Chronicling Robots Since 2011
While speaking with an innovative robotic company this week, I concluded it takes a lot of humans to sell just one robot. The employment around robotics was further validated by Sunday’s WSJ article about Uber poaching scientists from Carnegie Mellon University. While there will be job fallout, robots in the long run will open up the field to new … Read more
Everyone wants superpowers, but only a few are born with extraordinary abilities. Usain Bolt’s speed (as indicated by his last name) is as close as we have to going as fast as a cheetah. Well, that was true up until this week. Now researchers at MIT have built a robotic cheetah that outpaces even the … 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
Earlier this week, I was listening to Johnny Cash’s song, John Henry. Cash’s lyrics rang loud, “did the Lord say that machines oughtta take the place of livin’? …Do engines get rewarded for their steam?” Obviously, this is a major ethical debate in robotics, when machines replace the meager tasks of man. As Howard Schultz of … Read more