Chronicling Robots Since 2011
Dust off your white linens, as the summer season begins today. Yes, the traffic on the LIE is already backed up for miles and the beach is ready for its bathers. However, it is not Jaws patrolling the waters, but his mechanical cousins, RoboTrout. While we are all familiar with the European debt crisis, what … Read more
My first Chinese factory visit was an eye opener. I naively imagined that the entire plant would be automated, but instead almost every operation was done by hand. I realized at that moment that the natural evolution of modern economies, like China, is that labor sets the way for machines. Labor starts off being very … Read more
Sometimes it is what people say that is so profound vs. their inventions. In the video below iRobot founder, Rodney Brooks, makes a salient point that just like personal computing in the next two decades robots will be everywhere. You may recall that computers pre-Gates/Jobs were in a locked room that only a select few … Read more
Last week, a fifteen year old boy at my daughter’s high school was hit by a car. The shock of the accident reverberated throughout the Upper West Side community and made me think of the frailty of mankind, especially when hit with head and neck injuries. Life can change on a dime. The confinement of … Read more