Snake Robots Slither Into Our Hearts, Literally
The biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden describes how the snake became the most cursed of all beasts: “you...
Trusting Robots With Our Lives
The key takeaway from the recent RobotLabNYC forum, on “Exploring The Autonomous Future,” was humans are the key to robot adoption. Dr....
Making Pepper Walk: Understanding Softbank’s Purchase of Boston Dynamics
It is unclear if Masayoshi Son, Chairman of Softbank, was one of the 17 million YouTube viewers of Boston Dynamic’s Big...
The Uncanny Valley Of Human-Robot Interactions
The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the...
What Has Twenty Years Of RoboCup Taught Us?
In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated...
Drones Land Back To Earth At Xponential 2017
JD Claridge’s story epitomizes the current state of the drone industry. Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being...
An AI Primer For Mechatronics
Recently, I attended an “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roundtable” of leading scientists, entrepreneurs and venture investors. As the discussion focused mainly on basic...
NASA Spinoffs: Bringing Space Down To Earth
In a time of “America First” the benefits of space travel are clouded by the smoke of hyperbole. In reality,...
Welcome to the Age of Garage Robotics
Recently, Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz published a blog post about his most recent investment in Comma.ai, a new AI/autonomous...
The Startup Launch Pad Blasts Off At Automate 2017
What does Magic Johnson and a twenty foot robot have in common? You guessed it, Automate 2017. While this might...