Chronicling Robots Since 2011
Last week, I got flak from one reader for broaching the subject of ethics and robotics. This week, I was pleased to learn about Clearpath’s $11 million in financing for developing new “ethical” robots. According to the press release issued by the company, the majority of the funding will be applied to R&D to expand into new applications … Read more
RobotRabbi Baxter articles: http://robotrabbi.com/?p=1858 and http://robotrabbi.com/?p=1665 Honorable mentions: The Driverless Car and Esko Bionics.
The big factor in robotics is liability. When one thinks of the evolution of the distribution of robotic hardware it is easy to see how deployments in the military and medical theater are the forerunners for business and home use. Rodney Brooks has been an innovator of home robotics since his days of founding iRobot, … Read more
Sometimes it is what people say that is so profound vs. their inventions. In the video below iRobot founder, Rodney Brooks, makes a salient point that just like personal computing in the next two decades robots will be everywhere. You may recall that computers pre-Gates/Jobs were in a locked room that only a select few … Read more