Happy Mooniversary to Apollo 11! An out of this world episode with tales of space, Earth, Middle-earth, machine learning, hospital-shortening games, and much more! Continue reading →
Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Robotics — tasty stories to whet your appetite for the rapidly advancing state of the art. Continue reading →
Baby, don’t hurt me. Or order things on my Amazon Echo when I don’t want them. Michael and Michael start off this episode talking about the South Park season premiere, which plays a prank on the viewers by the audio dialog of the show launching commands on the viewer’s voice controlled devices (such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home). I for one, welcome our new rockin’ robotic rockband overlords. And when you watch the video of Nigel Stanford’s Automatica, we think you will too. Michael and Michael wrap up this episode talking about the recently concluded NASA Cassini mission and … Continue reading →
Michael and Michael start this episode with big robots. As in extra huge robots. Like Mecha-sized robots. The articulation of the robot Jeff Bezos piloted was reminiscent of the one that the character Eileen Ripley piloted in the Aliens movies (see video above). Michael R was also reminded of the NASA Valkyrie robot, and it’s mission to go to Mars ahead of humans to set up the environment for human habitation. Walking on two legs, and being roughly human-sized, the form factor is well suited to ensuring that the habitat structure such robots would build would be on the … Continue reading →