By Chuck Smythe
I’m afraid I only know about robotics what I read in the science magazines (which don’t pay enough attention to applied technology) and articles like “How to Make America’s Robots Great Again” [Farhad Manjoo, NY Times, January 25], from which I share this excerpt:
A walk in the woods
By Chuck Smythe
Simply fascinating, the August 18 NY Times science article, “Atlas, a Humanoid Robot, Takes a Walk in the Woods,” by Katie Rogers. The best part of it is the set of videos near the end of the “DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015.” It’s about nine hours worth, much of it as lively as watching paint dry – but nevertheless extremely interesting as engineering, as drama, and as pop philosophy. I encourage readers to skip around and sample a few things to get the flavor.
