The Int’l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference took place this week in Japan. I scoured the list of presentations and picked out robots I thought were the most interesting and impor… more →
Kristina Grifantinijdou wrote 3 weeks ago: “The Frankenstein of the French Revolution: Nogaret’s Automaton Tale of 1790,” is … more →
peedeel wrote 1 month ago: What do you fear most? Spiders, perhaps? Being confronted by a knife wielding nut job in a clown’s … more →
kgrifant wrote 2 months ago: The Int’l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) conference took place this week in Japan. I s … more →
kgrifant wrote 2 months ago: …and penguins, fish and more. While a veritable robotic animal kingdom exists, a lot of these … more →
jdou wrote 2 months ago: What author wrote a parable about an inventor named Frankenstein and his life-size artificial man? … more →
somegoodgames wrote 3 months ago: Kate Walker is a young lawyer visiting France to close the sale of a large manufacturing estate. B … more →
kgrifant wrote 3 months ago: Last week I wrote about the debut of two new robotic scientists, Adam and Eve, which are basically … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: The robot teacher Saya, which I mentioned at the beginning of the week, has since been picked up by … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: When I first read Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, I thought the profession of robopsychologist sounded like … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: I’m a sucker for robot cartoons. The Shoebox blog is featuring the work of Chris Grine, who is drawi … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: On Saturday, robots duked it out at the northeast regional robotics conference, hosted at Boston Uni … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: Japan is often the first place wacky, unusual robots debut. People I’ve talked to usually cite two r … more →
gatexgames wrote 4 months ago: Kate Walker has left behind her life as a high-stakes lawyer in New York City. She travels now acros … more →
kgrifant wrote 4 months ago: When I look for news stories, I come across a ton of robots in all sorts of forms. Roboticists have … more →
kgrifant wrote 5 months ago: Despite some of the very cool things robots can do, if they get stuck in the dirt or sand, all of th … more →
gatexgames wrote 5 months ago: Syberia puzzle Kate Walker is a young lawyer visiting France to close the sale of a large ma … more →
kgrifant wrote 5 months ago: A new institute funded by Google and NASA will train futurists to prepare for a supposed technologic … more →
kgrifant wrote 5 months ago: It’s an exciting time for the field of robotics, with new robots popping up in medicine, the m … more →
kgrifant wrote 5 months ago: Robotic soldiers are reshaping the face of the battlefield. While robots have been in the field for … more →