Seeing Facebook’s CEO summoned to Washington as a consequence of the improperly accessed the personal data of about 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica will be remembered as a powerful defining…

In the movie Memento, former insurance investigator Leonard Shelby tracks down the criminal who attacked him and murdered his wife. Leonard, though, is not a “normal” guy. He has to deal…

A few nights ago, I came across an article titled “Chinese AI isn’t beating the U.S. yet — and may never catch up”. The article makes the point that, despite…

In the movie The Terminator, machines take over the world and send a cyborg assassin back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose son, John, is poised…

NOTE: this article was published on Nov 6, 2018. Things really move fast, as this EE Times article from January 2018 portrays: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332877&_mc=sm_eet_editor_rickmerritt The basic assumptions of the article still…

There are three main ingredients needed for intelligent robots to be ubiquitous, smart, and useful. I like to call these three ingredients Mind, Brain, and Body. Let’s look at how…

Pause for a second and look outside your window at a bird, a squirrel, or even an insect. These organisms all perform complex tasks that involve perceiving food and threats,…

When designing robotic platforms, the choice of which sensors to employ is a key area that often determines the Go/No-Go for a final product. This is because the cost of…

(From BU Today) “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal…

The world has changed, and the protagonists of this change are small, agile, laser-focused startups that quickly innovate and deploy products in the market at a fraction of the cost…