The year is 2040. It’s the age of super-intelligent AI — robots with intelligence well beyond human. Ann finds herself in charge of an old-fashioned warehouse, with shelves, conveyors, and other equipment, with lots of humans working. Ann’s mission is modernization — to bring the warehouse up to date. She doesn’t know how to do […]
The forebot and the buttlebot Read Post »
Prologue One morning, a parable landed in my head, and I wrote it down. I’m not sure what to do with it. So I’m posting it. The issue is humanoid robots, and the debate between two groups we will call the anthropophiles and the technophiles. The anthropophiles believe that robots should look like humans. They
The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable Read Post »
My goal with this blog is to find the coolest and funnest ideas in robotics, and to have fun with them. It’s a big job, I don’t know if I’m up to it, but it’ll be fun to try, and I hope it’ll be fun to read. Even better, I hope readers will join in
The funnest ideas in robotics Read Post »