by Michael Belfiore | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog
Karl Castleton, head of Team Grit, the all-volunteer DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) contender out of Grand Junction, Colorado, sent me this photo of the team’s robot, Cog-Burn. The DRC Finals is going down this June 5-6 at Fairplex in Pomona, California....
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 29, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Like it or not, the drones are coming. Delivery services, construction and real estate companies, farmers, and of course photographers and filmmakers will all use them extensively—just as soon as government regulators clear the way. One of the technical challenges...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 28, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Failure is good. Failure, as I learn again and again from the technologists I report on, is how you get to the stuff that works. I had this idea I could make a gazillion dollars running my own blog. That may be true, but not by trying to pound out stories every day...