Chronicling Robots Since 2011
Last week, I ventured to wonder who would win in a battle of the bots – NASA’s Valkyrie or Boston Dynamics’s ATLAS. I think Google just weighed in with the answer. Google’s acquisition of BD is probably the biggest deal to hit the Robot Industry since Amazon’s purchase of Kiva systems last March. Astute observers … Read more
Earlier today I was speaking with a mother outside my child’s school about her elderly parents. This woman began to tell me that her father is in a substandard home, because it was the closest within walking distance to her mother (who can’t drive). I immediately thought about Sergey Brin’s claim that a driverless car … Read more
I remember my first car show, I was eight and the women in cocktail dresses were giants with heavy machines in my eyes. The dream of getting behind the wheel of a hot Corvette was more than fantasy, it was my goal. Growing up in Manhattan, we never drove cars and all I wanted to … Read more