Stuart Lawrence
Founder, CEO & President of Titan Robotics, Inc., a Pittsburgh laser-coating-removal and industrial robotics company spun out of Carnegie Mellon / Air Force Research Lab work.
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Oct 12, 2026
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
Yeah, aerospace is a difficult place, especially from, like you're saying, the exact qualifications that you have to go through.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
And it's one of the things that also a lesson that we learned in aerospace, once it gets qualified, it's not changing unless there's a problem that you can't.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
So where we would go after certain work that we thought, oh, we have this new way of doing this.
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Here's Stuart Lawrence on what happens when the big opportunity stalls and you have to find your next move.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
But since then, an interesting story in Titan where that's where we started, right? Focus.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
And that's at Carnegie Mellon, working with AFRL, who funded the program originally.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
But they had all these other applications they wanted to do, which we also thought were interesting.
Stuart LawrenceGUEST
And they sold me on working on the project going beyond just laser coating removal.