Chronicling Robots Since 2011
As I write this post, one of the greatest sports competitions is taking place on Pebble Beach – The US Masters PGA Golf Tournament. However, as we dig deeper into AI and Robotics, one has to wonder about the longevity events. Chess masters have been belittled for over 20 years since Deep Blue first beat Gary Kasparov in … Read more
Happy New Year! While I was on vacation, my son and I watched Will Smith’s thought provoking movie, Concussion. Football has by far the highest concussion rate of all youth and high school sports. According to the Brain Injury Research Institute, in any given season, 20% of high school football players sustain brain injuries (including my … Read more
Earlier this week, I took 30 venture professionals on a three day technology mission to Israel sponsored by the State of Israel’s Ministry of the Economy and the UJA Federation of New York (#ujatech). We met with the leaders of Israel’s tech scene, as well as many promising startups. Relevant to this blog, we spent a day … Read more
This week the biggest story in the robotic world was not Donald Trump’s misogyny, but Professors Kathleen Richardson’s and Erik Billing’s ban on sex robots. The academics claim that such robots “reinforces or reproduces existing gender inequalities.” As the most popular sci-fi movies, from Blade Runner to Ex Machina, have revolved around this fantasy it could be that Richardson … Read more