Chronicling Robots Since 2011
The first episode of Star Trek, The Menagerie, Captain Christopher Pike (not Kirk) lands on a distant planet and falls in love with a girl (Vina) that is captured by aliens that communicate telepathically. Pike attempts to rescue her, but quickly learns that her beauty is really only an illusion put on by the aliens. Later on in … Read more
http://live.wsj.com/public/page/embed-A85C0E05_0AB4_4B97_BF22_8C74B550C157.html I have always felt that a hundred years from now, anthropologists will look at our modern medicine with the same disgust as we look at Medieval blood letting practices. As a child in the doctor’s office, I was always squeamish about getting shots (which back then was every visit). Later on in life, I … Read more
When I was a teenager, I would sneak into my dorm’s common room (at midnight) to watch re-runs of Star Trek. Some how this corny show from the ’60’s transported me to the future where humans would cruise through space, beam up at will, and have blood-free surgeries. Accuray a manufacturer of radiation oncology systems … Read more
This week is turning out to be a banner week for robots. Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal front page article featured a story about Georgia Tech’s Robot Chicken Deboner (click to: see video). While that sounded tasty, I am compelled to tell you the story about “Snakes on Plane”, well almost, at least the robotic kind slithering … Read more