by Michael Belfiore | 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....
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 22, 2013 | Articles, Blog
Check out the wrap-up video Mark Greene and I made at the DARPA Robotics’ Challenge final day yesterday: You can also read my report, posted today on Gizmodo, with final team standings and a hints of what’s next....
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 13, 2013 | Articles, Blog
The December issue of Foreign Policy, the so-called Global Thinkers issue, has my commentary on Elon Musk and why he’s a bigger deal than Steve Jobs. You can read the story, “The Rocketeer,” at http://atfp.co/1bvOQIA. Meanwhile, over at Fortune...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 10, 2013 | Articles, Blog
Today in Washington, Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit that wants to send the first humans to Mars, held a press conference to announce its latest project: a unmanned Mars mission. This one is a lot less ambitious than the proposed $6b manned mission, and since it...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 22, 2013 | Articles, Blog
It’s one of those it’s-so-crazy-it-just-might-work kind of deals. Inspiration Mars, the non-profit organization planning a manned Mars flyby conceived by first space tourist Dennis Tito, has revealed the working details the mission. I wrote about the...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 7, 2013 | Articles, Blog
The November issue of Air & Space Smithsonian has my feature story on XCOR Aerospace and its Lynx suborbital spaceship in the making. I’d been angling for a feature on XCOR, somewhere, for years. The company is one of the unsung success stories of the...
