete razmišljali o vozilu,
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I hopenada, like us, you're thinkingmišljenje about something newnovi.
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nadamo se da ćete, poput nas, zamišljati nešto novo.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Ana Šperkov
Reviewed by Suzana Barić

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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