by Michael Belfiore | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog
Carnegie Mellon University has opened voting on this year’s Robot Hall of Fame inductees to the public. Hit https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RHoFPublic to see the nominations and vote on your favorites in four categories: Education & Consumer; Entertainment;...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 16, 2012 | Articles, Blog
When I got the call from a new company called Planetary Resources about their mad scheme to mine asteroids, I pitched it immediately to my editors at Popular Mechanics. The rapid-fire response: “Hell yes!” I banged out a and a short Tech Watch piece that...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
As William Gibson has famously said, “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” Three dimensional printing, in which parts can be formed, one layer at a time, from a fast-setting plastic, takes us a step closer toward distributing at...
