Disposable Robots Take Flight
Recently, I attended AeroVironment’s presentation of their contribution to NASA’s Mars Helicopter mission. The autonomous vertical-lift drone is remarkably capable of flying through the planet’s...
WAZE For Drones: Expanding The National Airspace
Sitting in New York City, looking up at the clear June skies, I wonder if I am staring at an...
New Battery Technology Is Accelerating Autonomy And Saving The Environment
If the robotics world had a celebrity it would be Spot Mini of Boston Dynamics. Last month at the Robotics Summit in...
The Latest Target For Automation: Window Washers
Three and half years ago, I stood on the corner of West Street and gasped as two window washers clung to...
The Legal Dilemma Of Intelligent Machines
Walking into XPONENTIAL 2018, I was dumbfounded by the keynote speech by Professor Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina....
Robots Saving Retail From An Apocalypse
The lights are going out at malls across the United States with more than 20 major retail bankruptcies in 2017....
Drones As First Responders
In a basement of New York University in 2013, Dr. Sergei Lupashin wowed the room of one hundred leading technology...
Lessons Learned When Robots Fail
Pundits are already speculating that the fatal crash by Uber’s autonomous taxi will set the driverless car industry back decades....
SXSW 2018: Protect AI, Robots, Cars (And Us) From Bias
As Mark Hamill humorously shared the behind-the-scenes of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” with a packed SXSW audience, two floors below on...
Can Technology Help Stop Gun Violence?
Pardon the departure from robotics, but I feel it necessary to raise awareness of a very human problem. For the...