December Update If you are not reading The Robot Report (and you should be; it’s one of the best things on the web about the robotic industry), you may have missed their article about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Much of what it says will not be news to the readers of this blog, but one […]
The Army has just finished its second Network Integration Evaluation (NIE). This large exercise appears to have accomplished its primary goals of accelerating the notoriously slow acquisition process, field-testing entire networks, and gathering valuable end-user feedback. Sometime massive bureaucratic efforts do work. Although complete tactical communication systems were tested, the smartphones were the center of […]
Should robots walk or roll? While the answer to this question is obvious for certain applications, it has implications for the entire robot industry, and society as a whole. Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, has seen the future of robots, and they aren’t walking. In an interview with Pilots Presence (reprinted in IEEE Spectrum), Angle […]
