Get Ready For Humanoids
Memphis at 1 am is quite possibly the busiest airport without passengers on the globe. Touring the 880 acre FedEx facility,...
Ice-Bot Cometh: Building Self-Reliant Unmanned Systems
Last June, a massive dust storm engulfed Mars and immobilized the most famous robots in the galaxy, Opportunity and Curiosity. This...
Disney Launches New Era Of Autonomy With Gravity-Defying Stickmen And More
Ever since the première of “Steamboat Willie” in 1928, The Walt Disney Company has pushed the envelope of imagination. Mickey...
Disposable Robots Take Flight
Recently, I attended AeroVironment’s presentation of their contribution to NASA’s Mars Helicopter mission. The autonomous vertical-lift drone is remarkably capable of flying through the planet’s...
An Analysis Of Jibo: What Went Wrong?
Recently, RobotLab hosted its most thought-provoking panel yet, on The Future Of Work and Universal Basic Income. Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang presented his...
WAZE For Drones: Expanding The National Airspace
Sitting in New York City, looking up at the clear June skies, I wonder if I am staring at an...
New Battery Technology Is Accelerating Autonomy And Saving The Environment
If the robotics world had a celebrity it would be Spot Mini of Boston Dynamics. Last month at the Robotics Summit in...
The Latest Target For Automation: Window Washers
Three and half years ago, I stood on the corner of West Street and gasped as two window washers clung to...
A Chat with the Creator Of Aquanaut, The Shape-Shifting Subsea Robot
It has been two years since OceanOne, “the robotic mermaid,” first discovered the seventeenth century shipwreck La Lune, the prized frigate of...
The Legal Dilemma Of Intelligent Machines
Walking into XPONENTIAL 2018, I was dumbfounded by the keynote speech by Professor Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina....