Aeon Magazine: The robots are coming

by | Mar 12, 2014 | Articles, Blog

Aeon Magazine published my extended essay on humanoid robots today. At 3.7k words, it’s feature length, and enough room for me to go into depth about the state of the art of these machines that are poised to invade our lives, and what the future holds for them....

Landing legs on SpaceX’s next mission

by | Feb 25, 2014 | Blog

Back in November, following SpaceX’s first launch of a geostationary satellite, CEO Elon Musk said in a call with reporters that his company would attempt to bring back the first stage booster rocket on its next International Space Station supply mission. SpaceX...

Is Google the civilian DARPA?

by | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog

I’ve just filed an extended essay on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials for the new online magazine Aeon. Check out the mag if you haven’t seen it yet: www.aeonmagazine.com. It runs a feature-length essay by an established writer daily, on a wide...