Letter to a Young Woman in Engineering

We recently posted a job for a robotics engineer, which received over 200 applications. One of those was from a female mechatronics engineer with an impressive resume, who said something in her cover letter that undermined her capabilities. We’ve seen this many…

A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area

From pirates to prospectors to physicists and from poets to pranksters to programmers, the Bay Area is a magnet for mavericks impatient to reinvent the…

2 exercises to understand Robot Operating System without writing any code

American law needs a reboot when it comes to robots

Nearly 60 years of American case law indicate that while robot technology has been developing by leaps and bounds, the courts’ concept of robots is…

Looking towards service robotics in 2017

Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all…

12 Startups in computer vision or visual AI

Vote for Audience Choice Award of best vision startup! On May 15 2020, these 12…

The Race For Robot Clairvoyance

This week a Harvard Business School student challenged me to name a startup capable of producing an…