"How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics"
I saw the headline and immediately knew what toy it was talking about. I inherited one from an older brother and spent hours just making it do things with the two joy sticks.
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Q&A with Peter Barrett about Robotics
I think the first two questions are fantastic and on the nose. Peter Barrett is a Palo Alto Venture Capital investor.
TC: What was the biggest robotics story of 2022?
PB: The Great Autonomous Vehicle Capitulation. Ford and VW abandoning robotaxis are another indication that autonomous vehicles are decades from ubiquity. Autonomous vehicles may be inevitable, but they are certainly not imminent despite lots of very clever people and eye-watering amounts of capital pouring into the domain.
We have had autonomous vehicles driven by neural networks since the ’80s. I think we are about halfway there.
The good news is that in the interim, we do have a mature technology that improves traffic 30% and reduces fatalities at intersections by 90%. It is called a roundabout.
What are your biggest robotics predictions for 2023?
The biggest trend in 2023 will be the realization that robots are best used to amplify people rather than replacing them. Robots as collaborators that work for people in human environments is the best way of exploiting the unique capabilities of both.
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South Korea has a driverless bus route
Sounds like it is a fairly simple circle route, but still curious to see how this does.
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Tesla is working on a bi-pedal robot and it's due out "soon"
I'll believe it when I see it. As a friend reminded on social media, Elon has been saying full AI driving has been coming "soon" for six years.
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Killer drone 'hunted down a human target' without being told to
No one should be surprised by this.
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