ABB: A Waking Tiger
Recently, at RoboUniverse, one of the largest suppliers of industrial robots was noticeably absent, ABB. This powerhouse of automation that ...
Tag: Cool Tech
Autonomous Boats By 2020
My twitter feed was abuzz with news of a Russian spy boat miles off the coast of Connecticut’s US Naval Submarine Base in ...
Investing In The Robotics Sector
Recently, I got flak from one reader for broaching the subject of ethics and robotics. Later, I was pleased to learn about ...
Famous Robots and the Rise of Speech Technology
It’s no coincidence that the list of 100 greatest robot movies of all time consists mainly of movies during or ...
Climate Change and Robotics
Recently, scientists reported that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a record set only a ...
CES 2017: Report From The Show Floor
A CES 2017 report from Oliver Mitchell of Autonomy Ventures.
2016: The Year of Drones, Cars, Bots (and Less Jobs…)
Oliver Mitchell takes a look at what trends defined cool technology in 2016.
The Roboticist’s Moral Imperative
It is time to address the elephant in the room — jobs. First, I must confess that I was wrong to casually ...
The Age of Possibility
At our #RobotLabNYC MeetUp recently, Stephen Gorevan shared with a hushed audience of 60 plus people how Col. John Glenn’s orbit of ...
Driverless Everything, Except Cars
As we prepare for the busiest travel days of the year, it is time to reflect on how far transportation ...