NEVER-SATISFIED CURIOSITY
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166 innovation . “ Innovation is a team sport , and it ’ s everybody ’ s job ,” said Rob Shaddock , former CTO and Lu ’ s boss at the time . Teams participating in RoboCup use vision-guided robots to improve TE production processes and provide significant ROI . Lu ’ s AMT team runs robotics courses for the participating team members , training them in working with new applications such as collaborative robotics . The first competition took place in 2012 and it has run annually ever since .
NEVER-SATISFIED CURIOSITY
One of Lu ’ s great strengths is his desire to learn . Since bagging his first degree in 1985 at Taiwan he gained four more advanced degrees from American universities including a doctorate in industrial engineering . There ’ s continuity from his work at the Boeing Company , where he worked for over 13 years , and his present role in that they both involved manufacturing technology research and development – though the transition was not an
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