Chronicling Robots Since 2011
The man with the jackhammer looked back seeing his power to stop traffic for nearly thirty minutes, and proudly smiled. “Can’t they do this at five in the morning?,” my exacerbated Uber driver complained to me. I thought about for a second, and replied, “Why do they (humans) have to do it at all?” My view was further validated … Read more
Drones are everywhere today, from disrupting flights at JFK to filming your neighbors’ next reality TV segment. Like us, the eagle in the video below has had enough of annoying pilots giving robots a bad name… All kidding aside, I marvel at the creativity of some drone applications from agricultural “bot-swarms” to autonomous UAVs for water management. … Read more
Today is Superbowl Sunday and the world is waiting at baited breath to see the outcome of deflategate. In other news, a drunk drone operator crashed his UAV into the White House. This is bad news for the robot industry as parnoia is sure to spread across the capital. Now, the new drone “villain” is … Read more
One of my favorite scenes in Blazing Saddles is when Cleavon Little is riding into town to become the new Sheriff of Rockridge. In many ways that movie broke down racial barriers through its comedic genius. The question I ask today, is if we need a movie to make the police and citizens trust robots. … Read more