Chronicling Robots Since 2011
This past Tuesday, Suki Bagel, a 12 week old Border Collie arrived in our house. Suki was so excited to be united with her new family that she peed on our kitchen floor. Seeing my disappointment, my wife retorted, “what do you expect, she’s not a robot?” I replied that AIBO never peed. As our lives are quickly … Read more
Earlier this week, Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak suggested that Robots will make humans their pets, as he has no doubt artificial intelligence will take over the world. His paranoia comes on the heels of warnings by Elon Musk and Steven Hawking. Human pets? Just the contrary, robots are now our service dogs. This week in … Read more
We have already outsourced our chores to Roomba, but MIT’s Cynthia Breazeal suggests we need to hire robotic-nanny. I have 5 kids and a 90 lb. dog squeezed into our ever shrinking Manhattan apartment, do I have room for another robot? To answer this we need to look closely at Ms. Breazeal’s unveiling of “the world’s … Read more