Last year, we wrote about Clockwork, a company that was working on a robot manicurist. Other companies were racing toward market readiness at the same time, but now we see that Clockwork has outflanked the others and gotten their robot manicurists into Target. Would you let a robot do your nails? The robot manicurists don’t... […]
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov established a set of rules known as The Three Laws of Robotics. A robot may not hurt a human, or allow a human to be harmed A robot must obey human given orders, except when those orders would violate the first law. A robot must protect its existence, except when... […]
Indramat made some of the best motion control systems on the planet, but they were acquired in the 20th century by Rexroth, and they no longer exist as a separate company. Indramat now is basically the electrical drive and control division of Bosch Rexroth. This means that you can’t exactly drive up to the... […]